32 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



After the plants are set in rows which are 

 three to three and a half feet apart, with the 

 plants from eighteen to thirty inches apart in 

 the row, the runners are allowed to have full 

 swing and develop as many plants as they 

 will. 



In cultivating, the machine is only run in 

 one direction, and as the plants spread the 

 cultivated space narrows until twelve or 

 fifteen inches at its greatest width. 



The greatest drawback to this system is 

 that many great plant-producing straw- 

 berries are allowed to set their plants too 

 close together, resulting in a somewhat smaller 

 crop and quite small fruit, which of course 

 will not bring the highest price in the market, 

 and also costing more in time and money to 

 pick. Careful attention to the proper thin- 

 ning of the plants in too heavily set matted 

 rows will obviate this drawback. 



Single-hedge row. — ^This method is quite 

 well adapted to a more intensive system of 

 strawberry growing. The main idea is to 

 set out the plants in rows two to three feet 

 apart, the plants being twenty to thirty 

 inches apart in the row. Each plant is 

 allowed to produce two runners, and one 



