14 SELECTION OF SOIL. 
flavored in an open garden, with no shade but their 
leaves. Alpines, and some other kinds, planted in the 
northern shade of a fence or dwelling, will commence 
later and continue longer in their bearing season. 
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New land, recently disrobed of its forests, if of a 
deep gravelly loam, we think is the best adapted to 
the strawberry, and next, a sandy loam; but almost 
any soil, even the heaviest clay, can be prepared, by 
a liberal admixture of sand or gravel, so as to produce 
the finest fruit. 
As has been intimated, as low moist soil as can be 
procured, consistently with depth and thorough drain- 
age, 1s best adapted to the strawberry; and yet ele- 
vated knolls, and even sand-hills, with the precautions 
above-named, have often succeeded well. 
Wet, spongy lands, except with a porous subsoil 
susceptible of drainage; and high, barren hills, with a 
thin, flinty soil, are alike to be avoided. 
The strawberry, however, is so retentive of life, that 
it will live in almost any soil; but it will not produce. 
much fruit, unless the remedies are in some way ap- 
plied to the ungenial soils. 
