STRAWBERRIES 9 
Queen and Empress of India; Lord Kitchener, a cross 
between Waterloo and British Queen; and Veitch’s 
Perfection, which has the same parentage as the latter. 
Nor must one omit to mention the work of Mr 
Carmichael among strawberries, for his varieties are 
well known in the south of Scotland; the best are 
Wm. Carmichael, Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales, 
and Queen of Denmark. 
SoIL AND SITUATION 
Strawberries do not flourish equally well in all kinds 
of soils, but, fortunately, they yield good crops in most 
kinds, provided reasonable attention is paid them. In 
pure sand or solid clay no one would dream of making 
plantations, but those who are ever blaming the soil 
with which they have to deal should remember that 
light and hot mediums may be improved by the addition 
of some clay, farm-yard manure, and decaying vegetable 
matter; while, on the other hand, a cold clayey soil 
generally needs only to be drained, exposed to sun, 
frost and wind by rough trenching (or ploughing, in 
the case of fields), and manured with stable litter to 
become fertile. An ideal strawberry soil is a fairly 
deep, strong loam, sufficiently drained, either naturally 
or artificially, to keep it from becoming cold or water- 
logged during the wettest season, and yet sufficiently 
retentive to bring good crops to maturity even in a 
season of drought. On such a soil as this the necessity 
of manuring is considerably reduced, while the profitable 
duration of the plantation is also extended. 
As regards situation the private gardener has generally 
not a very wide choice, and his crops have to be grown 
in the prescribed area of the kitchen garden; but, where 
experience and intelligence are brought into play, he 
can, by the selection of various sites, secure a regular 
