and we think they would answer a gooa pur- 

 pose here. 



" To accelerate the ripening of strawber- 

 ries," says Downing," it is only necessary to 

 plant the rows or beds on the south side of a 

 wall or tight fence. A still simpler mode is 

 to throw up a ridge of earth three feet high, 

 running east and west, and to plant it in rows 

 on the south side." Ten days or more may 

 be gained in this way ; and if later fruit is de- 

 sired, rows planted on the north side would 

 probably have their fruiting retarded nearly 

 as much. 



Cultivation in Alternate Strips. This is an 

 easy mode of renewing the plants, considera- 

 bly practiced near Boston. On the third sum- 

 mer from planting, suffer the runners to grow 

 and root into the spaces between the rows. 

 (See above, Setting in Rows ;) then, in the 

 fall or spring, dig up the old plants and your 

 new rows are already formed in what were 

 last year the spaces between the rows. At 

 the end of three years, repeat the process and 

 so on, not forgetting to spade in a generous 

 quantity of compost manure whenever you 

 dig up the old rows. 



The Bush Alpine. Strawberries, having 



