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established, a breadth of old plants should be destroyed. It 
will happen however on strong lands that the plants will pay 
to keep to the fifth year, and although the fruit may be 
small, it will be useful for preserving and for other purposes 
that need not be specified. 
A selection oe Strawberries should include in the first 
instance those varieties that have proved to be suitable to the 
locality ; but having secured two or three sorts on which you 
can rely, it is advisable to make a small collection for com- 
parison of their respective merits, that the most useful of 
them may be taken into the routine cropping and the least 
desirable destroyed. The cost for so doing is next to 
nothing, the amusement of strawberry tasting is proper to the 
round of garden pleasures, and the discovery of a good sort 
that suits the soil and climate, is a great gain, and one to be 
ensured only by an experimentum crucis. The following, for a 
strawberry soil, constitute a fine collection, the most desirable 
being starred to distinguish them : — Aromatic, Dr. Hogg' 1 ', 
Elton Pine, Filbert Pine , Frogmore Late Pine*, James 
Veitch, La Grosse Sucree*, President * , Sir Charles Napier , 
Sir Joseph Paxton*, The Amateur, Vicomtesse Hericart de 
Thury *\ 
