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through a hot spell, which is sure to come, and this 

 condition is better obtained than in hills or narrow 

 rows. 



Wide Matted Rows Narrow Matted Rows 



Here is what the experts say about distance apart 

 for best results : 



SAM'L MILLER Rows three and a half feet apart and the plants 

 eighteen inches apart in the rows. Mo. 



Vigorous varieties set four feet and two feet ia the row. Set 

 GEO. F. BEEDE well growing varieties fifteen inches in the 

 row ; have plants thick or thin, as suits the variety. N. H. 



Rows four feet apart and plants two feet apart in the row ; 

 A. I. ROOT thin before freezing weather. I would thin the 

 plants out so they are about six inches apart from centre to 

 centre. O. 



Three and a half feet is the proper 

 distance for the rows, and fifteen inches 

 in the rows. Varieties like Michel's 

 WM. D. BARNS Early and Crescents, 

 that throw out a great many runners, 

 should be set six inches further apart 

 each way. N. Y. 



Plants should not be closer in the 

 H. S. TlMBRELL matted row than six 



WM. D. BARNS r SeVen ltlCheS &t P ickill g tim e. N. Y. 



The rows should be planted three and a half feet apart, and 

 T. J. DWYER the plants in the row should be twelve to fifteen 

 inches apart at picking time. The matted row should be from 

 twenty to twenty-four inches wide. N. Y. 



