Lhe Strawberry Book. 19 
CHAPTER IIt. 
METHODS OF CULTIVATION. 
STRAWBERRIES are grown in various ways as regards 
the number of plants originally set per acre, the manner 
in which these are allowed to grow, and the length of 
time the beds remain in bearing. They may be grown in 
beds, in rows, in single hills, or in matted rows, and the 
vines may be allowed to fruit three or four seasons, or 
may be ploughed under as soon as one crop has been 
picked. - 
Mr. C. M. Hovey, in a practical article; remarks, “ In 
either way,-with good judgment and proper treatment, 
good crops may be produced ; and under ordinary garden 
cultivation it is hardly possible, with a good soil and lib- 
eral manuring, to prevent a successful result, whatever 
may be the mode adopted. But in market culture on an 
extended scale, where the greatest profit is, and ought to 
be, the object, it is all important to follow that system that 
will give the greatest paying crop, for*it may be that two 
thousand quarts to the acre under one mode of culture 
will pay better than the same crop, or even three thousand 
quarts, by another; the cost of labor and the quality of 
the fruit consuming the difference. It is, therefore, the 
great object with market gardeners to find out that system 
which gives the best paying results, and to follow it up.” 
The very largest fruit in most cases brings the highest . 
price, and a market gardener is better off with five hun- 
dred quarts of immense, choice berries, than with three 
times that number of small ones. He will therefore study 
