ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOaUE. 



FIG. 7 PIG. 8 PIG. 9 



SET JUST RIGHT. SET TOO DEEP. 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 tigures in- 

 dicate the surface^of the ground. 



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

 it or at least prevent its doing well. Figure 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 un- 

 der such conditions. The roots should be in the ground. 

 Do not make the holes except as fast as you want to set 

 the plants, so as to have the soil moist where the root i 

 touch. Take the plants out of the pail only as fast a& 

 you want to use them. 



Early Spring, just as soon as the ground can be 



j^. J . Ch"^r\ Plant ^^^^^J worked, IS the best time op all 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 c istance. How to plant will depend 

 largely on local conditions, size and shape of the field, etc. In the small fami- 

 ly 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, for their best develop- 

 ment they require each about one square foot. :^ 



For field culture mark out of the rows 3i to 4 feet 

 wide and set plants 18 to 20 inches apart in the rows. 

 Then if we wish to follow the matted tow system we 

 let each plant strike a 'ew 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 run- 

 ners are allowed to take root and the cultivator narrow- 

 ed 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, is the more profitable of these two sys- 

 tems, yet the matted row is the most adopted as many 

 people are of the opinion that the more plants the 

 more berries you can get. Fig. 2. — A Good Plant. 



New Yerk, April 27th, 1899. 

 Mr. W. F. Allen, Deak Sir:— I am pleased to acknowledge receipt of my plants all of which 

 reached me in splendid condition. They are the handsomest lot of plants I ever saw and 1 ven- 

 ture to say none finer were ever sent out by anyone. They even surpass your own excellent 

 standard of previous years. I wish to thank you also for the many extras which I find you have 

 so generously added to every lot. I am, Yery truly yours, J. O. STEVENS. 



