62 Fruit Culture. 



stem will form on the old stock, and that as many berries 

 and of as large a size will be obtained from the one hill as 

 would have been had the runners been allowed to run over 

 the bed at will. This has been proven true in Minnesota 

 and elsewhere, and is likely to be so in Colorado. Varieties 

 like the Crescent Seedling, that are so profuse in runners, 

 will stool out wonderfully when the runners are kept off ,~ 

 the more they stool out the more fruit stems ; hence greater 

 the crop. 



The hill system and the row system each have their 

 advocates. 



Joseph Wolff says : I grow in the hill system princi- 

 pally, three feet between rows and twelve or fifteen inches 

 between plants in row, removing all runners as soon as they 

 make their appearance. Grown in this manner they attain 

 a very large size, are more readily cultivated, command the 

 highest market price, and pay a larger profit than to let 

 them run. 



Wm. Newland's system is in rows three feet apart and 

 one foot in the row. 



A. N. Hoag sets his still farther apart four feet be- 

 tween rows, eighteen inches in the row, throwing up a ridge 

 to set the plants on so that water will run between the rows. 

 Cultivate often to keep weeds down, except while fruiting. 

 The first year he grows onions or early peas among the 

 plants, the profit of which generally pays for cultivating. 



Wm. Newland prefers clay loam to sandy land. He 

 says he raises more and larger berries on such land. Yet the 

 rich sandy loam of such sections as the town site and vicin- 

 ity of Colorado Springs have been found to be. admirably 

 adapted to the production of the largest and best straw- 

 berries. At the meeting of the El Paso Horticultural 

 Society, held in Colorado Springs in June, 1881, thirty 

 varieties were shown, the display far exceeding that shown 

 at the fair of the State Society held in Denver shortly after- 

 ward. 



