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On the Culture of Strawberries. 



of extremely rich quality had been chosen for the purpose, and 

 water holding manure in solution, was rather abundantly given 

 to the pots ; the plants I by these means obtained, apparently 

 owing to their possessing a more copious reservoir of sap 

 beneath the soil, afforded me a more abundant crop of fruit, 

 and of superior quality, to that which I believe I could have 

 obtained from younger plants. A single plant of this kind 

 will be found sufficient for a pot, the size of which must be 

 regulated by the habits of the variety of Strawberry. 



Summer planting is, I think, always in some degree objec- 

 tionable ; because the plants can never have time enough to 

 extend their roots to a sufficient depth beneath the soil, to 

 save themselves from being injured by drought in the follow- 

 ing spring. But as the whole extent of the soil, which is 

 allotted to produce Strawberries, becomes, under this mode of 

 management, every year productive of fruit, it may in some 

 situations be the most eligible. Whenever this mode of 

 culture is adopted, I would recommend the kind of plants 

 above-mentioned to be selected, and to be treated in every 

 respect, as if they were to be placed in pots for forcing ; 

 except that their roots should be made to extend as deeply 

 as practicable into the soil in which they are planted. In 

 summer planting I have also found great advantage in using 

 the runners of the preceding year ; these had been planted 

 with a dibble within three inches of each other, in rows, and 

 with intervals of only six inches between the rows, till the 

 ground in summer was ready to receive them : a very small 

 space was thus found to afford plants enough for a large 

 plantation ; and these having acquired greater strength, with 

 more strong and more numerous roots, afforded a much more 



