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then to be plunged to the rim in spent bark or ashes. 
All that they will here require is attention to watering 
when necessary, and a slight protection with fern, or 
other light covering, during severe frosty weather. I 
always preserve from 300 to 400 of the latest forced 
plants of the Above description, and after having care- 
fully reduced their balls, repot them in large thirty- 
two-sized pots in July, treating them afterwards pre- 
cisely as the others. I find these, by having their buds 
formed early, (through the slight forcing they have 
received,) and becoming very strong, are admirably 
adapted for the first crop, and always repay me for the 
extra trouble. Begin forcing with a temperature of 
40°, increasing to 50° when in bloom, and to 552 
when ripening.” 
“Mr. Brown, gardener to Lord Southampton, at 
Whittlebury Lodge, near Towcester, says, that Mr. 
Paxton’s method of preparing strawberry plants for 
forcing is a good one where time and trouble are of 
no consequence : but for the last fifteen years he has 
adopted a plan which answers well, and by which 
good strong plants are procured in one month from 
the present year’s runners. 
“The compost used is good strong loam, well mixed 
with rotten dung from the hot-bed linings; twenty- 
four-sized pots are the best for Keene’s Seedlings, and 
thirty-twos for Grove End Scarlets. The latter variety 
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