32 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
After the plants are set in rows which are 
three to three and a half feet apart, with the 
plants from eighteen to thirty inches apart in 
the row, the runners are allowed to have full 
swing and develop as many plants as they 
will. 
In cultivating, the machine is only run in 
one direction, and as the plants spread the 
cultivated space narrows until twelve or 
fifteen inches at its greatest width. 
_ The greatest drawback to this system is 
that many great plant-producing straw- 
berries are allowed to set their plants too 
close together, resulting in a somewhat smaller 
crop and quite small fruit, which of course 
will not bring the highest price in the market, 
and also costing more in time and money to 
pick. Careful attention to the proper thin- 
ning of the plants in too heavily set matted 
rows will obviate this drawback. 
Single-hedge row.—This method is quite 
well adapted to a more intensive system of 
strawberry growing. The main idea is to 
set out the plants in rows two to three feet 
apart, the plants being twenty to thirty 
inches apart in the row. Each plant is 
allowed to produce two runners, and one 
