By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 105 



between the plants ; and I think I have obtained more than 

 twice the amount of produce from the same extent of ground, 

 which I should have obtained, if my plants had been placed 

 at the distances recommended by Mr. Keens, My beds 

 are, however, totally expended at the end of sixteen or seven- 

 teen months, from the time of their being formed, and the 

 ground is then applied to other purposes. I have conse- 

 quently the trouble annually of planting ; but I find this 

 trouble much less than that of properly managing old beds ; 

 and I am quite certain that I obtain a much larger quantity 

 of fruit, and of very superior quality than I ever did obtain, 

 by retaining the same beds in bearing during three successive 

 years, from the same extent of ground. 



There is a very large Strawberry of most luxuriant growth 

 raised from seed by Mr. Williams of Pitmaston, called the 

 Yellow Chili, which will alone, of those varieties which I 

 have cultivated, require, in my opinion, wider intervals than 

 those I have mentioned ; and the distances recommended by 

 Mr. Keens will, I think, be found expedient, where that 

 variety is cultivated. It is a variety of much merit, and of 

 most extraordinary size, a single fruit, raised in my garden, in 

 the last season, having weighed 558 grains. Some plants of it 

 were sent by Mr. Williams to the Society's garden in the 

 last spring, 



I perfectly approve of, and have long practised, the mode 

 of management recommended by Mr. Keens, of placing some 

 long dung between the rows, where it has all the good effects 

 which he ascribes to it ; but to his practice of digging between 

 the rows I object most strongly ; for by shortening the lateral 

 roots in autumn, the plants not only lose the true sap, which 



