TREATISE ON FRUITS. 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



THE leading design is to prove, that the 

 STRAWBERRY is to be considered a plant of 

 shade, naturally, or a native of moist and 

 shady situations, which clearly appears, 

 by arguments we have adduced, that it is, 

 and that it is consequently unfit to plant 

 on all soils^, and in every situation indis~ 

 criminately : and to point out and recommend 

 a system by which their culture may be ef- 

 fected, with the utmost certainty of obtain- 

 ing ample crops of superlatively large and 

 fully ripe fruit in the driest seasons 9 (in which 

 their fruitage generally fails from drought or 

 heat,) on being protected by temporary shade, 



