34 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



The plants are set thirty inches apart in 

 the row, the rows three feet apart, allowing, 

 when the plants are grown, about one half 

 the space for the plants and one half for 

 clean culture. 



The hill system. — ^The most intensive sys- 

 tem of strawberry growing, in which the 

 plants are set from one foot apart each way, 

 to one foot apart in rows eighteen inches to 

 thirty inches apart, the plan being not to 

 allow any runners or new plants to set, but 

 permitting the plants to grow to great size, 

 believing that more and larger fruit of better 

 quality will result. 



A very good application of this system is 

 that carried on by a grower in New Jersey. 

 His beds are marked out four feet apart, with a 

 path between the beds one foot nine and three 

 fourth inches wide. These beds are of any 

 length desired. The plants are set out one 

 foot apart each way in the four-foot beds. 

 By planting at the edge of the bed, near the 

 path, there will be five rows of plants across 

 each bed. The number of plants required 

 for an acre is 33,795 or 1,940 plants for 

 a space 25 by 100 feet. His results have 

 been wonderfully great. His method has been 



