The Strawberry Book. *4I1 
sults than to force them at once. This rest may be 
taken through the month of December, and the plants 
brought into the green-house the first of the new year. 
The pots can be put in any part of the house until the 
vines start, and they should be watered at first very spar- 
ingly. It is of much importance that the start the plants 
make should be very gradual. 
As soon as the plants begin to grow, the pots should be 
brought close to the glass. This is important, as they need 
all the light they can get; and if away from the glass they 
will grow up towards it weak and spindling. Water 
the pots carefully with guano water, made by dissolving - 
four or five pounds of guano in a barrel of water. Keep 
the runners cut off, and if the red spider appears, syringe 
the vines early and late, when they are not in blossom. 
If the aphis appears, he will have to be destroyed by 
fumigation with tobacco. When the vines are in blossom, 
give them a little more air than at other times. A tem- 
perature of seventy-five degrees by day, and ten or fifteen 
degrees less by night, will be found about right. The crop 
will be ripe in from ten to fourteen weeks after the vines 
are brought into the green-house. 
For forcing, a one-sided house with a very steep roof 
‘will be found best, the whole roof, or rather the whole 
house, being occupied by a steep stage, close to the glass, 
each step of the stage holding one row of plants. The 
plants are examined and handled from a walk behind them. 
A very good autumnal crop may be obtained from the 
plants that have been forced, by turning them out into a 
bed in the open ground in April. The Triomphe de Gand, 
in particular, will do well in this way, and will make enor- 
mous stools if the runners be clipped during the summer. 
