18 ‘ MANURES. 
the plant; for we opine it will be found that the over- 
feeding of the strawberry is one of the most universal 
and destructive errors in its cultivation. 
Some use liquid manures, composed of cow and hen- 
droppings dissolved in a barrel of water; but they are 
not well adapted to assist the fruit-bearing properties 
of the plant, but are good if the object be to send out 
runners and increase the plants. 
On the opening of spring—the latter part of April or 
the 1st May, in the latitude of the State of New York 
—it is well to give the plants an impetus, by liberally 
showering them every ten days or two weeks with a 
solution, in six gallons of water, of one quarter of a 
pound each of sulphate of potash, sulphate of soda, 
(Glauber salts,) and nitrate of soda, with one and a half 
ounces of sulphate of ammonia; or, if these cannot be 
conveniently obtained, use the same quantity of potash, 
sal soda, Glauber salts, and sal or muriate of ammonia; 
or a solution of either of them is beneficial if applied 
alone. 
We have tried for many years various combinations 
in solution, but have been unable to obtain any so 
valuable as the first named. 
We have always found plaster injurious to the straw- 
berry, and ashes beneficial, when judiciously applied. 
