VI. LIST OP FRUITS. 



the runner, if it extend to a yard or two, as it frequently 

 will, would, perhaps, produce ten or a dozen plants. 

 All these plants, if cut from the runner and planted out, 

 would grow 5 but all of them would not bear the first 

 year if so planted out. The runners begin to start 

 usually in May, not making much progress at first, on 

 account of the coldish weather 5 but, by the middle of 

 June, the runners have produced an abundance of plants. 

 You take the earliest and stoutest of these, plant them 

 out before the end of the first week in August, and these 

 plants will bear abundantly the next year. Great care 

 must be taken in this planting. The ground should be 

 made rich and fine : the root is but small, and the 

 weather is hot : therefore, the root should be fixed well 

 in the ground with the fingers j and a little rain or pond 

 water should be given to the plants. They should be 

 attended to very carefully to see that worms do not tear 

 them out of the ground or move them at all : the 

 ground should be moved frequently between them, ap- 

 proaching as near to the plant as possible. By Novem- 

 ber, the plants will be stout : the winter, however severe, 

 will do them no injury; and, in the month of June, 

 when only a year old, they will produce a crop worth fifty 

 times the labour bestowed upon them. When planted 

 out, they ought to be placed from three to five in a 

 clump, each plant at a few inches from the other. The 

 clumps should be in rows of three feet apart, and, if it 

 were four, it would be so much the better, and at three feet 

 apart in the row. To cultivate strawberries in beds, suf- 

 fering them to cover the whole of the ground with their 

 runners and young plants, is a miserable method, pro- 

 ceeding from the suggestions either of idleness, or of 

 greediness, and sure to lead to the defeating the object 



