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sifted mould, and scarcely covered ; have a thin layer of moss 

 strewed over them, and they should be frequently moistened. 

 Fresh seed grows up in eighteen days : old seed is much slower. 

 The runners must be carefully removed. 



The market gardeners near Paris sow theirs twice a year, in 

 March, and towards the end of August ; in six weeks they are 

 large enough to be transplanted, which is done at eight inches 

 apart. Those sown in March fruit in May and June; those sown 

 in August, the Spring following. I rather suppose that the 

 plants sown in March give their fruit in Autumn. 



It is good to sow Strawberries within the distance of five or six 

 feet from a north or a west wall ; in the latter case, the moss is 

 absolutely necessary. The plants grown from the March sown 

 seed must be well watered through the Summer ; in hot weather 

 twice a day, if they are expected to bear in the Autumn. The 

 French seem to find the August sowing most productive. Even in 

 the Autumn, in the Almanac called Le Bon Jardinier, the author 

 tells us to sow the seeds of Strawberries in February, if we have 

 not done it in the preceding August. 



The Hautbois is called in French, Caperonier ; it is lately only 

 that we have observed a hermaphrodite variety, which bears 

 abundantly ; in fact, the plant is polygamous : this the French 

 have long known, and they say that the Chili Strawberry is also 

 polygamous, and that the females may be made fertile by the 

 impregnation of the male flowers of the Hautbois. 



