36 THE STKAWBEEEY CULTUBIST. 



themselves and become individual plants, but they are constantly re- 

 newing themselves, while at the same time their crowns remain nearly 

 level with the surface. Hovey, Walker, Jenny Lind, in fact most of 

 our native scarlets are of this class, and they will bear from fair to 

 very large crops, even when the plants are allowed to grow thickly all 

 over the ground. 



I would not advise the growing of the strawberry in this manner, 

 as I think it much better to cultivate them in rows, keeping off the 

 runners ; yet there are many persons who will not take this trouble, 

 and further, they claim that it is more profitable to grow them in 

 mass than in rows. 



Those of an opposite character, represented in Figure 13, which was 

 drawn, half-size,- from a Triomphe de Gand of the same age as the Bart- 

 lett, shown in Figure 12, should always be grown singly, as they will 

 not produce half a crop if allowed to run thickly together. They are 

 seldom as hardy, as their crowns or fruit-buds are more elevated and 

 exposed to the cold. It will be observed, by examining the en- 

 graving, that all the crowns are united to the main stem, showing no 

 inclination to separate. A, C, and D represent side crowns, and B the 

 central one ; E represents the old fruit-stalk of the present season ; 

 F, F, new roots starting from the side crowns above the soil. This 

 variety is more spreading in its habit, and produces its new crowns 

 almost on the top of the old ones, instead of upon the side, as in the 

 former class. 



They soon become so high above ground that the new roots can not 

 or do not reach the soil in sufficient numbers to furnish the plant with 

 nutriment. Many of our very best varieties are of this class. They 

 require special culture, with which they are very productive and val- 

 uable, and they must have more room than those varieties that pro- 

 duce but single crowns or many in a cluster, each depending upon its 

 own roots for support. 



When grown in rows or hills, the soil may be hoed up to the 

 plants after they have borne two or three crops. By this means 

 the new roots are covered, and the plants will be very much strength- 

 ened, and produce fruit a year or two longer than they would other- 

 wise. 



