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XXXVII. On the Management of the Roseberry Strawberry, 

 in order to make it produce Fruit through the late Summer , 

 Autumn, and Winter Months. By Mr. Isaac Oldaker, 

 jF. H. S. Gardener to His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, 



Read, August 1st, 1820. 



The Roseberry Strawberry is now so well known that any 

 further description of it is unnecessary. I shall therefore 

 confine myself to an account of my treatment of it, in order 

 to make it bear fruit from the end of July to the beginning 

 of January. This will be best done by a detail of its 

 management in the last year. 



In the spring, when the plants of the Roseberry Straw- 

 berry which I had forced in the hot-houses had ceased to 

 produce fruit, I set thern out of doors, in their pots, and 

 gave them a plentiful supply of water once a day in dry wea- 

 ther. In three weeks after being thus exposed, they began 

 to shew blossom, with a disposition to produce a promising 

 second crop ; I then planted them in the open borders, with 

 their balls entire, in rows two feet apart, and eighteen inches 

 between each plant in the rows, and gave to each plant a 

 good supply of water, to settle the earth to their roots. The 

 first planting of this description was in the end of May; I 

 made a second in June, and a third in the beginning of July, 

 watering them all freely once in every day, when the weather 

 was dry ; these waterings kept them moist, and caused them 



* See Horticultural Transactions, vol. ii. p. 380, Plate 27. 



