The Gardener*s New Director. 173 



ground fuckers. But I have experienced them to be as 

 good, and have produced as fine Iruit from them, as 

 from any other plants. 



Towards the end of September your fruiting-frame 

 will be almoft clear. Therefore, if you made ufe of 

 tan only for the pit, it fhould now be icreened, that the 

 fmaller parts of it may be feparated from the greater, 

 thofe however have both of them their refpedive ufes. 

 The larger Ihould be fpread of an equal thicknefs all 

 over the pit. You fhould then have a fufficient quan- 

 tity of new tan to raife the bed with to its proper iieight, 

 mixing them well together. This, with the lining, will 

 maintain a moderate heat for five or fix months. The 

 fmaller parts will be ferviceable to cover the dung-beds 

 with, wherein you are to raife your fuccefiion plants. 



Having gone through the whole procefs of the Pine- 

 apple, from the management of the crowns and fuckers 

 to the ripening of the fruit; it remains that proper no- 

 tice be taken of the white infeQs which are found about 

 the Pine, and which are always injurious, if but a little 

 reglefted, and frequently deftruftive to the plants: but 

 as their extirpation has been fufficiently direfted by Sir 

 fames JufUce^ as well as Mr. Millery it will be unne- 

 ceffary to give any more on this head. 



Dlre^ions for making Plantations of Strawberries. 



TH E only forts of Strawberries worth cultivating in 

 this country, are, The Virginian or Scarlet, the 

 Giobe Hautboy, and the Greenifh White or Pine-apple 

 Strawberry, fo called from the refembiance it has to the 

 tafte of the Pine-apple. The culture of thefe is gene- 

 rally the fame. Whenever you defign to make plantations 

 of them, let the foil be a good fre(h loam, to be very well 

 trenched in Augufiy and laid up in ridges in winter, to be 

 meliorated by tlie fnow and froft, turning it over the fpring 

 following. Should the ground be in good heart, do not 



dung 



