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ground, instead of leaving the canes at four fifths of 

 their length. 



This operation may be practised upon both the Red 

 and the Yellow Antwerp, as well as upon several of the 

 other varieties, from which good crops of fruit may be 

 obtained in August. 



The double-bearing varieties should have every alter- 

 nate stool cut down annually : these will furnish an 

 abundance of fruit so late as September, and in a fine 

 warm autumn even to a later period. 



As the finest and best of these fruits are, in all cases, 

 the produce of strong and well-ripened canes, it becomes 

 necessary that the stools should have every advantage 

 afforded them. This may be readily effected by causing 

 all the former year's canes to be cut down to the ground 

 as soon as they have produced their crop, instead of 

 allowing them to stand till the winter or spring : this 

 removes an unnecessary incumbrance, and at a season 

 when sun and air are of infinite importance to the 

 young canes, consequently to the succeeding crop of 

 fruit. 



CHAR XXL 



STRAWBERRIES. 

 CLASS I. Alpine and Wood Strawberries. 



The habits and general character of these are very 

 similar ; the principal difference being in the shape of 

 the fruit, which is usually conical in the former, and 

 more globose in the latter. The Alpines produce 

 fruit in the autumn, which the Wood Strawberries do 

 not. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 149. 



1. RED ALPINE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 89. 



Fraisier des Alpes. Duhamel, No. 7. t. 2. 



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