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with safety, and transplanted into the open border, a part of 

 the plants may be left in the pits, in such a manner as if they 

 had been planted therein, for the express purpose of producing 

 their crop. This being attended to, new potatoes may be had 

 occasionally for the table after the middle of April ; whilst a 

 succession from the same plants may be afforded by the 

 middle, or towards the end, of May." 



Beans, both common and kidney, may be raised in a similar 

 manner to the potatoes, only placing three or four seeds on 

 each piece of turf. 



Cauliflower plants, planted on pieces of turf in autumn, will 

 remove with much greater facility in the following spring, and 

 therefore the plants may be allowed to remain under glass till 

 they attain a large size, and then they may be removed to the 

 open border without checking their growth. 



" Strawberries. — Upon the same principle, turf may be 

 employed with advantage in the forcing of strawberries, by 

 means of which the use of pots might be altogether dispensed 

 with. This will be evident, from the following description. 

 At the proper season of planting the strawberries, let a small 

 piece of ground be formed into beds about four feet wide, and 

 a quantity of turf be taken and cut into pieces of about five or 

 six inches square, which should be placed in a regular manner 

 over the surface of the beds. A quantity of fresh loam, richly 

 manured, should uniformly be applied to the surface of the 

 turf, previous to planting ; and in order to furnish large stools, 

 four or five plants should be separately planted in each piece 

 of turf. This may be done to best advantage in the early part 

 of the spring season, with plants taken from the runners of the 

 preceding year ; or, it may otherwise be accomplished with 

 good effect in the end of summer, with plants selected from 

 the runners produced the same year. If due attention be paid 

 to watering in dry weather, the plants will be found to grow 

 vigorously, so that, by the end of the autumn season, their 

 roots will be fully established in the turf, and they may there- 

 fore be removed to the forcing-pit, with nearly as little- injury 

 done to them as if they had been planted in pots. It will be 

 readily perceived, that, in this case, the strawberry plants, with 

 their roots in possession of the turf, must of necessity be 

 planted in a ball of earth or decayed compost, prepared in the 

 forcing-pit appropriated for that purpose. In regard to the 

 kind of strawberry fittest for our purpose, I may mention, that 

 among the various kinds that I have yet become acquainted 

 with, I consider the roseberry the most valuable for the turf 

 mode : though it can by no means be allowed to be the earliest, 



