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fully reduced their balls, repot them in large tliirty- 

 two-sized pots in July, treating tliem afterwards pre- 

 cisely as the others. I find these, by having their buds 

 formed early, (through the slightest forcing they have 

 received), and becoming very strong, are admirably 

 adapted for the first crop, and always repay me for the 

 extra trouble. Begin forcing with a temjDerature of 

 40^, increasing to 50^ when in bloom, and to 55"^ when 

 ripening." 



''Mr. Brown, gardener to Lord Southampton, at 

 Whittlebury Lodge, near Towcester, says, that Mr. 

 Paxton's method of preparing strawberry plants for 

 forcing is a good one w^here tmie and trouble are of 

 no consequence : but for the last fifteen years he has 

 adopted a plan which answers v/ell, and by which 

 good strong plants are procured in one month from 

 the present year's runners. 



'' The compost used in good strong loam, well mixed 

 with rotten dung from the hot-bed linings; twenty- 

 four-sized pots are the best for Keene's Seedlings, and 

 thirtj^-twos for Grrove End Scarlets. The latter variety 

 answers for early forcing better than any other sort, 

 when strawberries are w^anted by the end of March. 



" Having filled the pots wdth the compost, they are 

 removed at once to the strawberry quarters, and ar- 

 ranged on each side of the rows, among the runners. 

 The middle of July, when the plants are emitting 



