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copious produce in the following season than could possibly 

 have been obtained from younger plants. By placing the 

 plants ultimately near each other, those of the large varieties 

 within six inches of each other in the rows, and with intervals 

 of fourteen inches between the rows; and those of the smaller 

 varieties within four inches of each other in the rows, and 

 with intervals of a foot only between the rows, as large, or 

 nearly as large a weight of fruit may be obtained, I think, 

 from any given extent of ground, as by planting early in the 

 spring, provided water be supplied in the spring in sufficient 

 quantity : but the fruit will rarely rival that which will be 

 produced by plantations made early in the preceding spring, 

 either in quality or size ; it will nevertheless excel both in 

 quantity and quality the produce of the preceding year's 

 runners, either in the open air or forcing-house. 



Whenever Strawberry plants are wanted for very early 

 forcing, it is advantageous that their roots should have been 

 well established in their pots in the preceding autumn, and 

 well preserved through the winter; but for late forcing I have 

 obtained very good subjects by the following means. Plants 

 which had produced one crop of fruit were taken up, as soon 

 as all their fruit had acquired maturity, and were planted at 

 nine inches apart, in soil which had been manured superfi- 

 cially only, and their roots were spread horizontally near the 

 surface of the soil ; late in the autumn the roots were as 

 much detached from the soil as would have been requisite, 

 if they had then been to be planted in pots, but they were 

 replaced in the soil, till the end of February ; being at that 

 period placed in pots, they produced an abundant crop of 

 very fine fruit. I found, under this mode of management, 



