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_in the spring, will give quite a decent show of fruit the first 
season. To the impatient amateur, a plant layered in a 
pot is worth ten vines transplanted in the ordinary way. 
One Western grower appreciates so highly the value of 
pot plants that he raises them in large quantities for his 
own use for planting by the acre. He finds that the extra 
labor, which is not so very great when the work is reduced 
to a system, is more than compensated by the excellence 
‘of the plants, and by the fact that he can get a large and 
certain crop in June from pot plants set in August or Sep- 
tember. 
The Bush Alpine strawberries produce very few run- 
ners, or none at all, and are propagated by dividing the 
roots. The Alpine strawberries come true from seed, and 
seédlings are usually grown to make new beds, instead of 
transplanting from old ones. Of propagation by seed to 
obtain new varieties I shall speak in a separate chapter. 
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