TRUE-TO-NAME SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 
CULTURAL DIEECTIONS 
(Continued ) 
Fruit will average twice as large and 
sel: for more money in the markets. 
We recommend the hill system, as so 
many of our customers have reported 
such large yields from their fields. 
SINGLE HEDGE ROWS.—Mark rows 
thirty inches one way, and set plants 
twenty inches apart and allow each 
plant to make about two to four 
plants. Some very fine berries can be 
grown this way. 
DOUBLE HEDGE ROWS.—For dou- 
ble hedge rows, mark rows thirty-six 
inches one way, two rows of plants 
are set zig zag fashion, and each 
plant is allowed to make only a few 
plants. The object of the double 
hedge row is to get more fruit to the 
acre than by the single hedge row. 
The center of the bed is kept open so 
as to give the plants air and sun. 
This is one of the intensive systems 
and requires much more work than 
the other ways, and should not be 
practiced on a large scale. 
THE NARROW MATTED ROW.— 
Mark rows forty inches apart one 
way, set plants eighteen to twenty- 
fcur inches apart and allow to grow 
until row is as wide as desired and 
the keep down by cutting runners off 
the baiance of the season. Usually 
ten inches is the desired width. This 
is probably the most commen system 
ef growing berries in the large com- 
mercial growing sections, where fancy 
fruit is not the particu’ar object. 
Too many plants should never be al- 
lowed to mat in the bed as their 
growth is only at the expense of the 
former plants and when such crowd- 
ing is allowed small berries and smai! 
yields may be ‘expected. One acre 
grown in the proper way is worth 1% 
least two grown the wrong way. It 
takes a strong robust plant to make 
a productive plant. It must have 
plenty of room and moisture, if the 
reots are crowded moisture will be 
lacking. If one is not particular 
about neither auality or auantity. 
strawberries will generally grow with 
as little attention as any other crop. 
But we always contend that anything 
that is worth growing is worth grow- 
ing right, and advise our customers 
to get all there is in it by using the 
proper methods. The large crops are 
preduced when grown in hills and 
cultivated each way, one way with 
horse, if in commercial lots, and the 
narrow way with hoe or wheel hoe. 
If for garden purposes, plants may ove 
The above cut shows the Townsend way to handle plants when they are re- 
ceived and you are not ready 
Plants nicely heeled 
to set plants for several days. 
in can be kept for weeks. 
