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when Hovey's Seedling was placed on the market as a 

 variety that would thrive under cultivation. Up to that 

 time the strawberry was known only as a wild fruit, and 

 was considered to thrive only in its haunts in the wood- 

 land. But with the introduction of this cultivated form 

 other varieties began to appear and each year now sees 

 many new varieties placed on the market for the use and 

 consideration of the cultivator. 



Propagation 



The strawberry reproduces itself with considerable 

 vigor, in all but a few choice varieties. This manner of 

 reproducing differs from the habit of most fruit producing 

 plants, in that each vigorous plant sends out a number of 



Diagram showing- the manner in 

 sends out runners to reproduce itself. 



which a strawberry 



runners, which form new plants at intervals of a few 

 inches. These new plants that form on the runners quickly 

 attach themselves to the soil and develop root systems of 

 their own. The slender straw-like runner which nurses 

 them until their own roots are formed then dies, and the 

 new plant in turn sends out other runners, so that from a 

 small beginning a very large number of plants can be ob- 

 tained in the course of one season. 



In starting a new plantation the young plants give 

 greater satisfaction than do those which have produced 



