BOOK OF FRUITS. 41 



under trees. The Alpine strawberries, how- 

 ever, admit of being placed in a more shady 

 situation, as it is during the hot and dry sea- 

 son of the year that they are intended for 

 bearing ; which they will not do if allowed to 

 suffer from drought ; few are willing to take 

 the pains to water them as much as they 

 would require. 



Transplanting. The best time for doing 

 this is in the Spring ; but if performed with 

 proper care, they succeed nearly or quite as 

 well when transplanted early in Autumn, say 

 in the early part of September. The ground 

 should be well manured and dug, a month be- 

 fore transplanting. The chief care required 

 when the work is done in Autumn, is to guard 

 against the plants being thrown out by frost, 

 which is best effected by treading the soil 

 closely about the roots. 



Culture. The distance of the plants asun- 

 der, where the soil is rendered sufficiently fer- 

 tile, should be, for the larger varieties (such as 

 Methven and Keen's seedling,) twenty inches 

 from row to row and fifteen inches in the row ; 

 the smaller varieties may be a little nearer to- 

 gether. This distance may seem too great, 



