160 THE TREE PROPAGATOR AND PLANTER. 



The propagation of the Strawberry is simple. The 

 first good runners that come should be laid on the 

 surface of small pots filled with maiden loam, and 

 either pegged on the pot or a stone laid on it to keep 

 them from being removed. They will soon emit roots 

 and fill the pot, and as soon as this is the case separate 

 the runner or rooted plant from the mother, and 

 remove the pots. After a week or so, shift these into 

 6 or 7-inch pots, and set them in a sunny open spot, 

 and thoroughly soak them with water. Keep these 

 plants clean of all runners : these are for forcing ; for 

 sale they ma} 7 remain in the small pots. Runners will 

 strike root freely in any soil, and are generally used 

 for making Strawberry plantations. The seed may be 

 washed out of the pulp and sown in seed-pans to 

 obtain new sorts. 



The Filbert. 



The Filbert is a most desirable dry fruit, and being 

 much in request, a high price has to be paid for it on 

 account of its comparative scarcity. If, however, there 

 was a fixed determination to grow this nut in this 

 country more generally, we have ample means for doing 

 so. In the West of England it bears abundantly, far 

 above the produce of the northern counties, and much 

 earlier ; i.e. the plant bears much younger than it does 

 in the northern counties. I took particular notice of 

 this when I first came into the west, and the crop seems 

 to be certain. This is easy to be understood, and the 

 reason is that the climate is not subject to such severe 

 frosts as in the north, which frequently destroy the 

 flower, as it possesses no kind of covering to protect 

 it against them. 



I have noticed in the northern counties that in some 

 seasons the fruit-bearing flowers get considerably in 

 advance of the male flowers, consequently thej 7 die off 

 long before the latter can develop their pollen, which 

 when discharged in due time fertilises the fruit-bearing 

 flowers. This disparity in the north is another cause 



