Cultivation of the Strawberry. 417 



are under a proper state of cultivation. But if it be that 

 the plants, by any mode of growth, are rendered defective 

 in the blossom, then the proximity of some other variety 

 will certainly ensure a crop. Those cultivators, therefore, 

 who wish to guard against any emergency, may plant their 

 beds of such sorts as have a tendency to become sterile, in 

 the vicinity of the Old Virginia. Wherever the strawberry 

 is cultivated, a small spot of ground is generally selected 

 for the purpose, and as the Old Virginia is one of the earli- 

 est as well as best sorts, those who would have no anxiety 

 about a sure crop may plant a bed of this kind near their 

 large sorts. No neglect of cultivation will then fail to en- 

 sure an abundant supply of fruit. 



We are now instituting a course of experiments in con- 

 nexion with this subject, and hope to give our readers the 

 result in the course of another year. 



Art. IV. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New 

 Plants, figured in foreign periodicals ; with Remarks on 

 those recently i?itroduced to, or originated in, American 

 gardens, and additional information upon plants already 

 in cidtivation. 



Edwards^ s Botanical Register, or Ornamental Flower Gar- 

 den and Shrubbery. Each number containing from six to 

 eight plates ; with additional miscellaneous information, 

 relative to new plants. In monthly numbers ; 35. plain, 

 35, 6o?. colored. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering 

 Plants. Each number containing four colored plates. 

 Monthly, 25. M. each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to 

 the Duke of Devonshire. 



The Gardener's Chronicle, a stamped newspaper of Rural 

 Economy and General News. Edited by Prof Lindley. 

 Weekly. Price 6c?. each. 



Floricultural and Botanical Intelligence. New Rose.- — 

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