STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



490 SUMMER-HOUSES AND SEATS. 



The following are good varieties of early 

 and late strawberries : 



EARLY. 

 i. Vicomtesse Heri- 



cart de Thury. 

 Laxton's Noble. 

 King of Earlies. 

 John Ruskin. 

 5. Competitor. 

 Keen's Seedling. 

 Sir Joseph Pax- 

 ton. 



8. Dr. Hogg. 

 i). James Veitch. 

 TO. President. 

 ii. British Queen. 

 ii?. Gross Sucree. 

 i^. Royal Hautbois. 



LATE. 



14. Sir Charles 



Napier. 



15. Elton Pine. 



16. Eleanor. 



17. Frogmore Late 



Pine. 



18. Enchantress. 



19. Roden's Scarlet 



Pine. 



20. Unser Fritz. 



21. Wonderful. 



22. Aberdeen. 



23. Lord Suffield. 



24. Newton Seedling. 



25. Latest of all. 



Strawberry Plants in Pots: 

 Stacking in House. 



The stack can be built on any dry bot- 

 tom, the best possible position being, how- 

 ever, the south side of a wall or fence. In 

 such a position mark out a place a yard 

 wide or so, and of any convenient length, 

 according to the quantity of plants, and 

 spread upon it a layer of ashes 3 inches 

 thick. Place a row of pots on their sides 

 at the distance indicated from the fence, or 

 nearer, in proportion to the number of 

 plants or height of stack contemplated. 

 Fill up all between the pots, and the space 

 between the bottom of the pots, with dry 

 ashes or old tan, keeping the side next the 

 wall a little the highest. Then place 

 another layer of plants on the top of the 

 first, about 2 inches further back than the 

 other. Fill up as before, and repeat the 

 filling up, and layers of pots, until this space 

 is occupied, top of the wall or fence reached, 

 or all the plants provided for. The whole 

 will then present a sloping surface to the 

 sun. A boarded roof, 6 inches wider than 

 the bottom rows, should then project over 

 the top and slightly incline to the back ; 

 the front may be supported on stakes 

 driven in at intervals of 6 feet. Always 

 excepting the floor of a cool house, there is 

 no better mode of protecting and treating 



plants than this. They are kept dry, the 

 rost has little or no influence upon them, 

 : or if it is very severe a thatched hurdle 

 may be laid against them, and both pots 

 and plants are preserved in safety. 



Strawberry Supporters. 



The contrivance shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration for keeping straw 

 oerries from contact with the ground 

 when ripening, is one that will be found 

 useful in all gardens when strawberries are 

 largely grown and highly prized. It is 

 very simple, consisting only of a ring of 

 galvanised wire supported on three stakes 



STRAWBERRY SUH'OKTER. 



of the same material, which are thrust into 

 the ground. They are manufactured and 

 sold by Messrs. Reynolds and Co., wire- 

 work manufacturers, 57, New Compton 

 Street, London, W.C., at is. per dozen, or 

 us. per gross. Improved strawberry and 

 seedling supports are also supplied at mode- 

 rate prices by Messrs. Williams Brothers 

 and Co., Pershore Street and River Street, 

 Birmingham. 



Succulents. 



For management of Succulents, see 

 under their several headings cabbage, 

 lettuce, celery, rhubarb, &c. 



Summer-houses and Seats. 



Seats should be provided in every gar- 

 den, and the state of our atmosphere 

 renders it almost imperative that they 

 should be protected from the weather. 

 Hence the origin of rustic and archi- 



