THE STRAWBERRY. 



The most favourirble Soils. 



and shaded situations in which the wild 

 varieties, indigenous to this country, as Fra- 

 garia sylvestris, or Strawberry of the Woods, 

 is usually found growing, where the plants 

 are spontaneously produced, and their fruit 

 arrive at perfection without the means of 

 cultivation; whereas, such are rarely to be 

 found growing on dry soils, and in open and 

 airy exposures.* 



A further argument in favour of this idea, 

 is, the liberal disposition of these plants to 

 increase by runners, freely emitting fibres at 

 every joint ; to receive and nourish which 

 shade and soft soils are admirably calcu- 

 lated, whilst dry soils and exposed open 

 situations will prove unfavourable in the 

 extreme. 



* Miller, and others, observe, that the early scarlet 

 fruited Strawberry is a native of woods, in Virginia ; and 

 others assert, the large Carolinian to be an inhabitant of 

 sylvatic situations in that country. 

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