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XXII. On the Culture of Strawberries. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S. $c. President. 



Read May 17, 1825. 



At the period when, in the last year, I addressed to the 

 Horticultural Society some observations upon the culture of 

 different species and varieties of Strawberries * I had seen the 

 successful result of other experiments ; but as my experience 

 had then been chiefly confined to a single season, I thought 

 it better to wait for the further evidence which the present 

 spring has afforded me. 



It is, I believe, the general practice of Gardeners to select 

 the early runners of one season, to place in pots for forcing 

 in the following spring. Instead of these, I selected, as soon 

 as their fruit had been gathered, the roots, which in the mode 

 of culture recommended in my last communication * upon the 

 subject, had borne one crop of fruit; but which had been 

 planted too closely in their beds, to be retained there long 

 with advantage. The roots of these, to which a good deal 

 of mould remained attached, were retained as perfect as 

 was practicable ; but their branches, which in some varie- 

 ties were become very numerous, and which in all were too 

 abundant, were reduced to three at most in the large varie- 

 ties, and to four in the smaller ; and the plants were all placed 

 so deeply in the soil, after their old and decaying leaves had 

 been taken off, that their buds alone remained above it. Soil 



* Seepage 101. 



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