400 On the Double-bearing Hautbois Strawberry. 



the plants have been wholly put into the open ground. I have, of 

 course, not seen the result : but I do not entertain any doubt of its 

 being successful, though the climate in which the experiment is made 

 is not favourable. 



By raising many seedling plants from the Double-bearing Haut- 

 bois Strawberries, I entertain very little doubt but that varieties 

 might be obtained which would possess habits more resembling 

 those of the Alpine Strawberries ; and I think it not improbable 

 that similar habits might be given to other species of Strawberries, 

 for the Roseberry Strawberry not very unfrequently affords an 

 autumnal crop. 



The early runners of Keen's seedling Strawberry have not, in 

 my hands, afforded blossoms in the season ; but if the old plants, 

 which have borne an early crop in the forcing-house, be taken out 

 of their pots with all the mould and roots adhering to them, and 

 planted in rich soil, and profusely supplied with water, an abundant 

 crop will be obtained in Autumn. I have succeeded in making this 

 experiment with the Old Scarlet Strawberry ; but Keen's seed- 

 ling is greatly preferable. 



Plants of the Double-bearing Hautbois Strawberry appeared in 

 the experiments above-mentioned to be more subject to attacks 

 from the red spider and aphis, than those of other species of Straw- 

 berry ; but I am prepared to speak only upon the evidence of a 

 single season. 



