162 FRUIT GARDEN. 



ject; and, with great acuteness and discrimination, has 

 removed much ambiguity, and finally settled the names 

 of the existing varieties. His paper, which is well worth 

 the' perusal of every student of horticulture, is in the 

 sixth volume of the London Transactions. In the se- 

 cond edition of the Catalogue of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, no fewer than 112 varieties are enu- 

 merated. But the following are sufficient, and an aste- 

 risk is prefixed to those most worthy of cultivation in 

 small gardens : — 



* Old Scarlet or Virginian. Swainstone Seedling. 



* Grove End Scarlet. * Old Pine or Carolina. 

 :^ Keen's Seedling. Wilmot's Superb. 



* ■ Roseberry. Myatt's Pine. 



Downton. Myatt's British Queen. 



^ Knevett's. ^ Large Flat Ilautbois. 



* Elton. * Prolific Ilautbois. 

 American Scarlet. * Alpine, red and white. 

 Coul Late Scarlet. * Wood, red and white. 



The Elton and Keen's Seedling excel in size and 

 beauty; Myatt's Pine in delicious flavor, but the fruit 

 of this last is produced sparingly. 



The strawberry plant is propagated either from run- 

 ners or from seed. When runners are employed, they 

 are sometimes planted in autumn, or rather as soon as 

 they have struck root into the ground. Most commonly, 

 however, they are permitted to remain unseparated 

 from the parent plants till spring; a practice not to be 

 commended, for it debilitates the old plants, and pre- 

 vents the earth between the rows from being stirred 

 and cleaned : deep digging between rows is calculated 

 to destroy the roots, and ought to be avoided. As, 

 upon the whole, spring planting seems preferable, it 



