Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-04-23

HOW TO GET PLANTS.
Plant growing and fruit growing
are two distinct arts. The best
growers do not fruit the stock they
raise plants from. If you would
get best results, decide to get none
but best plants Of best varieties.
The best dealers grow plants, and
not crops. Such hav.i vig9r and
productiveness not found Ia any
other. Communicate with a reliable
pant grower that is nearest to you,
get the reports Of your government
experiment station. Get varieties
b vt adapted to your soil and climate
and rainfall and winters and frosts.
The Sharpless, for instance, falls
easiest victim to a spring frost when
In blossom. Ia the more highly
colored, wild d-strawberry favored va
rietles, we will fluid the results that
tickle the palate In Oregon.
On question of procuring plants,
IL is essential that your stock be true
to name, and that you know the
sex OF varieties. The better class of
plant growers will not deceive you
on these points. An authority says;
"Tell your grower to send you only
reliable standard varieties. What
you want is berries, not the latest
novelty, which costs high and may
prove dear IL taken as a gift. Have
the plants sent you by express, II
you get any quantity, as they can
be sent ia better shape than bS mail,
and you will naturally get larger
plants. If you get only dozen OF
so of a kind, to start with, and grow
your own plants for bed, why,
they may as well come by mail II
It will be much cheaper.
II would have none but the besI
plants, and new, young plants that
have never borne any fruit, and thai
were grown from plants that pro
duced no fruit. New young plants
have white, Abrous roots; old ones
have black roots that look old anC
dead. / would not take such as |
gift. Better buy the best at higl
prices. Do not buy any "cheap'
plants, or of a man who you hay
any fear might send you whateve
he had on hand anyway. Do no
take plants as gift, out of SOM
old bed of a nelghbors. / have hat
farmers ask me If they could sc
some plants from my bed after W
were through picking, and when W
were just going to plow them under
They were for saving few cents
but it was "penny wise and poun'
foolish" Get good plants to star
with.
"When your plants come, tn
sooner they go into the ground tn
better. If they come at night, o
your ground Is not quite ready, yoI
may set the box or basket they com
In down cellar until you are read.
to put them out. II it Is likely t
be more than a few hours, l woul'
open the bunohes tthey come tie'
20 or 80 IN q bunch, usually slight.
spreading oat the roots in littl
mellow, moist soil, and cover then
with the same, and then shade tn
plants,p
HOW TO SET THEM OUT.
Next open your plants and pu
forty or Fifty in the water, bein
sure that all roots are under; and
the tops are too, II will not mattel
Cover the rest OF the plants fror
the air again. Now you are read
for setting,
You can make the holes TO put tn
plants In with a brick-layer's trow'
or spade. Stand on one side of Tia
row, push the spade down about tiv
inches, with the back 10 the lin,
A man can throw out the holes yer
rapidly In this way. Next TAX
one plant from the water, sprea
the roots out fan.shaped, aud wit
the left hand hold this plant agalni
the perpendicular side Of the hol'
With your right hand throw tw
OF three Inches deep Of moist ealt
against the roots. Then press ii
earth firmly against the roots, usiu
both hands. Fill the rest of Il
hole with mellow earth, leaving
loose. Never let the strawberr
roots get dry, nor put dry cart
directly against them. II the 81
face is dry, scrape II of with yo
trowel aud get moist soil TO thro
next the roots. Wet roots put
moist soil, well flrmed about Il
roots, aud mellow or loose on d
surface, are the best conditions p,
slble.
Some people laugh at such cal
fulness, and say that "strawberI
plants will grow II stuck In alm'
any way; even a plant left lying
the surface, by the person setli
out, will often take root So
will; bat LEI me tell you that VIII
you ind man farming In Il
careless, slip-shod, trnst-to, luck VI,