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be plenty of humus in this soil, and enough 

 plant food to grow the plants properly as 

 well as to produce a full crop of juicy fruit. 

 It is of particular importance that the ques- 

 tion of moisture have very careful con- 

 sideration, as at the season of this plant's 

 blossoming and subsequent fruiting it is oft- 

 times quite dry. If necessary, some form of 

 irrigation, as spoken of in another chapter, 

 should be practised. 



PLANTING 



The planting of the fall-bearing straw- 

 berries does not differ materially from that 

 of the more common varieties. Being, 

 however, a newer type, and in some cases 

 a test or experiment, it is advisable to 

 start carefully, and to follow a somewhat in- 

 tensive system of planting, such as the single 

 or double hedge-row method. These methods 

 are also suitable as these fall varieties do 

 not have a tendency to produce many plants. 



CULTURAL METHODS 



Clean culture and intensive work, the 

 methods considered in another chapter, 

 should be the system employed with these 



