Many of the small fruit catalogues contain items of information to growers which may prove of importance. Instance the following, which I venture to say has seldom been the subject of thought. I take it from " Strawberry Culture and Catalogue," of Matthew Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: " All who have cultivated strawberries must have noticed how inconvenient it is to have the runners extending in all directions. Sometimes they run from one row to another, where they are torn up ' by the cultivator, and sometimes two plants send their runners toward each other, making some parts of the row too thick, and leaving others vacant. All this may be avoided by setting the plants in such a position that they will run in a given direction. I discovered years ago that the strawberry plant sends out runners in but one direction, or from one side, and that is the side opposite the old runner that produced it. If the side of the plant from which the main runner was cut is set toward the north that plant will run to the south." This hint will be useful in the patch as well as in the small fruit garden.