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supply of plants, can afford to spend more time and care over them 

 for the sake of producing a higher class of fruit. The strawberry 

 is a fruit that is very sensitive to good treatment, well repays 

 any extra attention given to it. In order to economize space I would 

 recommend the suburbanite to plant in rows as an edging to flower 

 beds, or vegetable plots, putting the plants one foot apart in the 

 rows and keeping all runners religiously cut off ; in this way all the 

 strength of the plant goes to the fruit. Should you wish to propa- 

 gate extra plants of any particular variety it will be better to have 

 a little propagating bed in some out of the way corner; there you 

 can plant the varieties in rows two feet apart and 18 inches between 

 the plants in the row, keeping the ground mellow and free from 

 weeds to encourage the runners to start and root. Another 

 matter about the strawberry is that its size and quality is greatly 

 influenced by local conditions, so that a variety that succeeds well 

 in one place, when grown elsewhere may turn out to be almost worth- 

 less, without any fault of the grower or the party who recommends 

 it; it will then be wise for parties thinking of growing strawberries 

 to find out what varieties do best in their immediate locality and 

 not place too much confidence in the roseate descriptions in the fruit 

 calatogs, and only test other varieties in a limited manner. At the 

 same time the converse of this is also true, and strawberries that 

 do not succeed with your neighbor may excel with you. Its attrac- 

 tions are so great we must excuse these little individual peculiarities. 



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