Cultivation. 



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From the crown a new and vigorous growth will eventually take their 

 place. 



When one is engaged in the nursery business, the young plants 

 form a crop far more valuable than the fruit. Therefore, every effort is 

 made to increase the number of runners rather than to destroy them. 

 Stimulating manures, which promote a growth of vines rather than of 





The Wilson Strawberry. 



Boy Weeding. 



fruit, are the most useful. The process of rooting is often greatly 

 hastened by layering; that is, by pressing the incipient plant forming 

 on the runner into the soil, and by laying on it a pebble or lump of 

 earth to keep it in its place. When a bed is closely covered with 

 young plants that have not taken root, a top-dressing of fine compost 



