Strawberries and How He Grows Them 
PARSON'S BEAUTY (B). 
MEDIUM EARLY TO LATE. If this variety had 
been introduced with a boom, it would now have been a 
leader on every farm. 1 scarcely know how to impress 
you with its true value and still do other varieties jus- 
tice. The berries are big, deep red fellows, beautiful and 
delicious, aiul when productiveness is mentioned we 
hardly dare telll how the beauties pile up,_ but put it on 
your order and you will not regret it. It is a good ship- 
per and it sells at sight. 
SPLENDID (B). 
EARLY TO LATE. For several years we could nx 
impress people with the true value of Splendid. The 
name is a puff and tells the truth, but somehow people 
did not order it and so we dropped it out of our list; 
but 1 knew its true value would be recognized and so 
kept on building it up by selection and restriction. It 
has come at last. There has been an urgent call for it 
and so this year we are prepared to meet it. ISerries are 
up to the photograph, meaty and rich and the past three 
years has been one of the most productive varieties on 
the farm. It is a beautiful berry and one of my pets. 
Then it will send out another runner. C;it 
this and you will Ret a new fruit crown. It is 
a fine test of the fruiting vigor of a plant. If 
it is exhausted in its organism, when you cut a 
runner, it will tlirow out another runner and 
often you will find it exceedingly difficult to 
make it build up fruit crowns. Of course, all 
plants will make runners more freely, if the 
soil contains a large amount of nitrogen. 
The soil must be very rich and the plants set 
in rows 24 to 30 inches apart and about 20 
inches apart in the row. It is a waste of land 
to set them three or four feet apart because 
the ground would not be fully occupied. 
The advantage is that the plants will ar- 
range their foliage so each leaf shall have full 
sunshine and a free circulation of air all around 
it. Sometimes the plants stool ui> too much 
to permit this and then as good results do not 
follow. The fruit buds are generally fidly ma- 
tured in the fall. This is of the utmost im- 
portance in growing high grade fruit and here 
they have plenty of time. It makes it easy to 
hoe and conserve moisture and the savin.g 
over working in the matted row is more than 
the cutting of runners. 
THE HEDGE. 
The hedge row is most decidedly my ideal 
way of growing berries. For hand tillage 
rows need not be over two feet apart, but for 
horse ctdture at least 30 inches and i)lants set 
about 30 inches apart. Let one runner start 
out each way and form two plants each side. 
This makes the plants set about eight inches 
apart. Then we keep off all other runners and 
keep the plants, like drilled corn, in a straight 
row. The runners can nearly all be cut with 
a sharp hoe or rolling runner cutter like the 
enclosed picture. It is a flat disc ten inches in 
Rolling Runner Ctitter and I,eaf Guard. Price $1.75 
Runner Cutter attached to Wlieel Hoe. 
diameter attached to the cultivator by an out- 
rigger with castor action and has a leaf guard 
which picks the leaves up and pushes them 
aside and cuts the runners by rolling over 
them. It fits the 12-tooth Planet Jr. cultiva- 
tor, but will work on any by having holes 
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