THE STRAWBERRY APRIL 1907 



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vating with hand tools until the vegetables 

 are marketed. 



2. For the double-hedge row we 

 would suggest that you make the rows 

 three and one-half feet apart, then when 

 these rows are formed there will be about 

 thirty to thirty-four inches of bare space 

 between the rows. If you intend to use 

 hand tools throughout the season, it will 

 be all right to make the rows two and one- 

 half feet apart. 



3. If your ground has not been well 

 manured, it would be a good plan to use 

 500 or 600 pounds of some commercial 

 fertilizer. Write the Mapes P. & G. Fer- 

 tilizer Works, 143 Liberty St., New York 

 City. They make a complete fertilizer for 

 this purpose. 



4. If snow in your locality falls early 

 in the winter, and remains on the ground 

 until spring, it would be all right to defer 

 mulching until about March. I'he mulch- 

 ing could be put on top of the snow 

 and it would settle to the ground as the 

 snow melted. 



R. R. H., Sebastopol, Calif. In a propagating 

 bed is it best to let a mother plant raise all the 

 young plants it will without any restriction 

 whatever.' 



2. In the case of a mother plant with long 

 runners, with five or six plants on one runner — 

 will the end plants make as good fruiting 

 plants as the first one or two next to the 

 mother plant.' 



3. Do you know of a variety of strawberry 

 called the British Queen? Do they go by 

 some other name in different parts of the 

 country, or is it just a local variety her* in 

 California.' 



I can suggest a few pointers that may help 

 some one. I take a common hoe and cut off 

 the sides at an angle, from a point near the 

 stem to the comer at the cutting edge, mak- 

 ing a triangle of it, and sharpen all three 

 edges. If the handle is too long, cut it off, 

 and if too large around plane it down. I 

 find it very light and handy, and remember 

 it will take a long time to wear out a hoe if 

 you sharpen it with a file every few minutes. 

 I have a hoe of the same pattern as above de- 

 scribed with a handle eight or ten inches long, 

 to use with one hand, holding the plant over 

 with the other hand, for working extra close 

 to old plants. I like The Strawberry very 

 much, and I find it very interesting and helpful. 



Plants in the propagating bed should be 

 restricted by cutting off all lateral runners 

 — that is, the runners that start from the 

 side of the principal runner — and do not 

 allow the plants to mat so thickly that 

 they will not have roon to develop to 

 good size. 



2. If the soil has been well supplied 

 with plant food, and the mother plant kept 

 perfectly healthy and vigorous, all progeny 

 should be of equal value. 



2. We know nothing apout the British 

 Queen variety. 



We often have cut the top corners off 

 hoes as you describe, and it makes an ideal 



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tool for working around strawberry plants. 

 However with a hoe thus made great care 

 should be used when working close to the 

 plants that you go not too deeply or too 

 close to the plant, lest the roots be cut. 



