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then the bed requires good mulching in the 
fall to keep the plants alive all winter. 
“If the white grub appears try the car- 
bon bisulphide remedy. Just pour a table- 
spoonful of the liquid on the crown of the 
plant, letting it soak into the soil. 
“Probably your best plan will be the 
hedge-row system, which is to cut all the 
runners until about July 1st, when bed one 
or two of the strongest runners on each plant 
in the rows so as not to interfere with run- 
ning the cultivator one way. After this 
try to keep all runners cut, and a dust mulch 
around the plants and the weeds destroyed 
when they first germinate. 
“It is very bad practice to dig plants 
from the fruiting bed to make a new bed in 
the spring. It is, however, a good thing to 
make a little propagating bed quite late in 
the spring, when the leaves are so large that 
you can distinguish the different varieties, 
using those which have proved most desirable. 
One can bed all the strong, early runners at 
one end of a row, placing them around the 
mother plant like the spokes in a wheel and 
holding them down by little stones or soil. 
Keep the bed clean and late in the summer 
