STRAWBERRY SPECIALISTS 9 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Official Certificate No. 129 Boston, Auguct 3, 1948 
To Whom It May Concern: 
This is to certify that I have this twenty-ninth day of 
July comple:ed the inspection of the strawberry stock of 
George Rennie Farm grown at Andover, State of Massachu- 
setis, and find it to be apparently free from all injurious 
insects and diseases which might be transferred on nursery 
stock frcm the nursery to the orchard or garden. 
This certificate good until July 1, 1949. 
Inspected by T. J. Army (Signed) Q. S. Lowry,, 
Director. 
SPACING OF PLANTS 
Most growers allow far too many plants to set 
in the row. We believe that the largest crops of the 
finest berries can be grown in rows two and a half 
to three feet wide with runner plants spaced seven 
or eight or even nine inches apart. Any plants that 
set closer than this should be treated as weeds and 
should be cut out with the hoe when hoeing the 
plants. Have one end of the hoe very sharp for this 
purpose. In the matted row you will find the most 
and largest berries are at the side of the rows That 
is because they have more moisture than plants in 
the middle of the rows. In the spaced rows they 
have all the moisture they need to make large fruit. 
In the spaced rows you have very little rot as they 
dry off better after rain. You also get larger berries 
in a dry season. We have a customer on the North 
Shore that set out 500 Howard 17 plants. He al- 
lowed each plant to make only eight runners 
You will do us a favor by showing this catalogue 
to your friends. 
