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Soil. 



On rich, heavy soils plants are viney ; on light soils of 

 average fertility the same variety makes only a moderate 

 number of rmmers. There is more necessity for restrict- 

 ing runners on clay soils than on sandy loams. The rela- 

 tion of richness of soil to method of training is considered 

 on page 30. 



Variety. 



Hill or hedge-row training is most successful with 

 varieties that normally make large, compact plants, set 

 few runners and produce fruit of large size. Sharpless, 

 Triomphe, Jessie, Marshall and Parker Earle are examples. 

 In the Pacific Northwest, where hill training is preferred for 

 Magoon and most other varieties, many find it best to 

 grow Gandy, Glen Mary and Aroma in single hedge-rows, 

 setting one runner from each plant. In 1900 and 1901 

 the New Jersey Experiment Station compared thirty-five 

 varieties under hill and matted row training. Eleven gave 

 heavier yields under hill training, the increase being 1000 

 to 6000 quarts an acre. Other varieties yielded about the 

 same under both methods, while still others bore heavier 

 in matted rows than hills, a few nearly twice as much.* 

 This point should be considered in variety testing. 



Varieties that make a superabundance of runners, as 

 the Crescent, cannot be kept in hills to advantage ; the 

 expense of runner cutting is too heavy. Certain of the 

 everbearing varieties, as Pan American and Autumn, 

 bear fruit in the fall only on the mother plants and not on 

 the runners of that season ; these should be kept in hills. 

 In everbearing varieties that have Louis Gautier blood in 

 them, as Francis and Americus, the young runners begin 



• Repts. N. J. Exp. Sta., 1900, pp. 234^-7 ; 1901, p. 235. 



