ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE. 



FIG. 7. 

 SET JUST EIGHT 



FIG. 

 SET TOO DEEP. 



FIG. 

 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 indi- 

 cate the surface of the ground. 



Figure 8 shows a plant set too deep, 

 it, or at least prevent its doing well. 



Earth over the crown will usually kill 



DON'T FORGET 



That I want your order for 



plants this year. No matter 

 about the size of it. I have 

 millions of plants as fine 

 was ever grown. 



as 



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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 under 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 roots will touch. Take 

 the plants out of the pail only as fast 

 as you want to use them. 



Early Spring, j ust as soon as the 

 ground can be easily worked, is the best time of all the whole year to 

 plant strawberries in any section where there are extreme frosts in winter, espec- 

 ially if planting is to be done on a large scale and p ants have to be brought 

 from a distance. How to plant will depend largely upon iocal 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 dur- 

 ing picking season. Planted in this way all runners should be kept off the origi- 

 nal plants: for their best development they require each about one square foot. 



For field culture mark out the rows ,- w - ( .^.,-»,'< v r<.'>., •>.<<. rt,'../-wM.r W '<.rw »'t,(« w >uvi 



3i to 4 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 lines of the row, and then, 

 later in the season keep all runners off; 

 while if the broad matted row is want- 

 ed, 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 nar- 

 row is the more profitable of these two 

 systems, yet the matted row is the most 

 adopted as a many people are of the 

 opinion that the more plants the more 

 berries you can get. 



New London Co., Conn., April 25, 15-9S. .- 



W. F. Allen. Jr., Dear Sir :— Received my :■ 



plant.-; from yon in due time, and they ) 



gave me entire satisfaction. I never saw \ 



better plants and they arrived in splendid % 



order. Please accept' my thanks for lib- £ 



eral count, and for all the rest. My wife '„ 



also wishes me to thank you for the ex- £ 



tras which you sent her with the plants { 



she ordered*. She intends to give me "rats" . J 



on raising strawberries' (she has nearly a ~- 



half acre for her own) and those extra j 



plants yon sent her just suited. I guess \ 



von understand how to get customers and \ 



'to keep them. When I was talking about £ 



where it was best to place my order for i 



plants, she said she was going to send ? 



where she was sure of getting good plants, » 



true to name, and full count. You know ^ 



the rest .1 think you can count on us in ~- 



the future. With' best wishes, I remain, j 



Yours truly, T. T. Whipple. "•; 



