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hills, if you do not hill tliem up. We often set out in 

 rows, two feet apart, and leave the plants one foot from 

 each other in the rows ; or a method by which we have 

 enjoyed great success in producing the finest fruit, has 

 been to prepare a plot of ground, and cover it with 

 strong plants one yard apart, and stimulate these tem- 

 porarily, by a liberal application of liquid manures or 

 soap-suds from the wash, to send out runners, which 

 will soon supply the intermediate ground with plants 

 of nature's own planting, which is a little better done 

 than any one else can do it ; care should, however, be 

 taken to spread the runners so that the above distance 

 of from eight to twelve inches can be preserved. Al- 

 lowing plants to fill the ground too closely with runners, 

 and permitting those runners to remain, defeats more 

 good crops of fruit than almost any other error. 



For field culture^ set one plant in a place, eight inches 

 to one foot from the next, in rows three feet apart, 

 so as to leave room for a horse-cultivator to pass be- 

 tween the rows, care being requisite not to approach 

 nearer than eight inches to full grown plants, particu- 

 larly when approaching the fruiting season. This whole 

 process of field culture is the same in its general prin- 

 ciples with that in the garden ; except, for the conve- 

 nience of a horse-cultivator to pass between them, the 

 rows should one way be planted the same distance 

 apart as corn; then die same treatment as to clean 



