374 STRAWBERRY. 



no rich dung, but only occasional top-dressings. 

 The stools should be frequently cleared of runners, 

 and none left on except they are wanted to form new 

 plantations, which, however, should be made every 

 other year. 



15. Hautbois S, — So called, as is supposed, from 

 being found wild in the high woods of Bohemia. 

 The fruit are about the middle size, round, and 

 somewhat depressed ; colour dark red when exposed 

 to the sun, otherwise dull white : pulp is substantial, 

 greenish, very sweet, with an agreeable musky fla- 

 vour. When quantity rather than quality is wanted, 

 letting the runners remain to cover the whole surface 

 of the ground, is not a bad plan ; as in this way 

 the plants renew themselves, and continue to yield 

 fair crops for years together without other assistance 

 than occasional top-dressings of old hot-bed dung. 

 This strawberry does not require so heavy land as 

 some of the others ; a light sandy soil, moderately 

 rich, and kept so by biennial applications of manure, 

 will suit the plants well. 



It has been lately supposed, that this variety of 

 strawberry is dicecious, that is, having distinct male 

 and female plants ; and that the latter are barren, if 

 there be none of the former planted among them. 

 This is a discovery which poor Linnseus never 

 dreamed of, when arranging his class Icosandria, 

 nor that Jussieu detected among his Rosacese. Such 

 a circumstance was never heard of or regarded in the 

 author's early days, neither was there then any com- 

 plaint of unfruitfulness. That some of the flowers on 



