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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
We hire boys to do this work who go along the rows through the blossoming 
reason, pinching off the fruiting stems as fast as they appear, sometimes going 
■over the same rows seven or eight times. 
We do not clip the runners from our matted rows, but allow them to run and 
root freely as soon as they will; but it may be done until about the first of 
August, when they should still be able to make a good narrow matted row. In 
hill culture the runners are kept off the entire season, clipping them off with a 
■sharp hoe when hoeing. With every runner removed a new crown is added to 
the plant until it attains a large size, when, to cover completely, would often 
require a bushel basket. The more vigorous the variety, the larger the plants 
•may be made the grow. 
Intensive culture consists mainly in spacing the young plants about the 
parent plant in such a way that each plant will stand an equal distance (about 
eight inches) from its neighbor, until the row is wide enough to suit, all other 
runners being removed as soon as they appear. This is the ideal way to grow 
strawberries. It’s lots of work; but larger crops and finer fruit will pay the 
grower who can follow up this system. We recommend this plan to those whose 
grounds are limited, and to all others who can give it the required attention. 
Mulch the vines in winter, whether the ground will heave in spring or not. 
Do not disturb them in the spring more than to uncover them. At fruiting 
time be prepared with new clean packages. Old, weather stained and moldy 
boxes are expensive. Instruct the pickers to pick each berry by the stem and 
handle them with great care. Assort and grade them as they bring them in. 
Arrange the berries to attract the eye, but have each crate throughout as rep¬ 
resented. Sell second grade and ordinary berries where you can, but put your 
'Stamp on every crate of first grade stock. If you have something new and extra 
fine, go right up town; show them and name the price. The moral of all this is 
plain—excellence will win. 
Springfield, Ill., April 26, 1904. 
Gentlemen:—My plants came the 26th in the finest condition. 
Resp. yours, H. EMERSON PHELPS. 
Tlppecano Co., Ind., July 5, 1904. 
Gentlemen: — Please send your catalogue to - . He has a notion to set 
some strawberry plants and thinks this is the month to set them. I told him 
it was a waste of time to dig them from an old patch; that I would rather buy of 
you than dig them from my own, if I had ever so many. If you have no cata¬ 
logue on hand write him and have him wait until next spring and get the 
plants of you, and oblige, Yours very respectfully, 
Amos Myers. 
Lorain Co., Ohio, April 9, 1904. 
A. R. LOCKHURST. 
Potatoes came in good shape. Fine stock. 
