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ing. A sprinkling will be of no use : it must go down 

 deep, as a heavy rain would. Set the plants in the 

 evening, and shade them a few days with boards set 

 on edge, forming a sort of roof over them. Mulch 

 them, too, with short litter ; and it will be well, if the 

 plants be large, to remove some of the lower and 

 larger leaves. Planting can be done safely in spring 

 any time until the plants are in blossom — and all 

 summer, for that matter, with proper care. 



We have thus briefly sketched the principal opera- 

 tions in strawberry culture ; not in regular order, it is 

 true, but we hope so as to be understood. "We are not 

 writing a book, and cannot enter into all the details 

 with minuteness. We have said nothing of the soil, 

 and will only remark that any good garden soO. fit to 

 produce culinary vegetables, or any good farm land fit 

 for grain or root crops, will produce good strawberries ; 

 but it must be deeply ploughed, or trenched, say twenty 

 inches at least, and liberally manured with well-decom 

 posed stable manure or a good compost. The quantity 

 of manure must vary according to the degree of natural 

 fertility of the soil. In one case, a quantity equal to 

 six inches deep all over the surface would not be too 

 much ; while in other cases, half that would be enough. 



We would prefer not to make a strawberry planta- 

 tion twice on the same ground ; but when circumstances 

 render it inconvenient to change, rows of young plants 



