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hills. This is perhaps true also of some American vari- 
.eties, such as the Agriculturist, Russell’s Prolific, and 
Wilson’s Albany, which do well in hills. The distance 
between the hills in the rows, and the distance from one 
row to another, differ according to the notions of different 
growers. 
Two and a half feet between the rows, and one foot 
from plant to plant, are the distances given by one of the 
best strawberry growers in the country. Others set their 
plants eighteen inches apart, with three feet between the 
rows, while such monstrous stools as Triomphe de Gand 
and some other varieties sometimes make, will not be too 
far apart if they have two and a half feet each way. 
One very successful strawberry grower in this state 
adopts a method of setting out his plants for hill culture 
that seems very neat and satisfactory in its results. 
Instead of setting out as many vines as he means to 
have hills, he sets in the spring one third as many, and 
then allows each plant to make but two runners. These 
are carefully layered one on each side of the old plant, 
and in a line with it, and the soil being good and the 
other runners suppressed, these two make vines by Sep- 
tember hardly smaller or less vigorous than the plant 
from which they spring. 
Hill cultivation does not necessitate so rich a soil as the 
annual system ; but in all cases a good soil is needed, and 
weeds and runners are to be treated alike, that is, de- 
stroyed as soon as they appear. If the variety is valuable, 
and new plants are much needed, one or two runners may 
be allowed to root, but this interferes very much with 
clean cultivation.. A good, thorough covering is needful 
to carry the vinés well threugh the winter (as we shall 
see farther on), and an abundance of hay or some similar 
mulch must be ‘kept round the plants in the summer to 
‘keep the fruit from contact with the soil, 
As the stools get older they tend to rise up more and 
