1932 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



Mr. Kcvitfs method is to set the ])Iaiits feet to the center row. This method of 



ill beds 4 feet wide and 20 to 25 feet long, setting requires 33,975 plants to the acre, 



five plants to the cross row, making a or 1,940 plants to each 25xl55-toot bed. In 



plant occupy one square foot of ground, this way plants do not choke each other, 



Runners are not permitted to grow, so nor do runners sap the strength of the 



that the whole strength of the plant is plant, which is allowed to develop a 



thrown into the production of fruit. Be- strong root and crown. Plants, instead of 



tween these beds paths IS inches wide are running out in two or three years, will 



run, and from these the picking is done, yield good crops for eight to ten years, 



necessitating a reach by the picker of two according to the originator. 



STKAWBEUIUKS I\ THE UNITED STATES 



The amount of acreage in the United States devoted to the growing of straw- 

 berries, as reported by the census of 1910, Is as follows: 



Scale — 1 mm^l.OOO acres. 



Maryland. 14,292. 



Tpnnessee, 12..")?.ii. 



New York, i'..:isj. 



Washington. .5.50,S. Coorgia , S90. 



Illinois. .'>.41ii. Oklah oma, 825. 



Ohio. t.T'";. South Carolina, 815. 



(■;ililoriii:i, 1 :.s:. Missis sippi, 772, 



Kenturky. 4.:i.ST. Vtah, 719. 



Pennsylvania. I.I.IC,. West. Virginia, 709. 



Louisiana. :!..".S7, Idaho, 698. 



Orf'gon, 2.1(11, Main e, 698. 



Iowa. L',:il7. Nebraska, 562. 



Wisfonsiii, 1' ^i;::. South Dakota, 419. 



Indiana. -,.'7 1 New Hampshire, 310. 



Texas, 2.1 1; I. Rhode Island, 281. 



.Massachusetts, 2 015. Vermont, 276. 



Minnesota. 1873. Montana, 2G5. 



Kansas 1 719 North Dakota, S3. 



^^■^^^^ New Mexico, 66. 



nonr|^343. Arizona, 58. 



Alabama. 1,167. Wyoming, 24. 



fonnwtlcut, 938. 



Nevada. 5. 



North Carolina, 1. 



