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XXXI. Further Particulars of the Downton Strawberry. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. President. 



Read, September 5th, 1820. 



My dear Sir, 

 I have addressed to you, some runners of the Strawberry, 

 to which the Horticultural Society, in their Transactions * 

 have done me the honour to attach the name of my resi- 

 dence ; and as different varieties of Strawberry succeed 

 best under different modes of culture, I think a few observa- 

 tions upon the habits of the Downton Strawberry may not be 

 useless. The plants of this variety grow with very great lux- 

 uriance, afford a profusion of runners, and more abundant 

 branches upon the parent roots, than any other Strawberry 

 with which 1 am acquainted. I have sent a plant, which 

 was a runner just two years ago, and which produced the 

 fruit you lately received from me ; and that will point out 

 its habits in these respects, better than any words I can 

 supply, and also the position of its strong erect fruit-stalks. 

 I scarcely need add, that the plants ought to be placed 

 at consider able distances from each other. I have planted 

 them in rows two feet wide, and the plants at nine inches 

 from each other in the rows; in this way they have borne 

 most profusely ; but they have also borne very abundantly 

 where they have been much crowded, owing to the advan- 



* S«e volume iil p. 396. 



