CHAPTER IX 
PropaGATION, BREEDING 
THE strawberry is one of the easiest plants 
to propagate; in fact, nature has arranged 
for the production of offspring from the 
plants. There are two ways by which the 
plant is propagated that are worthy of 
consideration: : 
1. By seeds. 
2. By runners (or rather, new plants 
produced at certain points on the runners). 
The first process is the one that is so 
common among our wild strawberries, where 
the fruit matures and the seed drops to the 
ground, there being partly covered up and 
either germinating that summer; or, if the 
conditions are not right, it may lay over 
until the opening of spring the following 
year. Man has stepped in and used this 
seed method of propagation for the produc- 
tion of new varieties. 
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