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sunny one, as thus they bear more, and finer fla- 

 voured fruit. Some of the scarlets should be planted 

 under warm walls to come early. The woods bear 

 shade as natural to them, and the alpines do tolerably 

 well in it: As lengthening the season of fruit is a 

 desirable circumstance ; for these three sorts (at 

 least) the situation should be various. 



The most proper time for planting the strawberry 

 is \hejirst moist weather in September, (or even 

 earlier) that they may be established in the ground 

 before winter, and they will bear the better the first 

 year ; Frost is apt to throw up late planted ones, 

 and injures, if not destroys them. Those planted 

 in spring often suffer from drought, and bear very 

 little the first year, except the alpines : Choose for- 

 ward runners for planting, and let them be from beds 

 in full bearing, i. e. pf two or three years old ; for 

 plants from old beds are npt so fruitful : Take care 

 also they come from be,ds producing fruit good in its 

 kind, and true as to sort; Much depends on this, 

 see Nursery. Press the mould to the roots, give 

 them a watering, and again once or twice, if the 

 weather proves dry. Some gardeners let them run 

 over the beds, which in a dry light soil, may be pro- 

 per ; but in this case, a greater distance should be 

 allowed them at planting. 



If the alpine sort be planted on a warm border, 

 eighteen inches asunder, and suffered to spread, the 

 first runners will fruit the same year, and sometimes 

 this prolific strawberry bears till November. 



Fresh plantations of strawberries should be made 

 every fourth year, though in a good soil, and with 

 good management they will continue longer ; so that 

 where they are suffered to run, the plants being fre- 

 quently looked over, and old ones removed, beds 

 have borne tolerably for ten years. In a dry sea- 

 gon, such full covered beds have the advantage ; 



