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LXX V. Observations on the Cultivation of Strawberries ; with 

 Remarks on the rapid Formation of their Blossoms and Fruit. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By the Reverend Thomas 

 Garnier, F.H. S. 



Read September 18th, 1821. 

 My Dear Sir, 



'Wh'e n I had the pleasure of seeing you here a few days 

 ago, you expressed a wish, that I would lay before the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, a detailed account of the method which I 

 have practised for some years of cultivating the different va- 

 rieties of the Strawberry. It affords me great satisfaction to 

 comply with your request, particularly as considerable quan- 

 tities of my Strawberries have been exhibited at various 

 Meetings of the Society, in the course of the two last sura- 

 mers s and which were generally allowed by the Members 

 present, to have attained no ordinary degree of excellence, 

 both in respect to size and quality. 



The observations I am about to submit to the considera- 

 tion of the Society, are the result of my own experience, and 

 may, perhaps, afford some useful hints to the cultivators of 

 this much esteemed fruit. 



The piece of ground I have appropriated for the produc- 

 tion of Strawberries, is well exposed to the sun and air ; 

 but at the same time is very much sheltered from the violence 



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