STRAWBERRIES 13 
may be planted out where they are to fruit, during 
August or early September. The advantages of such 
practice are many and obvious, the chief being that in the 
following season a fair crop is obtained, as the system 
is only a slight modification of that followed for forcing 
strawberries. 
Other points to be specially remembered are to 
propagate only from fertile plants, and further, to 
propagate only from strong healthy stock, and not 
from old and well-nigh worn-out plantations. These 
points may seem trivial to those who know how freely 
runners are produced, but are not in a position to 
fully appreciate the advantages secured when they are 
observed. Comparisons are frequently odious, but they 
have to be made all the same, and if gardeners who have 
not hitherto tried the early planting of early runners 
from young plants not allowed to fruit, and compared 
the crops subsequently obtained with those from late- 
planted runners secured from a fruiting plantation, 
would but make the comparison, we should hear much 
less of unsatisfactory results. If the strawberry were 
less hardy and less easy to grow, more pains would be 
taken with it, but as it is one of the most good-natured 
subjects in the garden it too often, even in these days 
of splendid varieties and big crops, suffers because of a 
neglect of apparently small, but really most important 
details. 
It always pays in private gardens annually to plant a 
few strong young plants, from runners, for stock pur- 
poses alone. It is an essential matter when the forcing 
of strawberries has to be carried out on a fairly large 
scale, as I shall presently show, and it is distinctly good 
practice for out-door crops. Pinch out the flower 
trusses from these stock plants as soon as they can 
conveniently be removed, so that all the energy may 
be thrown into runner production. 
