Excerpt from Allen's Strawberry Catalogue: Spring 1897

Figure 8 shows a plant set too deep. Earth over. The crown will usually kill it, or at least prevent its doing well. Figure 9 shows a plant set too shallow. The air can getto the roots and so can the sunshine, and the plant will not do well under such conditions. The roots should all be in the ground. I do not suppose anyone would set a plant quite so deep as in figure 8, nor. Quite soshal low as shown by figure 9. I have exaggerated these cuts to make the lesson plain. Also the leaves on the plants are a little more upright than you usually find them when setting out. They often crinkle down so as to be in the way. Of course we had to put them out - of the way in these pictures so as to show you plainly just how to do the setting. Do not make the holes except as fast'as you want to set the plants. So as to have the soil moist where the roots will touch. Take the plants out of the pail only as fast as you want to set them.

Early spring, just as soon as the ground can be easily worked, 18 the best time or all the whole year to plant strawberries in any section where there are extreme frosts in winter, especially if planting is to be done on a large scale and plants have to be brought from a distance. How to plant will depend largely upon local conditions, size and shape of the field, etc. In the small family garden or city lot, where there is little chance to use horse and cultivator they may be' planted one foot apart each way, in two or three rows then leave a space of three feet to furnish path during picking season. Planted in this wav all runners should be kept off the original plants. Since for their best develop ment they require each about one square foot.

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