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not know that they have been moved, but continue 

 to thrive without wilting a leaf. If such transplant- 

 ing is done immediatelyafter a soaking rain, the soil 

 will cling to the roots so tenaciously as to insure a 

 transfer that will not cause any check of growth. 

 But it is not necessary to wait for rain. At five in 

 the afternoon soak with water the ground in which 

 the young plants are standing, and by six o'clock 

 you can take up the plants with their roots encased 

 in clinging earth, just as successfully as after a 

 rain. Plants thus transferred, and watered after 

 being set out, will not wilt, although the ther- 

 mometer is in the nineties the following day. If 

 young plants are scarce, take up the strongest and 

 best-rooted ones, and leave the runner attached; 

 set out such plants with their balls of earth four 

 feet apart in the row, and with a lump of earth 

 fasten down the runners along the line. Within a 

 month these runners will fill up the new rows as 

 closely as desirable. Then all propagation in the 

 new beds should be checked, and the plants com- 

 pelled to develop for fruiting in the coming season. 

 In this latitude a plant thus transferred in July or 

 August will bear a very good crop the following 

 June, and the berries will probably be larger than in 

 the following years. This tendency to produce very 

 large fruit is characteristic of young plants set out 

 in summer. It thus may be seen that plants set in 



