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moderate temperature at night, letting the sun increase it by day; and at first, also, the 

 supply of water must be moderate, not giving enough to allow it to stand in the pans; 

 but as the plants begin to throw up their blooming stalks, the supply of water may be 

 increased, and the temperature also, but very gradually. When the plants are just com- 

 ing into bloom, they should be syringed over well every morning, but as soon as the bloom 

 pips begin to open, the syringing should be discontinued until all the fruit is set. As soon 

 as this has taken place, syringing may be resumed while the fruit is swelling, and during 

 this period of growth the feeders should be kept well supplied with water. When the first 

 berries begin to color, the syringe is dispensed with, and the supply of water should not 

 be so profuse, although care must be taken that the plants do not suffer for want of it, 

 and the heat while ripening may be slightly increased. The degree of heat throughout 

 the growth, after the first month, is not of so much consequence, as is the maintenance 

 of a gradual development of the energies of the plant, by avoiding a rapid increase of 

 temperature at any period, for that will usually be fatal to the result. 



It is a common thing for these forced plants, when they have yielded their crop of fruit 

 in the month of April, to be put in a cold frame for a fortnight, and then in May, turned 

 out of the pots into a freshly dug piece of ground, where at the end of July, they give a 

 moderate crop of fruit, thus giving two crops before the plant is quite twelve months old. 

 Then from their layers a renewal of the plants takes place, and the same round of culture 

 is resumed for the following year. 



Such is the present course of strawberry forcing pursued around London; and yet, I 

 remember twenty years ago, or thereabouts, it was usual, and thought necessary to grow 

 the plants two 3'ears in pots, before they were fit to be placed in the forcing house. 



I do not think it possible to grow the British Queen in perfection in this country out 

 of doors; but I see no reason why it should not be so in houses, or in flued pits or frames. 



AiX Englishman. 



Aew-York, November, 1S52. 



THE ROSE AND ITS CULTURE. 



CV WAI. CACO.X, RICHMOND, MASS. 



The rose is " every body's" flower. The ease with which it is grown makes it so; for 

 it xvill live, as thousands of starved, deformed, sicklj^ plants, put in the out-of-the-way 

 room around the old farm-houses — choked by grass and overrun by weeds, and cropped 

 ofi" by cattle, fully testify. Its beauty makes it a favorite. Ej^es whose perceptions are 

 dull in discovering the tasty proportions of form and likeness of color in other flowers, 

 sparkle forth its praises, even when its most perfect developments are seen in the misera- 

 ble specimens whose parent branches have drawn their sustenance from the same exhaust- 

 ed soil for half a century — dwarfed down to comparative insignificance, and starved into 

 disease. " As beautiful as a rose," has been a commonplace expression from the time 

 to which our memory gocth not back, and it has been uttered with a dignity of expres- 

 sion which fully indicates the force of the comparison it is meant to establish. 



Its fragrance justly entitles it to commendation. When the gentle dews of evening drop 

 their richness on its opening petals, it gives back to the stifled air odors rich in luxury and 

 health. And the gentle breezes of morning waft its perfume to gladden and refresh 

 who inhale its pure and delicious sweets. 



