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bed with old plants. After the beds are planted, they should be kept as free from 

 woods as possible, and the runners cut about three times a season. In the autumn, 

 he says that he has the space between the rows dug up, and, where practicable, 

 some fresh manure laid in. Ho tells us, also, that different kinds of Strawberries 

 require ditforent sorts of soil. The Pine Strawberry, which is the most difficult one 

 from which to secure a good crop, requires a light loamy soil, while the Hautbois, or 

 " Hautboy," as it is commonly called, thrives best in a light soil well manured. The 

 Wood Strawberry is best raised from seed ; the Alpine variety also must always bo 

 raised from seed, which should be sown in a bed of rich earth early in the spring. 

 This sort of Strawberry exceeds all others in quickness of bearing, for it yields a good 

 crop at the end of one year. 



Mr. Atkinson describes a method of making Strawberry-beds which he saw at 

 Chatham, and which he thought excellent. The beds were upon flat ground, each 

 about three feet wide, and between them were trenches nine inches wide, and Jour- 

 inch walls of brick on each side of the trenches to keep the earth up : these trenches 

 were about the depth of two or three layers of bricks, and were for the purpose of 

 holding water, which was supplied from a pump whenever the ground was dry while 

 the plants were in fruit. By this means a much larger crop of fruit was obtained, 

 and the plants continued bearing much longer than in beds where there were no 

 trenches for water. 



According to this plan, a very large extent of Strawberry-ground is watered with 

 very little labour, and it has the advantage of letting the water to the| roots of the 

 plants, so as to keep the ground moist without hardening the surface, as is the case 

 when the tops of beds are watered with watering-pots. 



In all treatises on horticulture, we have extensive directions as to the methods 

 of forcing Strawberries in hothouses and pits : some kinds will afford a crop of fruit 

 in a hothouse early in the spring, and if carefully removed and placed in the open 

 gi'ound, will yield another crop in September. 



Stjb-Trlbe II.— DALIBAEDE^. 



Calyx slightly concave or flattish ; segments usually valvate in 

 aestivation. Ovules 2, attached near the style. Styles nearly ter- 

 minal, deciduous or withering. Fruit of numerous small drupes 

 cohering together, inserted on a dry receptacle. Seed solitary. 



GENUS 7X— RUBUS. Linn. 



Calyx concave or flattish, 5-partite ; segments all in one row, 

 without an epicalyx of bracts. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. 

 Carpels numerous, with 2 collateral suspended ovules (one of which 

 is abortive) in each. Styles nearly terminal, deciduous. Ecccp- 

 tacle conical or cylindrical, spongy. Achenes pulpy and drupa- 

 ceous, persistent or sometimes deciduous. 



Shrubs or undershrubs, with procumbent arched or erect stems, 

 which are usuaUy prickly and biennial. Leaves digitate or pinnate, 



