14 GEORGE RENNIE FARM, ANDOVER, MASS. 
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Official Certificate No. 109 Boston, July 28, 1950 
To Whom It May Concern: 
This is to certify that I have this twenty- -seventh we 
of July completed the inspection of the strawberry stock 
of George Rennie Farm g.own at Andover, State of 
Massachusetts, and find it to be apparently free from all 
injurious insects and diseases which might be trans ferred 
on nursery stock from the nursery to the orchard or 
garden. 
This certificate good until July 1, 1951. 
Inspected by T. J. Army (signed) Q. S. Lowry, 
Assistant 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 allowed each plant to make only eight 
You will do us a favor by showing this catalogue 
to your friends. 
