12 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
THREE TYPICAL LONGFELLOWS 
'lA/'E believe that no other variety of strawberries will yield berries so uniform as to size and shape as the Longfellow, and 
when it comes to productiveness we are sure that no other varieties will outdo it. Then it has a flavor which is unsurpassed 
in deliciousness, and its sub-acid quality mal<es it possible for all to enjoy it. Being a splendid shipper it already has become a 
favorite with the commercial growers. See the picture on Page 23 showing the Longfellow growing at Kirkwood, Mo., in the 
family garden of J. E. Walbridge. This is only one of many flattering reports received concerning Longfellow's fine qualities. 
any one of them might be placed between 
rows of Longfellow and Pride of Michigan; 
or between any other bisexuals of your 
choice. To be sure, the grower may elect to 
set no pistillate plants whatever, and in this 
case he will have no question of mating to 
consider. But years of experimentation have 
convinced us of the high value of the pistil- 
late varieties, and we know that, as a rule, 
when they are properly mated, the pistillates 
produce more berries and of better quality 
than the bisexuals. There is a distinct value, 
however, in selecting several varieties of 
plants, even though all of them be bisexuals, 
as our experiments have proved with certain- 
ty the fact that an exchange of pollen be- 
tween bisexuals is of great value and en- 
courages increased yields of better fruit. 
Systems Followed in Planting 
EACH grower, if he be one of long expe- 
rience, has his own favorite system of 
growing strawberries. Once in a while 
one is found who will have nothing but the 
hill system. Usually his fields are not very 
extensive, and he is happy only when he is 
growing the "biggest ever." And it is the 
hill system that produces the largest number 
of big berries to the plant without a doubt. 
The immense root and crown system that the 
hill method encourages is certain to produce 
fruit of large size. There are several ways 
of growing in hills, but all of them are alike 
in one regard — no runners are permitted to 
develop, and the full strength of development 
goes into the production of one big fruit-pro- 
ducing plant. One popular hill system is to 
divide the field into plots about four feet 
wide and twenty-five feet long, into which 
plants are set one foot apart each way. Be- 
tween these plots is a two-foot path for pick- 
ers. The cultivation is by hand, and the re- 
sults from a given area are sometimes very 
large. The number of plants required for an 
acre by this system is approximately 34,000. 
Another popular method, which admits of 
horse-cultivation, is to make the rows thirty 
inches apart and set the plants twenty-four 
inches apart in the row. What is known as the 
twin-hedge row is really one form of the hill 
system. Two rows are made sixteen inches 
apart, then a space of thirty inches on either 
side followed by two more rows sixteen inch- 
es apart The wider spaces are cultivated 
with the horse, the narrower with the hoe. 
The Single-Hedge Row 
A/f ORE popular than any other system, per- 
-'■ haps, with the grower whose area is not 
extra-extensive, is the single-hedge row. This 
is because of its simplicity and ease in hand- 
ling. In this system two runner plants are 
allowed to mature from each mother plant 
and are layered in line with the mother plant 
in the row, one on one side and one on the 
other. Usually the rows are made from three 
feet to three and one-half feet apart, and the 
