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your new bed from this kind of plants, you will have a nice 

 flower-bed next spring, plus the fruit. You practically gain one 

 season by this method. This first summer no weeds should be 

 tolerated, and the second season you will get a mammoth crop. 

 That should be the last of this plantation, because it is difficult 

 to keep down the weeds, and it is cheaper to make a new setting 

 every season, spading or plowing the old plantation under and 

 "rotating" with some other crop. 



Photo 122, Dogwood in Spring. 



If you cannot procure the potted plants, prepare the ground 

 and have it clean of weeds, as before suggested, but set your 

 plants in rows three feet apart, and plants in the row, fifteen 

 inches apart, as soon as the frost is out of the ground in spring 

 and it is dry enough to work. Let no weeds grow during the 

 season and cut off the main runners, and the next season you 

 will have a big crop. Some run them on for yet another season, 

 but it is almost impossible to control the weeds. 



In Photo 122 you have a glimpse of a very attractive "Dog- 



