26 THE STEAWBEKEY CULTTJEIST. 



room for a strawberry bed in fact, he has no garden, nothing but a small 

 yard, which is paved, and upon which the sun shines only a part of the 

 day yet grows many quarts of fine strawberries every year. His 

 mode is to get plants that have been potted in the fall and all ready 

 for fruiting ; these he places upon the sunny side of the pavement in 

 the morning, and moves them in the afternoon upon the other side, 

 having them placed upon a platform that is easily and readily moved. 

 The watering and moving are attended to by the children', and by their 

 constant watchfulness and care they learn to love and admire the 

 plants ; and when the fruit ripens, each specimen is looked upon as the 

 fruit of their labor and more highly prized than if bought from the 

 market. Each plant usually gave one quart of fine fruit. I mention 

 this merely to show under what difficult circumstances this beautiful 

 fruit may be grown. It should not be forgotten that, if we expect 

 good results, the plants that are to be fruited hi pots must be potted 

 the fall previous, and placed in a frame covered with glass during 

 the winter, where they will not be frozen, but it should not be warm 

 enough to excite the plants into growth. 



Plants that have fruited once in pots are of but little use, and it is 

 better to plant them out, and take a few runners from them, or get a 

 fresh supply from young, healthy plants. 



PROPAGATION. 



Having given on a preceding page a description of the best method 

 of propagation by seed, I omit any further remarks on that point, and 

 mention the other modes only. 



BY HUNKERS. These are young shoots that issue from the collar or 

 crown of the plant ; they are produced by most species of the straw- 

 berry in great abundance, furnishing a ready and convenient mode of 

 propagation. All that is necessary in propagating by runners is to 

 permit the young plant to become well rooted before removing from 

 the parent. But as several plants are generally formed on each run- 

 ner, it is requisite that the second plant from the parent plant should 

 be well rooted before the first is removed. The first plant on the 

 runner obtains its nutriment from the parent until it produces roots 

 sufficiently to support itself, after which it draws but little, if any, 



