34 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
The plants are set thirty inches apart in 
the row, the rows three feet apart, allowing, 
when the plants are grown, about one half 
the space for the plants and one half for 
clean culture. 
The hill system.—The most intensive sys- 
tem of strawberry growing, in which the 
plants are set from one foot apart each way, 
to one foot apart in rows eighteen inches to 
thirty inches apart, the plan being not to 
allow any runners or new plants to set, but 
permitting the plants to grow to great size, 
believing that more and larger fruit of better 
quality will result. 
A very good application of this system is 
that carried on by a grower in New Jersey. 
His beds are marked out four feet apart, with a 
path between the beds one foot nine and three 
fourth inches wide. These beds are of any 
length desired. The plants are set out one 
foot apart each way in the four-foot beds. 
By planting at the edge of the bed, near the 
path, there will be five rows of plants across 
each bed. The number of plants required 
for an acre is 33,795 or 1,940 plants for 
a space 25 by 100 feet. His results have 
been wonderfully great. His method has been 
