MARKING AND PLANTING 23 
take the plants, as they are old. The best 
plants have light yellow, sometimes light 
orange coloured roots, which denote that 
the plant is young. If there is a good, well- 
developed root system, so much the better. 
The leaves should be light green, fresh 
and new looking. 
PLANTING 
If the grower has used the furrow method 
of marking out his strawberry bed there will 
be very few tools needed to set the plants. 
Some growers use a trowel to place the earth 
around the plant, but for quickness and 
efficiency of labour there is not a tool that 
will equal the hand for this work. Follow- 
ing this placing of the soil around the roots 
of the plant, use the feet or the knees to firm 
the soil. However, there is quite a large 
amount of soil to replace in the furrow, and 
this can best be done by horse tools, such as 
the five or. seven shovel toothed cultivator. 
Almost every farm has these tools, so the 
beginner would be put to no extra expense 
for tools by following this method. 
The best tool to use in the case of planting 
to the mark or line is the ordinary garden 
