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Show PLANTING OF STRAWBERRIES Maryland Man Set Plants Eighteen, to Twenty Inches Apart and Cultivates Culti-vates In One Direction. In a talk on strawberries by J. WJ Kerr, of Maryland, before the Stater Horticultural association, the matted, fow plan of planting was given the preference by tho speaker. The plants, are Bet 18 to 20 incheB apart, aad ara cultivated in one direction. The rowa are well mulched with Btraw. Tw6 years of cropping one bed are deemed sufficient. The speaker Bald he re-; gards strawberries as more rernunera-' tive than any other fruit. Even ordinary or-dinary management will brink good, results. The crop is fastidious as to-soil to-soil requirement, and the grower, mr.tt loarn what varieties do best on his land. For instance, one grower who baa 20 to 30 acres annually in, the Gandy variety has a moist, rich soil, which Is what it requires. He ia very successful with this variety. There are other late ripening kinds that are profitable. "The question of varieties is so local and circumscribed," circum-scribed," said the speaker, "that it can. be solved by the expert individual only." One variety may prove a rank failure, where with another person it may prove very profitable. |