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Growing Strawberries In Hills 
[ have one row of berrie* that I hdve 
kept all the runners out off. ' The rest of 
the acre is in the matted row. On this 
one row the plants are very large, and 
it seems to me as if one plant grows 
within the other, making a large bush, 
which is a simple matter to keep clean 
and cultivated against the matted rows, 
which require so much hand weeding. If 
T set out an acre, three-foot rows, one 
foot apart in the rows, would I get. as 
great a yield as in tiie matted rows? I 
have been reading all your accounts on 
growing strawberries. Some sav in your 
issues that they are planted 18x18 inches, 
worked both ways, but what puzzles me 
is what do they do with the runner 
plants? Strawberries are our main crop, j 
and we are on high-priced ground. I J 
have never.seen strawberries grown this 
way. and would not like to try an acre j 
unless I knew of some one who does it 
on a commercial basis. k. 
New Jersey. 
Our experience in planting strawber¬ 
ries in hills has been that while we get 
very many fine berries in this way. the 
yield on the whole is not as large as 
where the plants have grown in matted 
rows; that is, where the runners are per¬ 
mitted to root. Of course under the hill j 
system many of the runners are cut off. j 
leaving only three or four to take root ! 
around the parent plant. It is easier to j 
take care of the hills, as they can all be I 
worked with a cultivator and weeding is j 
made much easier. Of course varieties 
differ in their power to start out runners. 
For example, Marshall is at its best a ! 
poor plant maker, and therefore it makes j 
one of the best varieties for bill culture, 
as it is easier to keep the runners down. 
Some varieties make runners freely, and 
it would be almost impossible with ordi¬ 
nary labor to hold them in check. We 
have known of cases where strawberries 
were grown in young orchards. The rule 
was to give thorough culture up to about 
.Tune, and then when the ground was wet 
set plants of certain varieties in rows 
six feet apart and three feet in the rows. 
These plants are usually dug in the 
Spring and heeled in until planting time. 
Reasonable culture was given between the 
rows as soon as possible, and while it 
seems incredible, by the end of the grow¬ 
ing season the ground was nearly covered 
with new plants and a fair crop of 
medium-sized strawberries, and was 
picked the following year. 
The reference to plants set IS inches 
apart probably means the recent article 
by D. L. Hartman, who grew liis crop in 
Florida. You must remember that con¬ 
ditions in the South are very different 
from ours. Mr. Ilartmau started his 
plants early in the Spring or Winter and 
did his planting in the Fall, using Spring- 
grown plants for this purpose. Tn that 
warm climate the strawberry plant when 
sot out in this way does not go into 
Will ter quarters, but makes a crop of j 
fruit at once and naturally will not pro¬ 
duce a large crop of runners at the same [ 
time that they are making fruit. In the 
lull system it is absolutely necessary to 
out off most of the runnel's by band. 
Plum Trees from Seed 
I have a plum tree, French Damsou | 
variety. Several years ago Prof. Van De¬ 
man in answering an inquiry, stated that, 
it was the only variety of plum that 
would reproduce itself from seed, and I 
know he was right, as I have one tree 
that came from a plum that fell under the 
free and in some way got covered with 
onrth. T would like to raise quite a num¬ 
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‘do the seeds that I may have them come 
'ip and grow? J. A. Z. 
Indiana. 
Hum, peach and cherry seeds have a 
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"id of do ore over Winter. With the plum 
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<bo seed from the sand, the xvhole being 
sprinkled in the furrow at planting time. 
" 'fh peaches the meat is picked out and 
planted in the nursery row in the Spring. 
Il is well to transplant the trees at the 
end of the first season, as this gives a bet- 
*er root growth. To have trees exactly 
ike the variety it would be better to plant 
seedlings and bud them, as described pre- 
viously i n The R. N.-Y. t. h. t. 
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