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L. On the means of obtaining abundant Autumnal Crops of the 

 Double-bearing Hautbois Strawberry. By T. A. Knight, Esq. 

 F. R. S. President. 



Read May 21, 1833. 



Th e Hautbois Strawberry is rarely seen in forcing-bouses ; 

 probably because the presence of barren, as well as productive 

 plants, has generally been necessary ; and not improbably, in part, 

 because this species of fruit has not been thought capable of acquir- 

 ing any high degree of perfection in the forcing-house. The first 

 objection does not apply to the Double-bearing Hautbois, and the 

 second is without foundation. 



Early in the spring of 1832 I introduced a few plants of the 

 Double-bearing Hautbois Strawberry into a forcing-house, from 

 which I obtained some very fine and excellent fruit, and (what I 

 chiefly wanted to obtain) numerous very early runners. These were 

 detached from the old plants as soon as they had acquired sufficient 

 maturity ; and they were immediately planted in pots, which, dur- 

 ing a few days were kept in the forcing- house, with a view of causing 

 the plants to emit roots more freely. The pots were then, early in 

 May, removed into the open air, and the plants soon after blossomed 

 very profusely, and, in August, afforded much fruit of very large size, 

 and of very excellent quality ; and the fruit continued to ripen in 

 succession through the following months. I had retained all my 

 plants in pots with the intention of replacing them in the forcing- 

 house if the fruit did not ripen well in the open air ; but they were 

 not removed to the forcing-house, because the fruit ripened more 

 early, and more perfectly, than I had anticipated. 



In the present year the same experiment has been repeated, but 



