SIX WEEK'S GROWTH. 
This engraving: was made from a photograph which was talcen just six weeks after the patch was 
burnt over, showing what a vigorous growth well developed plants make when properly handled. The picture 
on the opposite page shows how this patch looked six weeks before; nothing to be seen then but fresh dirt, 
which covered crowns about one-half inch; runner plants are layered along the row to form the hedge sys- 
tem, and with proper cultivation both young and old plants build up a heavy crown system. After the second 
crop they are turned under and the ground manured and refitted. Set nothing but well developed plants and 
do everything in the right way at the right time. 
all other runners are cut off and cultivation 
and hoeing continued the same as on new 
beds. No field should ever be allowed to fruit 
more than two crops; longer than this is done 
at a loss. A new field should be set each 
spring with plants strong in their fruiting 
power and that have never been weakened by 
pollen exhaustion. 
FALL SETTING OF PLANTS. 
The time to set plants is in the spring. We 
will not furnish plants for summer or fall set- 
ting under any circumstances nor for any price. 
We do not want to send these thoroughbred 
plants to any one to be grown under unfavor- 
able conditions. We insist that they shall be 
set at the proper time, and that is early in the 
spring, on ground properly fitted and given 
suitable tillage, and odierever this is done they 
create a sensation with every one who sees 
the fruit and this is the basis of our success 
in plant breeding and explains why the num- 
ber of orders double every year. 
If we knew you were a lazy, shiftless fellow 
and would not take pride in having something 
nice and be above the ordinary and would 
put the plants in poor ground and give poor 
tillage, your order would be a uamage to us 
and we would not accept it. 
Plants have no time to grow and develop 
their fruit organs and supporting vegetative 
parts when set in the hot, dry months of Au- 
gust and September, and besides all this we 
could not then furnish them at a price we 
would advise you to pay. Let them have a 
whole summer and pick the blossoins the first 
spring, so as to preserve the vigor at a time 
when they have not secured a rootage to sup- 
port this exhaustive process; follow the cul- 
tural methods prescribed and you will find fun, 
money and pleasure in the business. 
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