18 SELECTION OF SOIL. 



flavored in an open garden, with no shade but their 

 leaves. Alpines, and some other kinds, planted in the 

 northern shade of a fence or dwelling, will commence 

 later and continue longer in their bearing season. 



SELECTION OF SOIL. 



Kew land, recently disrobed of its forest, if of a 

 deep gravelly loam, we think is the hest adapted to 

 the strawberry, and next, a sandy loam ; but almost 

 any soil, even the heaviest clay, can be prepared, by 

 a liberal admixture of sand or gravel, so as to produce 

 the finest quality and a large crop of fruit. 



As has been intimated, as low, soft, moist, cool soil 

 as can be procured, consistently with depth and thorough 

 drainage^ is best adapted to the strawberry ; and yet 

 elevated knolls, and even sand-hills, with the precau- 

 tions above-named, have often succeeded well. 



Wet, spongy lands, except with a porous subsoil 

 susceptible of drainage ; and high, barren hills, with 

 a thin, flinty soil, are alike to be avoided. 



The strawberry, however, is so retentive of life, that 

 it will live in almost any soil ; but it will not produce 

 much fruit, unless the remedies are in some ^ay ap- 

 plied to the ungenial soils. 



