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It makes a difference what varieties are planted ; Warfield, 

 Crescent, Michel's Early, etc., should be planted not less than 

 two feet apart in the row, as a rule ; while kinds that make 

 EUGENE WILLETT a slower stand should be much closer, say 

 f: om twelve to eighteen inches. While we formerly planted five 

 feet apart, now we plant only four feet, and make the middle 

 space narrower. N. Y. 



We put all rows out three feet four inches apart every ten 

 feet, which can be easily measured and marked by stakes con- 

 taining three rows. Had we planted to rich laud four feet apart 

 might be better, but we think not. The plants might be set the 

 same distance apart and have the soil cultivated both ways. On a 

 large scale this would be our plan. Should anyone prefer to set 

 the plants nearer together, as many do, they could be planted 

 twenty inches apart, and still be cultivated both ways, or in rows, 

 by the modern steel frame cultivators. It is a common custom, 

 recommended in all books, to run the cultivator through the rows, 

 always in the same direction, thus pushing the rows aside and 

 massing them together, and for what purpose? To save 

 J.W.ADAMS labor ostensibly. What is the result? A dozen 

 or so of unproductive plants to the square foot, stunted in 

 growth, in flower and in fruit. At the Field Day Show of the 

 late P. M. Augur, two young men sat down and counted more 

 than 200 berries on one plant, the fruit being of good size. How 

 much space do you think that single plant occupied ? Would 

 you grudgingly give that plant a square yard of ground? If 

 you would have maximum results select your runners as they 

 appear, allot them a space more than a foot square for every 

 three or four plauts, and then defend them in their lease of land 

 against all weeds or runners. Then it has been our practice, as 

 soon as the runners well cover the ground, or about October ist, 

 to cut out all of the old plants set out in the previous spring. In 

 this way we obtain less in number, but much larger berries. 



Mass. 



I believe the best and cheapest way of setting plants is to 

 mark the ground both ways in checks, in hills, three to four feet 

 S. W. GILBERT and cultivate both ways. Keep all runners 

 off until the plants are well established, and then train the run- 

 ners to fill the three foot space. Six inches apart is close enough 

 for the plants, and a foot would be better. Mo. 



