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a conftant Supply, you mould plant 

 a frelh Plat of Ground a Year before 

 you deftroy the o!d Bedb ; otherwife 

 (your young Plantation producing 

 few or no Fruit the firft Year) you 

 will be deiiitute a whole Seafon. 



The Wood- lira w berry is by many 

 People prefcrr'd for the Firmnefs of 

 its Fruit, and Delicacy of Flavour : 

 others greatly admire the fcarletSort 

 for its Goodnefs ; and the Hautboy 

 is efteemed for the Largenefs of its 

 Fruit : but the laft Sort is by far the 

 belt flavour'd or all the Kinds, tho' 

 it is a bad Bearer. 



The fcarlet Strawberry is a Na- 

 tive of America, and was firft brought 

 into England from Virginia ; but 

 this is now become fo common in 

 the Gardens, as to be thought by 

 many a Native of this Country. 

 This is the earlieft Sort, always com- 

 ing a Fortnight fooner than either 

 the Wood or Hautboy Strawberries ; 

 and is an excellent well flavour'd 

 Fruit j fo is generally efteemed. 



The Hautboy is alfo a firm well- 

 flavourd Fruit ; and the Globe- 

 hautboy, as it is generally called, is 

 a very good Bearer, and a large 

 Fruit. 



The Wood-ftrawberry, both the 

 red and white, will bear in greater 

 Plenty, when they are planted in a 

 ftrong moifl Soil, than when, they 

 are on a dry light Ground ; where, 

 if they are not well fupplied with 

 Water in dry Seafons, they will pro- 

 duce very little Fruit. 



The green Strawberry is the lateft 

 of all the Scuts ; this produces its 

 Fruit in large Bunches upon long 

 Footftalks; fo requires to have fonie 

 Support, efpecialiy in wet Seafons ; 

 otherwife the Fruit will lie upon the 

 Ground, and the Earth will be 

 warned over them ; cr if the Surface 

 of the Beds is covered with Mots, 

 k will be an excellent Method to 



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preferve the Fruit clean. This Sort 

 feldom produces much Fruit in 

 warm dry Land ; but upon ftrong 

 ftifr Ground bears plentifully, and is 

 the richeft Fruit of all the Kinds yet 

 known ; being very firm, and of a 

 remarkableQuicknefs in its Flavour. 

 This Sort is by fome Perfons ftiled 

 the Pine-apple Strawberry, from an 

 Affinity, as they fuppofe, between 

 the Flavour of this Fruit and that of 

 the Pine-apple ; and fome others 

 have given it the Name of Drayton 

 Strawberry, from its having been 

 much cultivated there. 



The Chili Strawberry was brought 

 firft into Europe by Monfieur Frezier, 

 Engineer to the late French King, 

 and given to Monfieur de Jujfieu. 

 ProfefTor of Botany to the Royal 

 Garden at Paris ; who hath fpread 

 it into divers Parts of Europe. This 

 Plant, Monfieur Frezier fays, is cul- 

 tivated in the Fields near Chili in 

 great Plenty ; and that it differs from 

 the European Kinds, in having larger, 

 thicker, and more hairy Leaves : the 

 Fruit is generally as large as a "Wal- 

 nut, and fometimes as big as an Hen- 

 egg, of a whitim - red Colour, and 

 fomewhat lefs delicious inTafte than 

 our Wood - ftrawberries. This has 

 produced Fruit feveral Years in the 

 Royal Garden at Paris, where Mon- 

 fieur Jujfieu afiured me it was com - 

 monly as large as a fmall Apple. I 

 brought fome of the Plants from 

 HolLind Anno 1727. which thrive and 

 increafe exceedingly , but thefe bear 

 very indifferently, efpecialiy in light 

 Ground ; therefore few Perfons care 

 to propagate this Sort in England. 

 Thefe Plants have been placed in the 

 Sun, and cultivated with Care ; but 

 have never fucceeded where they 

 have been thus .treated. I have ob- 

 ferved, that they have fucceeded beft 

 where they have grown under the 

 Shade of Trees, in a loamy Soil, and 



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