204 THE NURSERY AND THE ORCHARD. 



feet flowering or bisexual kinds will bear crops and fer- 

 tilizes the pistillate varieties at the same time. Do 

 not mix the two classes of plants in the same row. They 

 can be kept separate, if the rows are only a few feet apart, 

 by cutting off all the runners, but the fruit of the pistil- 

 late kind will be a cross, and the seeds from the fruit 

 when planted may produce valuable new varieties, but 

 the chances are not very favorable When seeds are to 

 be planted, the thoroughly ripened fruit is mashed up 

 and well mixed with sand, and the whole planted in a 

 partially shaded place, or in a box, and covered very 

 lightl\% not more than an eighth of inch deep, with fine 

 soil. If well watered, the plants will be large enough in 

 the fall to set out in the bed. Some of them may devel- 

 op superior qualities, but we already have so many val- 

 uable kinds, superior seedlings will be obtained only in 

 rare instances. At the South, fall is the usual time 

 of setting out strawberries. If done in August or Sep- 

 tember, and the plants are well watered and protected 

 froai the sun, they will bear good crops the next spring 



.im, 



Fig' 124. 

 after planting. The ground must be deeply plowed and 

 thoroughly enriched. If for field culture, the rows are 

 madethreeor three and one-half feet apart, with a space 

 of one to two feet between the plants. For garden cul- 

 ture, they can be planted much closer together, leaving 

 the plants far enough apart to be cultivated conven- 



