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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers. Mich. 
STRAWBERRIES IN THE HOME GARDEN OF H. PIESINGER, LESEUER, MINN. 
in while gathering the berries. This method 
of hill culture requires hand work almost 
exclusively. Another way to grow plants in 
hills is to make the rows thirty inches apart 
and set the plants twelve inches apart in the 
row. When this system is followed the 
twelve-tooth horse cultivator may be used 
just as with any other system. And another 
way is to have the I'ows thirty inches apart 
and the hills twenty-four inches apart in the 
row and have them set in check-rows so they 
may be cultivated both ways. Still another 
way of growing in hills is what may be termed 
the twin-hedge-row system; that is, make two 
rows sixteen inches apart, then leave a space 
of about thirty inches, then two more rows 
sixteen inches apart, and so on. The wider 
space is cultivated with 
horse tools while the nar- 
row space is cultivated 
altogether with hand tools. 
'T'HE single-hedge row is 
obtained by making the 
rows three and one-half 
feet apart and 
setting the 
plants twenty- 
four to twenty-eight inch- 
es apart in the row. Then 
each of these plants is al- 
lowed to make enough run- 
ner plants to form a con- 
tinuous row of plants, with 
the plants setting about six 
inches apart. After the row 
is formed, all the rest of 
the runners should be 
pulled or cut off before 
they form young plants. 
AN ideal way to grow 
fancy berries and the one best adapted to 
all classes of soils, is what we call the double- 
THE TWIN-HEDGE ROW 
Single-Hedge 
Row 
hedge row. This system is made by putting 
r. ui u J the rows three and one-half feet 
Double-Hedge ^ j ^, , , 
Ro„ apart and settmg the plants 
twenty -four to twenty -eight 
inches apart in the row. In forming the 
double-hedge row, allow each mother plant 
to make four runners, layering them zig-zag 
or X fashion. Keep the vacant spaces be- 
tween the young plants well hoed to prevent 
the forming of crust. Varieties making long 
runners may be set farther apart in the row 
than those making short runners, and the 
latter may be allowed to make six runners. 
'T'HIS system is quite generally practiced in 
many localities, especially by growers who 
are in districts where fancy berries are not 
so much in demand as a 
grade of berries of medium 
size. The narrow-matted 
row is not 
adapted to 
growing fan- 
cy fruit because the plants 
are somewhat crowded in 
the row and do not have 
the room in which to build 
up a large fruit-bud sys- 
tem, neither do the roots 
have the space from which 
to feed to mature berries 
of large size. The narrow- 
matted row is formed by 
making the rows three and 
one-half feet apart and set- 
ting the plants twenty- 
eight inches apart in the 
row; then allowing enough 
runners to form so that 
when they are matured the 
plants in the row will be 
about fifteen to eighteen 
inches wide. Under this system great quan- 
tities of fruit are produced, but we would 
Narrow-Matted 
Row 
