158 GARDEKIKG FOE PLEASURE. 



forcing is the one we recommend for nearly all plants ; 

 three parts rotted sods, and one part rotted manure. 

 The potted strawberries should be placed on boards, 

 flagging, or a layer of coal ashes, to prevent the earth- 

 worms from getting in at the bottom of the pots. At 

 first, after being shifted, they should be set closely to- 

 gether, but as they grow they must be spread apart, as it 

 is necessary that the air pass around the pots to ripen the 

 roots. Of course the necessary attention to water is as 

 important with these as with other plants in pots. They 

 may thus stand in the open air until November, when 

 the pots may be plunged in dry leaves to prevent their be- 

 ing broken by frost ; and the tops also covered an inch or 

 two with -fche same material ; as cold weather advances, 

 they may be taken in at intervals of two weeks or so and 

 placed on the shelves of a greenhouse, near the glass, 

 where the temperature will average at night 50 degrees, 

 and if due attention to watering has been given, a crop 

 will be the result, such as will well repay the labor, 

 not only as fruit, but the plants so loaded will them- 

 selves be beautiful greenhouse ornaments. Good vari- 

 eties for forcing are Triomphe de Gand and Champion. 



RASPBERRY. 



To have the Easpberry in perfection, the same prepara- 

 tion of soil is necessary as for the Strawberry. The canes 

 or shoots of the Easpberry are biennial ; that is, the cane 

 or shoot that is formed one season, bears fruit the next 

 season, and dies off after fruiting, giving place to the 

 young cane that is to fruit the following season, and 

 so on. The distances apart to plant the Easpberry for 

 garden culture, may be, if in rows, five feet apart, with 

 the plants two feet apart in the row, or if in separate 

 stools or hills, they may be set four feet each way. If 

 planted at distances of four feet apart, three plants may 

 be put in each " hill," which will quicker secure a crop. 



