J. H. Shivers Plant Farms, Allen, Maryland 
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PERFECT AND IMPERFECT VARIETIES. Perfect flowering 
varieties planted alone will mature a crop of perfect fruit. Imperfect 
flowering varieties should have perfect varieties planted with them, 
at least one row for every five or six. When two varieties are used 
in equal amounts, they are often alternated three or four rows of 
each. In my price list, perfect flowering varieties are followed by 
“per” and imperfect varieties by “imp.” 
DISTANCE TO PLANT 
We recommend setting the plants in rows SV 2 to 4 feet apart, or 
even as much as 4 V 2 feet, if the soil is very fertile. The plants should 
be set 15 to 24 inches apart in the row, depending on the varieties set, 
the width of the rows themselves and th fertility of the land. Free 
growing varieties like Dunlap, Missionary and Blakemore which make 
large number of plants should be set farther apart than varieties like 
Chesapeake, Lupton and othrs that make larger plants, but not so 
many of them. When set in rows 3 feet 8 inches apart and spaced 
18 to 20 inches apart in the row, it requires about 8,000 plants per acre. 
SPRAYING 
Spraying is not usually necessary in growing strawberries suc¬ 
cessfully. Care in purchasing healthy plants, and in selecting varie¬ 
ties immune or resistant to disease and insects is much more im 
portant. 
WHAT TO DO WHEN PLANTS ARRIVE 
Set plants on arrival if possible. It will help if roots of the 
plants can be dipped in water and allowed to “plump up” for sometime 
before setting, perhaps over night. At any rate have them thoroughly 
moistened when planting. If anything prevents immediate planting 
and the weather is cool, the top of the crate should be taken off and 
the plants loosened in the crate, still keeping the roots covered with 
the packing material. Placed where it is cool, plants will keep like 
this two or three days. If weather is too warm to keep plants, or too 
cold to set them out they should be heeled in in some shaded or pro¬ 
tected place. Dig a V-shaped trench, open the bundles, spread them 
out in thin layers with buds just even with the surface of the ground 
and firm the soil back against the roots of the plants. If necessary 
several layers oi plants can be heeled in the same place with one or 
two inches of soil between each layer. Wet the soil and plants 
thoroughly when heeling is done. 
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