CHAPTER IX 

 Propagation, Breeding 



The strawberry is one of the easiest plants 

 to propagate; in fact, nature has arranged 

 for the production of offspring from the 

 plants. There are two ways by which the 

 plant is propagated that are worthy of 

 consideration: 



1. By seeds. 



2. By runners (or rather, new plants 

 produced at certain points on the runners). 



The first process is the one that is so 

 common among our wild strawberries, where 

 the fruit matures and the seed drops to the 

 ground, there being partly covered up and 

 either germinating that summer; or, if the 

 conditions are not right, it may lay over 

 until the opening of spring the following 

 year. Man has stepped in and used this 

 seed method of propagation for the produc- 

 tion of new varieties. 



