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of runners. Then, again, the growing season of the Strawberry 

 is short, and more especially the fruiting period. 



During a comparatively brief time there is a large demand for 

 immediately available forms of plant-food, a demand that must 

 be met if the best results are to be obtained ; and it may be 

 stated that artificial fertilisers have a great advantage over farm- 

 yard manure in the culture of Strawberries, because they can be 

 varied in their constituents to suit the wants of the plants at 

 each period of their growth, and according to the character of 

 the soil at command. 



COPRINUS COMATUS (SHAGGY. CAP MUSHROOM). 



A most delicious edible native mushroom, extremely fond of manure (hence 

 the generic name), and frequently found in shrubberies and borders. It 

 should be eaten in a young state, and before the inky black fluid, which 

 characterises it at maturity, is emitted. 



