1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
299 
THE STRAWBERRY BED. 
Rotation of Planting. —As the Win¬ 
der is almost gone it is time to be think¬ 
ing where we shall make our strawberry 
bed this Spring. Do not set the plants 
on the same piece of ground where you 
have had them year after year. Most 
crops do better for a change of land and 
particularly the strawberry. If I could 
have just the kind of land I wanted for a 
strawberry bed I should choose a piece 
that had never been previously plowed 
nor produced anything but spontaneous 
growth. The upper soil should be a good 
deep dark loam, with a clay subsoil to 
hold the moisture; not on a side hill, 
but what might be termed bottom land if 
not too wet. 
Virgin Soil for Strawberries. —If you 
have an old pasture frown up with shrub 
oaks and huckleberry bushes and other 
small shrubs cut every bush and tree and 
burn them on the land; then plow and 
harrow it often, till it is in good work¬ 
ing order. I know it will be hard work 
to subdue it, but it will pay in the end. 
This virgin soil makes the best land for 
strawberries. If more of this kind of 
land were used at the present day we 
should hear less complaint of rust, blight, 
and mildew. There seems to be some¬ 
thing in this soil that no fertilizer or ma¬ 
nure will quite supply to old soil. 
Setting. —The plants may be set as 
soon .in the Spring as the land has been 
made mellow and a small amount of good 
brand of fertilizer is harrowed in. Plants 
set in this virgin soil will grow and bear 
better, and can be cared for with one- 
tenth of the labor that it would take on 
old soil, for there are comparatively few 
weeds. Such land requires but little en¬ 
riching for the first few years, for it is 
well supplied with nature’s fertilizer. If 
you want only a small bed for the family, 
dig out the brush along the fence; it will 
improve the looks of the field, and the 
strawberry plants will grow better on this 
new land than elsewhere. 
Three Systems. —If grown in the sin¬ 
gle plant system, set the plants 12 to 15 
inches apart each way in two rows; then 
leave a space 30 inches wide for a path, 
and then set another bed the same and 
cut off all the runners as often as once 
a week. When the runners are cut off it 
causes the parent plant to grow side 
shoots or crowns closely attached to it¬ 
self, and at the end of the season they 
will be very large plants and will bear a 
large crop of fancy berries. For the 
hedgerow, plants may he set in rows 3/ 
feet apart, and the plants in the rows 
three feet apart, the runners trimmed to 
form a bed one foot wide. The great ad¬ 
vantage in growing the fruit in these nar¬ 
row beds or hedgerows, is the roots have 
more feeding ground in the paths between 
the rows, and in a wet season the fruit 
is not as liable to decay, as the air has 
a better circulation, and the fruit is gath¬ 
ered without much reaching. Ror a mat¬ 
ted bed set the rows four feet apart and 
the plants in the rows 18 inches apart; 
when they have made new plants enough 
to form a bed three feet wide cut all run¬ 
ners beyond that width, and keep the new 
plants in the bed six inches apart; all 
other plants cut off. Surplus plants are 
as weeds to the plants from which we 
wish to grow berries. Be sure to cut off 
the ends of the runners when the beds 
have attained the width desired, for all 
growth beyond draws vitality from the 
other plants from which you wish to 
grow fruit. It is a good plan to remove 
the old plants in September and let new 
ones fill that space, for after the parent 
plants have produced a lot of young plants 
the young ones have taken most of the 
vitality, so if left to bear fruit it will be 
inferior to that grown on the new. 
- Stock for New Beds. —By testing the 
comparative value of the different plants 
it has been found that the third or fourth 
plant from the parent plant is the best to 
set for new beds. Most growers select 
the largest young plants to set new beds, 
but I choose plants grown farther from 
the mother, as they have more vitality left 
in them. In some varieties I can grow 
more from plants at the end of the run¬ 
ner (tip enders) than from the largest 
plants of that variety. If you have vari¬ 
eties that are not inclined to make plants 
enough either set them in moist land or 
water them freely; the result, I think, 
will surprise you. Water is very essen¬ 
tial, not only in growing the plants but 
in swelling out the fruit, but if it is used 
freely the plants must not be crowded, or 
the fruit is sure to decay. Give them 
room to admit air and sun, and then with 
plenty of water the fruit will swell to 
its full capacity. Customers are always 
willing to pay liberally for water if pre¬ 
sented in an attractive form. Some one 
has said that to .grow large, attractive 
strawberries the first thing needed was 
water, the second was more water, and 
the third was still a little more water. 
Massachusetts. s. H. warren. 
Transplanting a Big Oak. 
</., Edmeston, N. Y .—I wish to transplant 
an oak tree about two inches in diameter, 12 
or 11 feet High. Can I safely do it? 
Ans. —Transplant your oak tree in 
early Spring, just before growth starts. 
The oak tree is not particularly easy to 
transplant, but if, at that time, care is 
taken to get a good root system, it will 
probably succeed. Very little success has 
been had transplanting in the Fall, as the 
tree dries out too much during the Win¬ 
ter. 
G.owfli of English Ivy. 
S. D. E., Umpqua Ferry, Ore. —What is the 
reason an English ivy persists in going in one 
direction, i. e., all side shoots going to the 
left ? 
Ans. —Climbing vines, like Fnglish ivy, 
usually grow in the opposite direction of 
the prevailing winds. Probably there is 
more or less of an air current that sweeps 
your ivy vines to the left, and consequent¬ 
ly the growth is in that direction. They 
also have a tendency to reach for the sun, 
and if more sunlight comes in from the 
left, they would naturally grow in that 
direction, unless the wind blew them the 
other way. _ 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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