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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
August, 1914 
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Appropriate Lighting Fixtures 
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to throw out runners. If the plants are to 
be grown in hills, as described above, to 
produce a maximum crop of fine berries 
the following spring,.cut off every runner 
as soon as it appears. All the strength of 
the plant must be concentrated in making 
a fine large head of fruiting crowns, which 
by freezing weather will be a foot or so 
across. If the “matted row” method of 
growing the berries is preferred, push the 
tips of the first runners which form into 
the soil, to make secondary plants for some 
six inches on either side of the plants 
which have been set out. As soon as these 
are well rooted, they should be cut from 
the parent plant. All other runners must 
be kept cut off, as in the hill system. 
As soon as the plants have taken hold, 
a dressing of nitrate of soda—a small 
handful to several plants worked into the 
soil with the hoe—will assist in giving 
them a quick start. If irrigation is avail¬ 
able, that, in connection with the soda, will 
produce splendid large plants which will 
assure a bumper crop in the spring. 
If the strawberries in your garden have 
previously suffered from disease, or dis¬ 
ease was prevalent in the patch from 
which your newly set plants were taken, 
spray with Bordeaux, every ten days or so 
after planting, and again in the spring un¬ 
til after blossoming. Look for dark pur¬ 
plish spots on the leaves, which finally dry 
and crack as if they were burned. The 
large white grub is likely to cause trouble 
by eating the plants below the surface. 
In the fall a supply of material for 
mulching should be obtained. It should 
not be put on until quite late, after the 
ground is frozen hard, which will be usu¬ 
ally not earlier than the first of December, 
and sometimes considerably later. Marsh 
or meadow hay is one of the best material 
to use. Straw or leaves are sometimes 
employed, but they are likely to blow 
about. The mulching should be put on 
over the entire bed, covering the ground 
as well as the plants three or four inches 
deep. If necessary board or brush may 
be used to hold it in place. In the spring, 
as the plants begin to push through and 
the blossom stalks are thrown up, the 
mulching is pushed a little to either side, 
uncovering the plants, but leaving the 
ground between the rows covered. This 
keeps the ground shaded and cool, and 
holds the berries up so that they are much 
cleaner and much more readily picked than 
otherwise. 
Planting the Winter Garden 
(Continued from page 95) 
induce a “fancy massing” by those whose 
interest lies in promoting this sort of 
ihing. Evergreens both little and big are 
too individual, too positively assertive, to 
be planted in mixed groups. Wherever it 
may be, whoever may have planted it, and 
however thrifty the plants themselves, 
such arrangement of them is bad. Group 
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