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spring cannot produce a good crop of fruit under 

 about fourteen months, while others, set in sum- 

 mer, will yield in nine or ten months. I have set 

 out many acres in summer and early autumn with 

 the most satisfactory results. Thereafter the plants 

 were treated in precisely the same manner as those 

 set in spring. 



If the plants must be bought and transported 

 from a distance during hot weather, I should not 

 advise the purchase of any except those grown in 

 pots. Nurserymen have made us familiar with 

 pot-grown plants, for we fill our flower-beds with 

 them. In like manner strawberry plants are grown 

 and sold. Little pots, three inches across at the 

 top, are sunk in the earth along a strawberry row, 

 and the rnnners so fastened down that they take 

 root in these pots. In about two weeks the young 

 plant will fill a pot with roots. It may then be 

 severed from the parent, and transported almost 

 any distance, like a verbena. Usually the ball of 

 earth and roots is separated from the pot, and is 

 then wrapped in paper before being packed in the 

 shallow box employed for shipping purposes. A 

 nurseryman once distributed in a summer through- 

 out the country a hundred thousand plants of one 

 variety grown in this manner. The earth encasing 

 the roots sustained the plants during transpor- 

 tation and after setting sufficiently to prevent any 



