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Farcins. Strawberries. 



23. Large Orangery. 



24. Back Entrance to the Forcing 

 Houses from the Street. 



25. Basin of Water connected with 

 the River. 



26. River Neva. 



105 



27. Streets surrounding the Garden 

 and Palace. 



28. Small Rivulet which carries off 

 the Water from both Cascades into 

 the River. 



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29. Iron Bridge over the winding 50. Dry Ditch. 

 Canal in the Nursery. 



Some handsome elevations of the hot-houses, and other 

 buildings, and some views of the palaces and grounds, pro- 

 cured for us by our correspondent with extraordinary pains 

 and trouble, we are obliged to defer for the present. 



Art. II. On a Mode qf preparing Strawberries for early 

 forcing, as practised at Courtlands. By Mr. William 



MlTCHINSON. 



Sir, 



I communicate to you a method of preparing strawberry 

 plants for early forcing, which, as it is not practised by any 

 other gardener, as far as I know, I presume to be quite new. 

 Should you deem it worthy of a place in the Gardener's 

 Magazine, I hope it may prove acceptable to those of your 

 readers who are in the habit of forcing this delicious fruit 

 through the gloomy months of our winter. 



About the beginning or latter end of June, according to 

 the forwardness of the season, take a sufficient number of pots, 

 of about five inches in diameter, filled with very rich loam ; 

 plunge them to the brim in lines, four or five inches apart, in 



