1873.] PLANTING OUT STRAWBERRIES. 299 



It is here a fine ornamental shrub of a sharply-conical form, abundantly- 

 branched, with linear leaves from a half to one and a half inch long, of 

 a rich shiny green colour. 



P. Koraiana (the Corean Podoccnyus), sometimes called "Taxus 

 Japonica," is found wild in mountainous districts in Japan and on the 

 Peninsula of Corea in China, growing to heights of from 10 to 20 feet, 

 it is also frequently met with in cultivation in town gardens in both 

 these countries as an ornamental shrub. 



Though of remarkably slow growth even under the most favourable 

 circumstances in this country, it is quite hardy, and forms a neat bushy 

 shrub, with a habit of growth similar to the Irish Yew. The long up- 

 right branches are much divided into small branchlets, abundantly 

 clothed with linear-shaped leaves from 1 to 2 inches long, of a bright 

 glossy green colour above and slightly glaucous below. It is a superb 

 plant for small gardens, and cannot be too highly recommended for 

 geometric beds or other arrangements where neat -growing dwarf 

 shrubs only are admissible. 



P. Nubigaena {the Nuhigean PodocarxMs)^ is found widely dis- 

 tributed on mountains in the colder parts of Chili, on the Andes of 

 Patagonia, in Valdivia, and on the island of Chiloe, and is described 

 as a lofty and beautiful tree. It is here a very slow-growing plant, 

 and extremely fastidious as to soil and situation ; where it does succeed, 

 however, it is very ornamental, and should be tried in all collections 

 of select shrubs. It will only thrive in rich cool soil, and in a mild 

 sheltered situation. The habit of growth is bushy and conical, the 

 branches thickly covered with thick leathery leaves about 1 inch long, 

 of a bright green colour above and with a glaucous line on each side of 

 the mid-rib beneath. Hugh Fraser. 



pIjANThstg out forced strawberries 

 for a main" crop. 



For the last nine years we have planted out our forced Strawberry 

 plants in a systematic way, for a main crop of fruit, and have never 

 in one instance failed in securing a most abundant crop. I am aware 

 it is a common practice to plant out forced plants as a kind of auxili- 

 ary crop, most dependence being placed upon the permanent planta- 

 tions ; but where Strawberries are forced in any quantity, I would 

 advise the planting of them out in a regular way for a supply of fruit 

 for preserving and other purposes. Such plants bear excessively the 

 first year, and never fail. The second year they will bear a heavy 

 crop again, but after this they should be trenched down. Besides, 

 the plants are soon enough if they are planted out in August. We 



