| Show cultivation OF THE strawberry P barry said he would cultivate in rows two and a half feet by one foot and keep off the runners until after bearing runners generally cestr destroy the bed they should be removed every second lor or third year tile tiie the ground should always be well trenched and 11 E hooker would plant two and a half by three feet for an amateur in very rich deep soil and keep off the runners ile he finds il it difficult to get an extra price for extra large berries in the rochester macket for marke mark etim tins he would plant four or five feet anait and cultivate cultivate with a cultivator let the rows grow in in masses about one foot wide this lie he thought was the cheapest way to produce them C L hoag said sald dr ward of newark thought that the poorer the ground the better the fruit he had a bed on pi or ground which produced admirably same egme which he planted near an old hotbed hot bed did not yield well he brades spades under all of the present years crop using this keais runners for the next ne it years crop doolittle of oaks corners ontario county said the best berries which he be ever saw raised were grown on ground which had been scraped off a foot deep the part scraped had been cur carried a few rods and the whole planted with strawberries the part which had two surface soils produced very inferior fruit while the part scraped yielded abundantly |
