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hoe can be run in about the plants and the bed kept free 

 from weeds as cheaply as if the plants were allowed to 

 make runners. By the hedge row (Fig. 75) plants are 

 set in rows about three feet apart and from two to three 

 feet in the row, and runners enough are allowed to grow 

 to fill out a bed of three feet with plants one foot apart. 

 .With plants set early in the spring these runners will 

 make growth nearly as large as the hill plants but it 

 takes more work to keep the weeds from among them 



FIG. 75 Strawberry Field. The Double Hedge-Row System. 



than under the hill system. The matted-row system is 

 where plants are set at various distances, according to 

 soil, three by three, four by four, and four by five feet 

 apart, and all the runners allowed to grow, covering beds 

 two to three feet in width. When the plants are set the 

 greater distance, and the runners are allowed to root not 

 nearer than four or five inches apart, the crop of fruit 

 will be large and of fine quality, but when all the runners 

 grow over a narrow space, the plants will be weak, the 

 fruit small and in wet weather of poor color and quality, 

 and will decay quickly. 



