W. F. ALLEN. JR/S CATALOGUE 



HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT. 



FIG. 7. 

 SET JUST RIGHT. 



FIG. 8. 

 SET TOO DEEP. 



FIG. 9. 

 SET TOO SHALLOW 



Figure 7 shows you a plant properly placed in the ground. The top of the 

 crown, where the leaves come out, should be just above the surface, after the 

 plant is set and the soil leveled down around it. The lines in these figures 

 indicate the surface of the ground. 



Figure 8 shows a plant set too deep. Earth over the crown will usually kill 

 it, or at least prevent its doing well. Fig. 9 shows a plant set too shallow. The 

 air can get to the roots, and so can the sunshine, and the plant will not do well 

 under such conditions. The roots should all be in the ground. I do not sup- 

 pose anyone would set a plant quite as deep as in figure 8, nor quite as shallow 

 as shown by figure 9. I have exaggerated these cuts to make the lesson plain. 

 Also the leaves on the plant are a little more upright than you will usually 

 find them when setting out. They often crinkle down so as to be in the way. 

 Of course we had to put them up out of the way in these pictures so as to show 

 you plainly just how to do the setting. Do not make the holes except as fast 

 as you want to set the plants, so as to have the soil moist where the roots will 

 touch. Take the plants out of the pail only as fast as you want to set them. 



Early Spring, just as soon as the ground can be easily worked, is the 

 Rest TIME OF the whole year to plant Strawberries, in any section where 

 there are extreme frosts in winter, especially if planting is to be done on a 

 large scale and plants have to be brought from a distance. How to plant will 

 depend largely upon local conditions, size and shape of the field, etc. In the 

 small family garden or city lot, where there is little chance to use horse and 

 cultivator, they may be planted one foot apart each way, in two or three rows; 

 then leave a space of three feet to furnish path during picking season. Planted 

 in this way, all runners should be kept off the original plants, since for their 

 best development they require each about one square foot. 



For field culture mark out the rows 3* to 5 feet wide and set plants 18 to 20 

 inches apart in the rows. Then if we wish to follow the narrow row system we 

 let each plant strike a few runners along the line of the row, and then, later in 

 the season, keep all runners off; while if the broad matted row is wanted, all 

 runners are allowed to take root and the cultivator narrowed up a little at each 

 cultivation during the latter part of the season, till we have matted rows of 

 plants two feet wide, with walk one foot wide between them. The narrow row 

 is the more profitable of these two systems, yet the matted row is the most 

 adopted, as many are of the opinion that the more plants the more berries. 



