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take the plants, as they are old. The best 

 plants have Hght yellow, sometimes light 

 orange coloured roots, which denote that 

 the plant is young. If there is a good, well- 

 developed root system, so much the better. 

 The leaves should be light green, fresh 

 and new looking. 



PLANTING 



If the grower has used the furrow method 

 of marking out his strawberry bed there will 

 be very few tools needed to set the plants. 

 Some growers use a trowel to place the earth 

 around the plant, but for quickness and 

 efficiency of labour there is not a tool that 

 will equal the hand for this work. Follow- 

 ing this placing of the soil around the roots 

 of the plant, use the feet or the knees to firm 

 the soil. However, there is quite a large 

 amount of soil to replace in the furrow, and 

 this can best be done by horse tools, such as 

 the five or seven shovel toothed cultivator. 

 Almost every farm has these tools, so the 

 beginner would be put to no extra expense 

 for tools by following this method. 



The best tool to use in the case of planting 

 to the mark or line is the ordinary garden 



