^14 CUlTrRE.OF THB ALPINE STEAWB-ERRY. 



power, which rules the spiral wire: but that this wire is the 

 cause of the naotion, whatever may be the superior cause 

 that regulates it, I aai hourly more and more convinced, 

 frtructureofits The berberis is curious on another account; its corolla is 

 corolla very peculiarly made, something lii^e the watery corolla, 



but not quite ; no one can look at it, and not see that it is 

 water, which causes all the beauty of its light and spark- 

 ling appearance. 



J am, Sir, 



Your obliged servant, 



AGNES IBBETSON, 



X. 



j4n improved Method of cultivating the Alpine Strawherry, 

 By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq, F, R, S., ^c* 



Culture of the ^ ^^^ Strawberry is a fruit, which is agreeable to the pa- 

 Alpine straw- lates of so many persons, and which disagrees with the con- 

 "^* stitutions of so few, that any means of improving the culture 



of it, and of prolonging the season of its maturity and per- 

 fection, will probaby be acceptable to the Horticultural 

 Society; I am therefore induced to send an account of an 

 improved method of cultivating the Alpine strawberry, that 

 jg, I believe, little, if at allj known, aud that I have prac^ 

 tised with the best possible success, 



„, . Thouiih the flavour of the Alpine varieties is generally 



Valued as an =7 i i i /. i ., » , 



autumnal approved, they are not much thought or, while the larger 



*^''°P' varieties continue irt perfection, and are valued only as an 



Experiments 2"^"™""' crop. I was therefore led to try several different 



' ^ methods of culture, with a view to obtain plants that would 



just begin to blossom at the period when the other varieties 



cease ; conceiving, that such plants, not having expended 



cither themselves or the virtue of the soil in a previous crop 



of fruit, would afford the best and most abundant autumnal 



]^roduce. Under this impression X sowed the seeds of 



♦ Trans, of the Horticultural See. vol. I, p. 169. 



the 



