32 STRAWBERRIES 
earliest formed trusses are pricked out. If no runners 
are required for stock, none should be permitted to 
grow, but if the earliest are layered and planted about 
AN ALPINE STRAWBERRY 
(From a drawing by Ethel Roskruge) 
the beginning of August they will give good crops ot 
delicious little fruits early the succeeding summer. 
Seed sown out of doors in May or June gives plants 
that will fruit well the following summer; but the chief 
use of Alpines is as autumn fruiters, and for this pur- 
pose the first-mentioned method of culture is recom- 
