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means.they are not fo liable to be bruifed, and appear mote 
ney when ferved at table, and are more daa 
picked up out of the sai or bafket for eating. The 
ftrawberries are, howev r, very commonly gat athered without 
any ftalky part, being pate picked clean out of their 
cups, efpecially when. defigned to eat wit 
Method d of Culture in Fot-houfes, €'c.—Befides the above 
method of raifing this fort of fruit in the natural ground, it 
. may be brought to a at a mach earlier period, by upon 
ee in sarin tere peer lgrie againft hot walls, and 
ung or bark hot-bed frames, &c.; but 
vee faeeoed belt j in the facceffion pine-apple houfe. 
The forts moft fuitable in this intention are the different 
fmaller forts, as the fearlet, the alpine, and the wood ftraw- 
berry. T he ipa | aor too large for this Deepetce 
p to their 
from penetrating chvsucl the fides. When placed 
hear a wall, pale, or hedge-fence, expofed to the eaft or 
rth-eaft, they fucceed-better than in a warm fituation, as 
they are not forced too forward; after this they only*require 
to-be fecured againit froft. 
In the {pring foliowing the plants will have filled the pots 
with their roots by the en 
turned out of them and their 
into penny pots filled v Ww a the | like loam 
into the ground, in a coe to remain till the 
io ying faummer ; uae ae ERI e they muft ept Sm 
e all the runners ‘taken off as faft a 
And if there fhould be any Aca 
produced, they fhould. ee — off, in order to haye the 
plants as ftrong as pofli 
s the enc 
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the wails ;. and they may be placed very clofe to each other 
as. they are defigned to remain ie ere only till they eu 
ripened their fruit. It is always the beft way to pot 
plants a year before they are forced 
‘When the fires are lighted deox the latter end of De- 
cember the flrawberries in t 
end of March; but if the feafon 
wv 
ould prave very cold, 
ta : 
When intended to be forced ina pine-apple ftove, and 
there is not room te plunge them in the tan-bed, the plants 
pared, an 
foil, arid re-plunged hot 
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ober, or ele if fe ietn 
into a warmer fitua- 
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it will be the middle of April oe they are fit for: ‘the - 
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fun and air; as when placed to a heiee thie agar draw up 
weak, and the flowers drop without producing fru 
In the management the a in the firft ae there 
muft be care taken to with water when they 
a Nee in oe ftove eri 
as the earth in the pots will dry pretty faft when they fland 
n the pavement of the hot-houfe, or on fhelv res, they mutt 
be duly beri, but not too much given at atime, which 
would hurt t 
Where pr eee managed, they produce ae fruit in Fe. 
bruary, or the beginning of the following m 
When the fruit has been wholly aay pee the plants, 
they fhould be put out of the ftove, and from the borders 
near the hot wall, that they may not rob the erates of 
their nourifhment and fupport.. 
here is another method of nes this, fruit early, 
which is on hot-beds, where there is not the above co 
firft violen ay eae is ae sing. on what is 
eel neat’s dung, ver ae hot-bed to keep peer a 
heat. The plants ould then flog in the. pots 
dung. This bed brings them to flo y the end of 
February, or the beginn ing 0 of March, when another mild 
hot-bed mutt be prepared to receive them on the hot 
dung fome neat’s dung, about two inches thick, being f{pread 
equally, to aoa the heat from injuring the roots of the 
plants, and upon this two inches of a loamy mould; whee 
lain two days to warm, the plants fhould be taken 
tween the balls with loamy. earth: the roots of the pl 
foon ftrike out into the frefh earth, which ftrengthens their 
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thefe means a "a fucceffion of this fruit may. be obtained 
from March, April, or even earlier ; and in the open air, on 
June to OGtober and November, ‘fhould the — prove 
mild; for not only the alpine, but the white ftravy- 
berry will continue bearing in tolerable shannee: until the 
n frofts come on, ena in warm fituations, and 
foils m a too light. 
The heat required in bringing ftrawberries forward at aa 
early ‘cata is fuch as is fufficient for forcing the cherry and 
the peach, 
In order to have new varieties of the Aawberry, feed 
sabes be employed. ~'To obtain thefe, the ripe berries fhould 
be put into a veffel of water, ad the oe broken-and rubbed 
with the hand, fo that it may be diffi led i n the = and 
wathed nae dad tely 
fhould then 
the {pring ona tories of cic light earth, viene them 
watered and free from weeds during the fammer feafon. See 
STRAWBERRY. 
FRAGILITAS a in. Sus: gery, is a very remark 
