236 On the Management of the Roseberry Strawberry. 



rotting, which it frequently does at that late season of the 

 year, unless especial care is taken to keep the plants free 

 from decaying substances ; these plants bore fruit freely 

 till Christmas, and I gathered the last plate of Strawberries 

 from them on new year's day. 



When the Strawberry plants had done bearing, I left them 

 in the house, by way of experiment, to ascertain if they 

 would produce fruit through the winter; they blossomed 

 freely, but they did not set their fruit so well as they blos- 

 somed ; neither did they bear so well in the spring as those 

 planted from runners in the previous summer and autumn. 



The plants which I put out last May are at this time (the 

 end of July) producing fine fruit, just the same as last year, 

 and I am satisfied that if the Roseberry Strawberry is treated 

 as above described, it will bear fruit as freely through the latter 

 months of the summer and all the autumn, as in May and 

 June. 



