292 CULTURE OF STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



MANNER OF RAISING AND CULTURE OF STRAW- 

 BERRY PLANTS INTENDED FOR FORCING. 



Par. 62. — Strawberry plants for forcing should 

 for the most part be in pots, thirty-twos is the 

 size generally preferred for two years old plants ; 

 at this age they attain proper strength for forc- 

 ing; one year old runners are also sometimes 

 forced, which if not very strong, will succeed in 

 forty-eights; likewise three year old plants, 

 being the greatest age, they ought to be ad- 

 mitted into the forcing departments ; these ge- 

 nerally succeed best in twenty-fours. 



The runners, when taken from the mother- 

 plants in summer, may be immediately planted 

 in pots, to remain till they are proper for forc- 

 ing, or some of the late runners may be planted 

 out in beds to remain till the following spring, 

 or early in autumn, when they should be taken 

 up with balls and potted, to get established by 

 the ensuing forcing season ; or for hotbed forcing 

 some may remain to be removed with balls 

 direct from the nursery beds, and be planted in 

 the earth of the hotbed. 



