388 FORCING. 
The English varieties are mostly staminates, and 
bear fruit of extraordinary size and flavor; but we 
think not in so large quantities as some of our pistil- 
lates. Certainly all the English staminates prove 
comparatively only second-rate in our soil and cli- 
mate. 
FORCING. 
On this point our experience is very limited, hav- 
ing been confined to small experiments during the 
past winter: we therefore give the best information we 
have been able to obtain, from the highest English 
authorities. 
In the London Gardener's Chronicle, edited in the 
Horticultural Department by Professor Lindley, we 
find the following directions from that most eminent 
horticulturist, Mr. Paxton : 
‘Select for this purpose, in the middle of August, 
a sufficient number of the best runners from approved 
kinds to have choice from, and plant them six inches 
apart, in beds, upon a strong border in a dry and shel- 
tered situation. As soon as the leaves have withered, 
mulch them lightly with well-rotted manure, and if 
very severe weather occur, protect them for the time 
with fern or litter. They must be kept the following 
