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In cutting away these runners care must be taken 

 to preserve all the true leaves without touching 

 them. 



In layering strawberries for the next year it is 

 a good plan to put them into boxes filled with two 

 parts loam and one part decayed horse manure. 

 Make the soil firm and fasten one runner on the 

 top of it with a small peg thrust into the soil. 

 When the box is nearly full of roots sever the 

 plant from the parent and plant out in their per- 

 manent quarters. 



All runners must be pinched off, as they show 

 where fruit is the chief object. 



Though it is necessary, to produce good crops 

 of fine strawberries, that they must be re-planted 

 every third or fourth year in deep and well-manured 

 ground, yet there are some varieties will continue 

 to produce abundance of fruit for years undisturbed 

 — for instance, the fine old-fashioned strawberry 

 Keen's Seedling ; British Queen, very large and 

 very fine flavour ; Empress of India, similar to 

 British Queen ; Lord Sheffield, very firm and good 

 flavour ; Gunton Park, very rich in flavour, hand- 

 some and hardy, firm, and travels well ; Sir J. 

 Paxton, very large and handsome and good colour ; 

 President, very large and hardy, and useful for 

 all purposes ; Waterloo, a late fruit and of good 

 flavour ; Garibaldi, for preserving, very productive ; 

 Elton Pine, an early strawberry, and good for pre- 

 serving ; La Grosse Sucree, bears large fine-flavoured 

 fruit, heavy cropper ; Dr. Hogg, very large but 

 late, and does not succeed in all soils ; Monsieur 

 Fournier, has immense fruit of a deep purplish 

 maroon colour, with dark crimson flesh and very 

 delicious flavour ; Lucie Boissellot, a very fine late 



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