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to whitish coloured roots. If it has black 

 roots, it is not a new freshly produced plant, 

 but is an old plant. These old ones are not 

 as desirable to set out, as larger and bet- 

 ter fruit is produced on younger plants. 



There has been much talk about the pot- 

 grown plants which are advertised for sale 

 in the late summer or early fall. These can 

 be easily grown by filling with good soil and 

 sinking a two or three inch pot into the ground 

 just under the joint in the runner where the 

 new plant is to develop. When the new 

 plants have produced a sufficient number 

 of roots, so that the pots contain a com- 

 pact mass or ball, the runners are care- 

 fully severed and the pots with the plants 

 are lifted and are ready to sell. 



They may be sent to the purchaser with 

 the pot, or the pots may be removed and 

 each plant rolled separately in a piece of 

 paper, generally a newspaper, or may be 

 packed in boxes and shipped without wrap- 

 ping. One hundred plants, pot-grown, cost 

 without pots, about $3, or 50 cents a dozen. 



The cost of these plants is, of course, more 

 than for the spring or fall dug plants, owing 

 to the labour involved and the fact that 



