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of a rake with fine teeth fifteen inches apart, can be 

 drawn first lengthwise and then crosswise, keeping 

 the end tooth in the line already imbedded in the 

 soil. Where the lines cross will be the points at 

 which plants are to be set, and no runners must be 

 permitted to grow. 



If more than five rows are wanted it will be for the 

 convenience of cultivators and pickers to omit the 

 sixth row for a path, and then as the arithmetics would 

 say, proceed as before. 



It is very important that these young plants at this 

 season should be removed without cutting or even dis- 

 turbing the roots. Small pots are often used into 

 which the roots are induced to grow and this method 

 is to be commended if properly done. They must 

 not be allowed to remain until they are too compactly 

 rooted, that is, pot-bound. 



The picture represents 

 method of potting runners. 

 When we ship them to a 

 distance, in order to protect 

 the young roots, we send in the pots instead of 

 knocking them out and wrapping the balls of earth in 

 papers. 



In our own garden, however, our land being some- 

 what inclined to clay, we can take up the plants with 

 a round trowel with a lump of soil adhering and thus 

 remove them to their new quarters without loss. 

 Their growth will not in the least be retarded. The 

 best crop we have ever produced was from plants set 

 out on the nineteenth day of August, the plat being 

 250 feet long and five rows wide. It was a trial bed 

 with numerous varieties, but the product of one end 



