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bed with old plants. After the beds are planted, they should be kept as free from 
weeds as possible, and the runners cut about three times a season. In the autumn, 
he says that he has the space between the rows dug up, and, where practicable, 
some fresh manure laid in. He tells us, also, that different kinds of Strawberries 
require different sorts of soil. The Pine Strawberry, which is the most difficult one 
from which to secure a good crop, requires a light loamy soil, while the Hautbois, or 
“ Hautboy,” as it is commonly called, thrives best in a light soil well manured. The 
Wood Strawberry is best raised from seed ; the Alpine variety also must always be 
raised from seed, which should be sown in a bed of rich earth early in the spring. 
This sort of Strawberry exceeds all others in quickness of bearing, for it yields a good 
crop at the end of one year. 
Mr. Atkinson describes a method of making Strawberry-beds which he saw at 
Chatham, and which he thought excellent. The beds were upon flat ground, each 
about three feet wide, and between them were trenches nine inches wide, and four- 
inch walls of brick on each side of the trenches to keep the earth up: these trenches 
were about the depth of two or three layers of bricks, and were for the purpose of 
holding water, which was supplied from a pump whenever the ground was dry while 
the plants were in fruit. By this means a much larger crop of fruit was obtained, 
and the plants continued bearing much longer than in beds where there were no 
trenches for water. 
According to this plan, a very large extent of Strawberry-ground is watered with 
very little labour, and it has the advantage of letting the water to the roots of the 
plants, so as to keep the ground moist without hardening the surface, as is the case 
when the tops of beds are watered with watering-pots. 
In all treatises on horticulture, we have extensive directions as to the methods 
of forcing Strawberries in hothouses and pits: some kinds will afford a crop of fruit 
in a hothouse early in the spring, and if carefully removed and placed in the open 
ground, will yield another crop in September. 
Sus-Trise II1.—DALIBARDE. 
Calyx slightly concave or flattish ; segments usually valvate in 
estivation. Ovules 2, attached near the style. Styles nearly ter- 
minal, deciduous or withering. Fruit of numerous small drupes 
cohering together, inserted on a dry receptacle. Seed solitary. 
GENUS IX—RUBUS. Linn. 
Calyx concave or flattish, 5-partite; segments all in one row, 
without an epicalyx of bracts. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. 
Carpels numerous, with 2 collateral suspended ovules (one of which 
is abortive) in each. Styles nearly terminal, deciduous. Recep- 
tacle conical or cylindrical, spongy. Achenes pulpy and drupa- 
ceous, persistent or sometimes deciduous. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, with procumbent arched or erect stems, 
which are usually prickly and biennial. Leaves digitate or pinnate, 
