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to grow very luxuriantly, and to produce abundance of fine 

 fruit at the end of July ; they were kept in this thriving and 

 bearing state through the summer and autumn, and conti- 

 nued to produce fruit until the frost put an end to their 

 bearing. 



The Roseberry Strawberry, in general, makes its flower 

 sterns very short, and produces its fruit near to the ground, 

 consequently in wet weather, as well as from frequent wa- 

 terings, the fruit becomes dirty, and unfit for the table. By 

 planting in an highly manured soil, and by abundant sup- 

 plies of water, I caused their flower stems to grow so vigo- 

 rously as to elevate themselves above the leaves, which gave 

 me an opportunity of tying them to sticks, and thus kept 

 the fruit perfectly clean under all circumstances. 



In the middle of October I selected three hundred plants 

 that were in the best state for producing fruit, and took them 

 up with care, so as to keep the earth to their roots as com- 

 pletely as possible ; I planted them in pots of a size larger 

 than those out of which they had been turned, in the begin- 

 ning of the summer, and tied up the flower stems of each 

 plant to a stick, to prevent the fruit from rotting by water- 

 ings or the damps arising from the soil: I then gave to each 

 pot a good supply of water, to render the earth solid round 

 the roots, and set them on shelves, in a hot-house, near to 

 the glass, giving them a free supply of air in the day time, 

 and shutting them up close on cold nights; and when shut 

 up, I kept the heat of the house as near as I possibly could 

 to 55 degrees of Fahrenheit s thermometer. I gave them 

 water only when they were dry; and when any leaves or 

 flowers decayed, I cleaned them away, to prevent the fruit 



