BUNTING'S NURSERIES, SELBYVILLE, DEL 13 
The Sex and Mating of Strawberry Plants. 
In this book of Strawberry plant descriptions, the mark [Perfect] indicates 
a staminate or bi-sexual variety; [Imperfect] indicates a female variety. The 
staminate or bi-sexual, is called bi-sexual two sexes, or perfect flowering because 
it will produce immense quantities of fruit when set entirely by itself. In ferti- 
lizing the pistillate it is spoken of as "male" although it is not distinctly a male 
in sense that the pistillate is distinctly and only a female. Remember that the 
perfect flowering variety when set alone will produce a full crop of fruit; on the 
other hand pistillate or imperfect varieties ought to be mated or they will not 
produce a full crop of fruit. Hoping the facts just mentioned will be perfectly 
understood and to illustrate our meaning, we suggest that an ideal setting would 
be six rows of Parsons' Beauty, six rows of Haverland and so on; the same with 
any of the other perfect and imperfect varieties that you may choose. 
How to Set Strawberry Plants. 
The Strawberry will thrive in a great variety 
of soils and locations, almost any land that will 
grow good crops of corn or general farm crops 
will produce Strawberries. 
The land should be plowed very deep, if pos- 
sible, as this gives the water a chance to go down 
and causes moisture to rise in times of droughts, 
lay off the rows after you have thoroughly pul- 
verized or made smooth by the use of some 
machinery, either 3 or 4 feet apart, set the plants 
from 12 to 18 inches apart in the row. It requires 
10,500 plants to set an acre of land when the rows 
are 4 feet apart with plants set 1 foot apart in 
the row; this is a very good way to plant them. 
Give them clean cultivation, after planting keep 
all weeds and grass free from the rows; do not 
use chemical fertilizer heavy at the roots, you 
are liable to cause them to die by doing so. If 
A Properly Pruned Plant possible the land where you are to set plants 
This illudraiion shows one of our should be spread with old barn-yard manure be- 
phnls M roots and crowns holh ^ove it is plowed, there IS no danger m usmg too 
pruned. Note the Vigorous ^uch barn-yard manure. 
Root system. 
Pruning Roots. 
Before setting plants it is best to prune the 
roots back about one-fourth. Cutting off the ends 
of the roots causes them to callous, and they 
will send out numerous feeders and will make a 
much stronger root system than could be made 
if thi' roots were not pruned. And shortening 
the roots makes it easier to set the plant''. In 
doiriij this pruning you simply take a r^i' of 
shears or a sharp knife and cut about 1 1-2 in. off 
the lower end of the roots. A full bunch of 
twenty-fiv plants may be pruned at one cutting. 
