90 Notices of Communications to the Horticultural Society, 



George Tollet, Esq., in a letter to the Secretary, from 

 Betley Hall, in Staffordshire, dated the 14th of February, de- 

 scribes the success of his gardener in preserving Apples, laid 

 in hods, in the manner of Potatoes. Some Apples, which 

 had been thus treated, were sent to the Society at this period 

 in as fresh a state as if newly gathered from the tree. This 

 plan of preserving Apples must be very useful to cottagers 

 and others who have not the advantage of a fruit-room for 

 the protection of the produce of their gardens and orchards 

 during winter. The Apples should be of hardy and keeping 

 sorts, and not more than four or five bushels should be put 

 into one hod. It is requisite to place straw at the bottom and 

 sides, and also to cover the top of the heap of Apples with 

 straw, so as entirely to separate them from the earth ; this is 

 not always done with Potatoes, 



A communication was read on the 6th of April from 

 Thomas Bond, Esq., of East Looe, in Cornwall, detailing his 

 mode of treating Strawberries in beds. The runners are not 

 cut off, but are confined to the bed, those which pass over the 

 sides being turned back on the beds. In the latter part of au- 

 tumn, before the frost sets in, the earth from the alleys between 

 the beds, or other earth from the garden, is thrown over the 

 beds to the depth of two or three inches, so as entirely to cover 

 the plants and the runners. In the spring, the whole shoot 

 through the covering with great vigour, producing very strong 

 foliage, and in due season, abundance of large and finely-fla- 

 voured fruit. Before this practice was adopted, very little fruit 

 was obtained. The soil is light, and the beds are occasionally 

 watered when the plants are in blossom. The leaves being 



