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in the spring, will give quite a decent show of fruit the first 

 season. To the impatient amateur, a plant layered in a 

 pot is worth ten vines transplanted in the ordinary way. 

 One Western grower appreciates so highly the value of 

 pot plants that he raises them in large quantities for his 

 own use for planting by the acre. He finds that the extra 

 labor, which is not so very great when the work is reduced 

 to a system, is more than compensated by the excellence 

 of the plants, and by the fact that he can get a large and 

 certain crop in June from pot plants set in August or Sep- 

 tember. 



The Bush Alpine strawberries produce very few run- 

 ners, or none at all, and are propagated by dividing the 

 roots. The Alpine strawberries come true from seed, and 

 seedlings are usually grown to make new beds, instead of 

 transplanting from old ones. Of propagation by seed to 

 obtain new varieties I shall speak in a separate chapter. 



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