New Principles of Gardening. 
and foon afterwards gather’d very good Fruit from them. And 
whatthen? why nothing; for ’tis, and has been for many Years 
paft, a common Prattice, to my certain Knowledge, amongtt di- 
vers Gard’ners to plant at that Time, their Multitude of Bufi- 
nefs nota dmitting of planting fooner. But to return: 
Strawberries in general, do not love rich Land equally ; there- 
fore that Preparation of Soil as will fuit this Kind, will de/froy 
or v#im another; as for Inftance, Land richly dung’d produces 
the belt Wood and Hauthoy-Strawterries; and if Scarlet-Straw- 
berries be planted therein, the Produc will be nothing but an 
Lnfinite Quantity of Leaves, with little or no Fruit; and on the 
contrary, if Scarlet Strawberries be planted in frefh mellow 
Land without Dung, they will produce Fruit in great Plenty. 
Hence it appears, that the judicious Mr. Bradley knew nothing 
of the Culture of Strawberries, when he fo much depended up- 
on the fuppofed Practice of the Hammerfinith Gardeners, whofe 
Rules, as he calls them, he hath prefcribed to the World, for the 
Management of Strawberries, without taking the leaft Notice 
of the different Soils they delight in. Vide his New Improve- 
ments, Part Ill. Page 48. 
His Directions there given is general, viz. the fame Land 
forthe Scardet as for the Wood and Hautboy, which mutt be 
dung’d too with Horfe-Dung and Sea-Coal Afbes, and dige’d or 
trench’d in the Ground in February, and then to plant the Straw- 
berry Plants or Runners (by him called Sips, a new Term) 
therein, at about eight Inches apart. Now all Mankind as are 
Gardeners, knows that the Scarlet-Strawberry and Hautboy_ 
are never planted nearer than a Foot one Way, and fifteen In- 
ches the other, at leaft, and very often eighteen Inches: But for 
Wood- Strawberries his Diftance of eight Inches is very right, 
and his Preparation of Land alfo, if they have no other Straw- 
berries at Hammerfmith, than Woods and Hautboys. I own I 
have made a long Digreffion, and it is high Time to return to 
to the Culture of Strawberries in general, which is the Subje€t 
that led me into it. | 
Scarlet-Strawherries muft be planted in Rows, about fifteen 
or eighteen Inches apart, and their Diftance in the Rows one 
Foot. They mutt be carefully ring’d all Summer, and digg’d 
between in the Winter ; and being thus kept in fingle Roots, will 
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