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asterisk is prefixed to thdse most worthy of cultivation in 
small gardens :— 
* Old Scarlet or Virginian. Swainstono Seedling. 
* Grove End Scarlet. * Old Pine or Carolina. 
* Keen’s Seedling. Wilmot’s Superb. 
* Roseberry. Myatt’s Pine. 
Downtown. Myatt’s British Queen. 
* Knevett’s. Large Flat Hautbois. 
* Elton. Prolific Hauthois. 
American Scarlet. Alpine, red and white. 
Coul Late Scarlet: Wood, red and white. 
The Elton and Keen’s Seedling excel in size and beauty ; 
Mystt’s Pine in delicious flavor, but the fruit of this last 
is produced sparingly: 
' The strawberry plant is propagated either from runners 
or from seed. When runners are employed, they are some- 
times planted in autumn, or rather as soon as they have 
struck root into the ground. Most commonly, however, 
they are permitted to remain unseparated from the parent 
plants till spring; a practice not to be commended, for it 
debilitates the old plants, and prevents the earth between 
the rows from being stirred and cleaned: deep digging be- 
tween rows is calculated to destroy the roots, and ought to 
be avoided. As, upon the whole, spring planting seems 
preferable, it would perhaps be well to adopt the practice 
of some gardeners, who are at pains to prick out the off- 
sets, as soon as they are rooted into beds of rich soil, from 
which they are transplanted into their proper places early 
in the spring 
The desire of new varieties has encouraged the practice 
of propagating by seed; and Keen, Knevett, Myatt, and 
others, have been extremely successful. Mr. Knight hav- 
ing observed that the young runners of the alpine straw- 
berry flower and ripen fruit the first year, was led to adopt 
this mode of reproduction, and followed it with the hap- 
