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and no runners. In growing the plants in this way 
the runners should not be allowed to form a row 
more than one and a half feet wide, as this will be 
fully two feet in the second season, and as much as 
a picker can manage. The grass particularly should 
be kept out of the rows of young plants, or it will 
take a start in the spring and entirely crowd out the 
strawberries. 
These rows should be set out every spring, taking 
the plants from the outside of the rows planted the 
preceding year, as it is almost impossible to keep 
them free from weeds after the first season, besides 
which they do not bear more than half so many, nor 
nearly such large berries, the second season. Unless 
the ground is very rich where the young plants are 
set, it is a good plan to sow a heavy coat of phos¬ 
phate, bone, or, best of all, wood ashes, just before 
they are worked with the cultivator for the first time 
in the spring. The young plants should not be 
planted in land that has just been in sod, as it is full 
of white grubs, which will eat the plants off under¬ 
ground, and care should also be taken that the ma¬ 
nure for the strawberry plot is not infested with them, 
These rows should be lightly covered with long ma¬ 
nure, old hay or other litter, in the fall, after the 
ground has become frozen hard, so that they may be 
protected from rapid freezing and thawing; and if 
the covering is not too heavy, it can be left on in the 
spring and the plants will shoot up through it, leav¬ 
ing it as a mulch and serving to keep the berries 
clean, by saving them from contact with the ground, 
