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Fig. 9. Fig. 10. 



LARGE AND SMALL PLANTS. 



Were we to set a large plantation of strawberries, where we should have to trust 

 more or less to "help" to set it, we should prefer a small medium size plant, or even 

 if we were obliged to set them all ourselves, we should prefer such, for this reason— 

 a small plant that has but few roots like Fig. IS, is more easily handled. The roots 



Fig. 11. 



are quicker spread out, and are not likely to be jammed into the ground, tangled up 

 or crossing over each other. The soil strikes every root and fibre and packs around 

 all better, so that no air penetrates to them, drying them out ; while the larger root 

 Fig. 11 cannot be set without crossing them and getting thorn into the ground "in a 

 heap," and, with a large share of the plants, the air works in, drying out the roots and 

 even ruining them with careless hands. We would much prefer to have the smallest 

 strawberry plants than the largest, for we have always noticed in passing over a 

 plantation a few days after setting, that those plants that failed to grow were the 

 largest plants, and on pulling them out we would almost invariably find that they had 

 been " doubled all up," and the air getting in quickly destroyed them. Therefore, our 

 advice is ^o any party who orders plants, not to, lay so much stress on large plants, but 

 be more particular to order them " tied in bunches, with the roots kept straight." 



GROWING- PLANTS FOR RE-SETTING. 



Set them close in the rows, and let them root in thickly together. By so doing, 

 they do not grow to be such overlarge plants, and will form roots sufficiently lanje t«» 

 transplant. 



