STRAWBERRIES 



Strawberries are of easy culture, and succeed with 

 reasonable care on almost all kinds of soil. The land 

 should be well and deeply dug, and heavily manured 

 previous to planting. Heavy dressings of farmyard 

 manure are especially important in the case of light 

 soils. On light soils a dressing of marl is also of 

 great value. The crop should not remain on the 

 ground for more than three years, and of these, the 

 first is practically unproductive. The runners or young 

 plants should be purchased in August and planted ten 

 inches apart. At the end of the first year, every other 

 plant should be removed, and may be planted elsewhere. 

 The ground should be kept well hoed on the surface 

 and free from weeds. As soon as the flowers are 

 developed, a mulching of strawy manure or plain straw 

 should be placed between the rows or round the roots 

 to preserve the fruit from dirt. After the fruit is 

 gathered, the straw may be removed and the new 

 runners should be cut off. If it is intended to raise 

 new plants, get a number of small pots, fill them to 

 the top with good loamy soil, and place these pots 

 round the plants from which the runners are intended 

 to be obtained. About the end of June the plantlets 

 should be directed into the pots and pegged down with 

 wooden pegs. They will soon take root, and may then 

 be separated from the parent plant. Good varieties of 

 strawberries are Black Prince, which is early ; British 

 Queen, Doctor Hogg, and Latest of All, which are 

 three kinds of excellent flavour; Royal Sovereign, 

 which is a good cropper ; and Gunnersbury Alpine and 

 St Joseph, which are perpetual varieties. 

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