152 SUCCESS WITH SMALL FRUITS. 



and can take two or three crops of plants from the same 

 area m one season. 



While the growhig of strawberry plants may be very 

 profitable, it must be expensive, since large areas must be 

 laboriously weeded by hand several times in the season. 

 Instead of keeping the spaces between the rows clear, for 

 the use of horse-power, it is our aim to have them covered 

 as soon as possible with runners and young plants. The 

 Golden Defiance, Crescent Seedling and a few others will 

 keep pace with most weeds, and even master them ; but 

 nearly all varieties require much help in the unequal fight, 

 or our beds become melancholy examples of the survival of 

 the unfittest. 



