26 PROFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



experienced, it will be useful to show them all, as 

 it is quite as instructive to make clear what to 

 avoid as what to practice. The small figures, 

 (fig. 5), will permit of no excuse for rough, care- 

 less, and erroneous methods of inserting the plants. 

 The first (a) is sunk much too deeply, burying the 

 heart, and cannot grow. The second (6) is not 

 planted deeply enough, the neck or collar being 

 above ground, and the roots too straight down in 

 the hole. It will not make a strong, fruitful plant. 



Fig. 5. PLANTING STRAWBERRIES. 



The third (c) has had the roots thrust into a shallow 

 excavation, and must succumb during the first term 

 of dry weather. The fourth example (d) repre- 

 sents the proper way of planting Strawberries, the 

 roots being spread out in a natural manner, the 

 heart of the plant not being buried, while the neck 

 or collar is not exposed to the air to become hard 

 and dry, with the inevitable contraction of the sap 

 vessels. A plant thus placed in the ground will in 

 a few months' time be worth a dozen of the 

 others. 



