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(S) The plmits should be rooted in three-inch pots the 

 previous summer, by sinking the pots and rooting tlie 

 plants starting on the runners in the pots. When well 

 established, and the pots full of roots, keep them in an 

 airy place until cold weather, with occasional watering. 

 "When placed under glass shift to four-inch pots, (c) A 

 temperature of 60 to 75 degrees in the day and 50 to 60 at 

 night is favorable, and indeed any care favorable for such 

 hardy plants as the geranium will suit the strawberry. 

 (d) When the fruit is developing, water can be applied 

 more liberally, and application of liquid manure at this 

 time will give increased vigor to the plants and an in- 

 creased crop of fruit. 



261. Shelter from Drying Winds. — Over a large part of 

 the United States and Canada the strawberry is lessened in 

 yield of perfect fruit and health and thrift of vine by direct 

 exposure to prevailing drying winds. This is specially true 

 in the arid States and over those west of the great inland 

 lakes. Experiments made by Professor Green, of Minne- 

 sota, and others in the prairie States, have demonstrated 

 that beds sheltered from dry winds, and protected from the 

 direct rays of the sun by lath frames — as practised by pine- 

 apple growers in Florida — have given a still greater increase 

 in size and perfection of fruit and healtli of foliage. In 

 practice the lath -shading would not prove profitable, but it 

 pays well where possible to select positions for planting 

 sheltered by tree growth, or in other ways, from prevailing 

 dry winds in the growing season. The same is true of the 

 raspberry and blackberry. In nature they are found 

 usually in sheltered and even shaded positions, and direct 

 exposure in the interior states to raking winds not only 

 lessens the fruit yield, but favors the development of the 

 small fruit fungi referred to in the chapter on spraying. 



