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soot, nitrate of soda, &c., are recommended 

 by English writers ; but we hardly need them 

 in rich soils here. 



Propagation. The varieties of the straw- 

 berry, excepting the Bush Alpine, * easily 

 and rapidly propagate themselves by their 

 runners. They thus form a great number of 

 new plants every season. 



Transplanting. The strawberry may be 

 transplanted (that is the new plants of it,) in 

 August and September ; but in our climate it 

 is perhaps better to do this work in the spring. 

 Downing advises to select the new plants 

 from the runners of those old plants which 

 were the most productive the previous sum- 

 mer. Other plants, however, answer very 

 well. 



Setting in Rows. For market cultivation 

 of the strawberry on a large scale, having 

 prepared trenched or subsoiled and manur- 

 ed, the ground, let the new plants (so called) 

 be set out in rows three or three and a half feet 

 apart, and at any distance from each other in 

 the row, from two or three inches to as many 

 feet, according to the supply of the plants. 



* This variety is increased by dividing the roots. It may also 

 IMJ reproduced by sowing the seed as soon as it is ripe. 



