12 THE CULTURE OF 



Much Warmth required for the Pine-apple Strawberry. 



ed to their culture; and from the advan- 

 tages hitherto derived by its having been 

 applied, we are free to recommend it as 

 the surest preventive of miscarriage from 

 drought, on the hottest soils. With a proper 

 proportion of the manures pointed out as 

 most cool, we consider this calculated to 

 form a very superior and most genial com- 

 post for the cultivation of the Strawberry 

 in all its varieties. 



That species of Frag aria, formerly 

 called the green, or Pine-apple Straw- 

 berry, with greenish fruit, and when ripe 

 tinged with a faint shade of red, has been 

 by many considered as requiring greater de- 

 gree of warmth in its cultivation than any 

 other variety ; on which Miller has remarked, 

 that, unless it be planted in moist loam soil, 

 it is a bad bearer ; adding, however, that in 

 land where it succeeds, it merits cultivation. 

 A proof this, that the soil has not always 



