THE STBAWDEnuv.] I'KACTICE OF 11 OUTI CULTUKE. [the cnA^JBKuuY. 



tinuing varieties, and that by seeds for procur- 

 ing them. 



Tilt: RASPUIilRRY. 



This is a imtivo of Britain, and ia vitv often 

 found in woods where the situation ia low and 

 uioist. The fruit ia grateful ; but sugar used 

 with it heightens the llavour, which helps to 

 make it much esteemed when niado into sweet- 

 meats, jams, tarts, and sauces. The best 

 varieties are the Eed Antwerp, Yellow Aut- 

 vrerp, Baruet, Cornish, Ked Globe, Belle 

 de Fontenay, Coxe's Honey, Kiver's Large- 

 fruited Monthly, Eoger's Victoria, Prauconia, 

 White Monarch, White Globe, and Falstaff; 

 which last is the most profitable. 



In propagating the raspberry, " varieties can 

 be perpetuated by young sucker-shoots, rising 

 pleuteously from the root in spring and sum- 

 mer. When these have completed one season's 

 growth, they are proper to detach with roots 

 for planting, either in the autumn of the same 

 year or the next spring, in February or March, 

 but not later than the middle of April. These 

 new plants will bear some fruit the first year, 

 and furnish a succession of strong bottom 

 shoots for full bearing the second season. 

 New varieties are easily raised from seed ; 

 and they come into bearing the second 

 year." 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



This fragrant, delicious, and universally- 

 esteemed fruit, is a native of temperate or cold 

 climates, such as Europe and America. In the 

 catalogue of the London Horticultural Society, 

 no fewer than 112 varieties are given; but 

 the following are sufficient for any garden, as 

 they are the most worthy of cultivation : — 

 Cuthili's Black Prince, for its early ripening 

 qualities; Grove-end Scarlet, most suitable 

 for preserving, on account of its fine carmine 

 colour ; Elton, on account of its late ripening ; 

 British Queen ; jNIyatt's Pine ; Deptford Pine ; 

 Eleanor; Ingram's Prince of Wales; Keen's 

 Seedling; Princess Eoyal ; Princess Alice 

 Maud ; Trollop's Victoria ; Nicholson's Ajax ; 

 White and Ked Alpine; Sir Harry Myatt's 

 Mammoth ; Large Plat Hautbois, and Comte 

 de Paris. 



Scientific gardeners have difierent modes of 

 growing the strawberry ; and among these we 

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believe that the experiments of Mr. Cuthill, of 

 Cuinberwell, have been very eucoeHHful. The 

 present writer has been shown, by tliia exoellciifc 

 grower, numerous medals preaeuted to hun aa 

 prizes, for the various varieties he has produced 

 by his judicious mode of cultivating this fruit. 

 '* The plants multiply spontaneously every sum- 

 mer, aa well by suckers from the parent btein aa 

 by the numerous runners, all of which rooting 

 and forming a plant at every joint, n cpiire only 

 removal to a bed where there is room for theia 

 to fiourish. Each of these, separately planted, 

 bears a fine fruit the following season, and 

 will bear in full perfection the second summer. 

 A plantation of the Alpine yields fruit the same 

 year that it is made. The wood and the al- 

 pine come quite true from seed, and bring a 

 finer fruit than from offsets. Tlie other species 

 are uniformly propagated by oflsets, except the 

 intention be to try for new varieties." 



In reference to the soil and site most suit- 

 able for strawberries, Neill says that they are 

 generally placed in a compartment of the 

 garden by themselves, and it should be one 

 which is freely exposed to sun and air. They 

 are sometimes, however, planted in single 

 rows, as edgings to borders ; and in this way 

 they often produce great crops. In either 

 case, care must be taken to re-plant them 

 every fourth or fifth year at the furthest. The 

 alpine and wood species may be placed in 

 situations rather cool and shady ; perhaps as 

 an edging in the shrubbery. In such places 

 they produce their fruit perfectly well, and 

 late in the season, which is desh-able. 



THE CRANBERRY. 



This plant is a native of North America, 



and was known to Miller, who, of the tribe in 



general, says—" They can only be cultivated 



for curiosity in gardens, for they will not 



thrive much, nor produce fruit out of their 



native swamps and bogs." The culture of 



' the cranberry, however, need not now be 



confined to swamps and bogs. Salisbury 



says that it may be cultivated very suc- 



cessfully in situations not positively wet, if 



' only planted in bog earth, which retains its 



' moisture longer than any other soil. Hallet 



I found both the cranberry and the bilberry to 



succeed perfectly in a dry bed of peat earth ; 



1 80 tiiat it may be cultivated in any garden 



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