If young plants are scarce, take up the strongest and best-
rooted ones, and leave the runner attached; set out such plants
with their balls of earth four feet apart in the row, and with a
lump of earth fasten down the runners along the line. Within a
month these runners will fill up the new rows as closely as
desirable. Then all propagation in the new bed should be checked,
and the plants compelled to develop for fruiting in the coming
season. In this latitude a plant thus transferred in July or
August will bear a very good crop the following June, and the
berries will probably be larger than in the following years. This
tendency to produce very large fruit is characteristic of young
plants set out in summer. It thus may be seen that plants set in
spring can not produce a good crop of fruit under about fourteen
months, while others, set in summer, will yield in nine or ten
months. I have set out many acres in summer and early autumn with
the most satisfactory results. Thereafter the plants were treated
in precisely the same manner as those set in spring.
If the plants must be bought and transported from a distance
during hot weather, I should not advise the purchase of any except
those grown in pots. Nurserymen have made us familiar with pot-
grown plants, for we fill our flowerbeds with them.
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