SMALL FRUITS AND THEIR CULTURE 



strawberry culture may be made a success 

 without adopting the views of persons who 

 seem to think that theory is more important 

 than conmion sense. 



The simplest method of strawberry-grow- 

 ing that I know anything about is what is 

 called the one-crop sj^stem." 



Set the plants in rows three feet apart, 

 to allow the use of the cultivator between 

 them. Let the plants be a foot apart in the 

 row. Keep the ground between the rows 

 well cultivated, and in the second sunmier, 

 when the plants are bearing their first crop 

 of fruit, allow them to send their runners 

 into the space between the rows and take 

 root there. When these young plants have 

 fully established themselves — which will be 

 by the end of August, as a general thing — 

 take a spade and cut down between them 

 and the old plants. Then dig up the old 

 plants, making the place where they grew 

 a space between rows. Next season train 

 runners from the bearing plants back into 

 the old row. By thus alternating the loca- 

 tion of the plants you keep the garden sup- 

 plied with one-year-old ones from which 

 you get but one crop of fruit. This method 

 is so simple that any one can understand it, 

 and it has the indorsement of some of our 



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