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this way. All the great strawberry-growers all over the world 

 are practicing this or a similar plan, where they want extra-fine 

 fruit. If you mark the ground and put it out as above, your 

 plants will be just about two feet apart from center to center. 



Perhaps you may ask how to get these plants exactly on 

 this equilateral-triangle arrangement. In the cut you will see 

 three letters, A, B, C. These letters form an equilateral trian- 

 gle. Make it as large as your plot of ground will admit. Take 

 three strings of equal length ; stretch one of them on the first 

 row from right to left ; then stretch the other two so they will 

 meet at the point C. Now cut two sticks just 21 inches long, 

 or the distance between the marks made by your marker. Use 

 a stick at each end of the row to measure from the first string, 

 and stretch the string every time you put in a row of plants. 

 These rows are to be parallel, either with the line B C or A C. 

 Set a potted plant wherever the string crosses a furrow mark. 

 The cultivating is all to be done with the hand cultivator or 

 garden -plow pictured below. 



COLE'S GARDEN-PLOW. 



Price $4.50, with all the above attachments ; made by G. W. Cole, 

 Canton, 111. 



This plow has three teeth, as you will observe, and makes 

 three furrows. The dotted lines between the plants in the cut 

 are to represent these furrows. Run this cultivator through 

 the plants in three different directions, as I have indicated, say 

 as often as once a week; and be sure you run it once after every 

 shower when the ground in the beds is in the best state to pul. 



