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XXVII. An improved Method of cultivating the Alpine 

 Strawberry. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 



f. n. s. §c. 



Read April 4, 1809. 



Th e Strawberry is a fruit which is agreeable to the palates 

 of so many persons, and which disagrees with the constitu- 

 tions of so few, that any means of improving the culture of 

 it, and of prolonging the season of its maturity and perfec- 

 tion, will probably be acceptable to the Horticultural So- 

 ciety : I am therefore induced to send an account of an im- 

 proved method of cultivating the Alpine Strawberry, that is 

 I believe, little, if at all known, and which I have practised 

 with the best possible success. 



Though the flavour of the Alpine Strawberries is generally 

 approved, they are not much thought of, whilst the larger 

 varieties continue in perfection, and are valued only as an 

 autumnal crop. I was therefore led to try several different 

 methods of culture, with a view to obtain plants that would 

 just begin to blossom at the period when the other varieties 

 cease ; conceiving that such plants, not having expended 

 either themselves or the virtue of the soil, in a previous crop 

 of fruit, would afford the best and most abundant autumnal 

 produce. Under this impression I sowed the seeds of the 

 best Alpine variety, that I had ever been able to obtain, in 

 pots of mould, in the beginning of August, the seeds of the 

 preceding year having been preserved to that period ; and 



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