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with ashes, which seem peculiarly appropriate to the 

 fineness of fibre for which the root of this plant is 

 remarkable. 



Of strawberries there is an endless variety. Some 

 of the Virginia or Roseberry should be had for the 

 quality of coming early some of the hautboy sorts 

 for superior flavour and of the Alpine, if you will, 

 for lateness. But as new sorts are continually in- 

 troduced, and as renovation from seed is a decided 

 advantage, the best rule is to observe in any garden 

 a good variety, and obtain young plants about the 

 beginning of August. Set these in rows, eighteen 

 or twenty inches apart, and one foot distant in the 

 row. By planting at this early season, as the roots 

 get established before winter, and are not liable to 

 be thrown out by the frost, you will have a consider- 

 able crop the first year. Let the ground be well 

 manured before planting, and every second year 

 afterwards. In the course of five or six years a new 

 plantation should be made. Towards the end of 

 autumn the leaves should be mown, in order to give 

 the young buds, which are then forming for next 

 year's growth, the benefit of the free admission of 

 light and of air. By the time that you require a 

 new* plantation, some new species will have got into 

 vogue, and which, from its newness or change of 

 climate, perhaps will be more productive than plants 

 raised from those of your own garden ; and thus it is 

 unnecessary to particularize varieties, or to offer more 

 than these cursory remarks on the cultivation of this 

 excellent fruit. 



