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and may be planted out with safety any time from 

 August to October. If Strawberry plants, treated in 

 this way, are planted in August, and care taken that all 

 runners that come from them be cut off as soon as 

 formed, so that the whole force of the root is thrown 

 into the main crown, a full crop of berries will be 

 gathered the season following, or in nine or ten montns 

 from the time of planting. We have practised this sys- 

 tem of layering Strawberry plants in pots, for what we 



Fig. 83. STRIKING STRAWBERRIES IN POTS. 



need for our own use, for the past twenty years, and the 

 results have been so successful that we have many con- 

 verts to the system, not only among those who grow for 

 their own private use, but many who grow this fruit for 

 market now use no other method. Plants grown in this 

 manner can be obtained from the nurseries, but the nec- 

 essary labor and the expense of the pots make the price 

 five times more than that of ordinary plants rooted in the 

 usual way and known as "ground layers." 



