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On the Culture of Strawberries. 



pans without any apertures to permit the escape of the water 

 to be preferable to pots, apparently owing to the finely reduced 

 mould having more perfectly closed round the fibrous roots 

 in the form of mud, in the pans, than in pots of the ordinary 

 construction. In giving water to plants which grow in ves- 

 sels from which it cannot escape, the Gardener will avoid 

 supplying it in excess ; but Strawberry plants whilst growing 

 are not easily injured by any degree of moisture in the soil. 

 It is scarcely necessary to mention, that it will be advan- 

 tageous in the first, as well as in the second transplantation, 

 not to detach the roots more than necessary from the soil 

 in which they have grown. 



