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rolled with a heavy roller. The surface of the bed is then 

 ' (Covered by clean s.traw .or hay free from seed until the tiny 

 plants begin to make their appearance, which will be in 

 ^bout six weeks. 



There is nothing now to do to the bed except to keep 

 the surface from drying out and the weeds pulled until the 

 plants get three or four true leaves or are one to two inches 

 tall. They should then be dug up with a trowel and tips of 

 the roots trimmed off and transplanted into rows one foot 

 apart and three or four inches apart in a row. When the 

 plants begin to crowd and the roots come near the surface, 

 they are again lifted from the rows and set out this time 

 with a ball of earth attached into rows two feet apart an<l 

 plants one foot apart in a row. 



Cultivation should now be deep so as to force deep root- 

 ing and away from the surface. From this time on the care 

 is the same as for any variety planted in hills. 



My first eighteen hundred plants were treated as above 

 except that they were again taken up late in the fall and 

 given four feet each way to allow for runner formation or 

 layering in pots. 



As the plants begin to develop during the following 

 spring, one should note the size, shape and color of the leaf 

 and its freedom from disease, and whether the plant is low 

 and spreading or tall and upright, and whether it makes 

 many crowns. 



As the first stems develop one should note whether they 

 are long or short, stout or slender, whether they remain 

 covered by the foliage or project above it. 



As the blossoms appear one should note whether there 

 are few or many on a stem, whether they are staminate or 

 pistilate, and if staminate whether blossom is large with an 

 abundance of pollen, or small with only a small amount of 

 pollen. 



As the fruit develops one should note the size, shape 

 and color of the berry, whether the color of surface and pulp 

 are the same — color and size of the seeds, and whether prom- 



