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and  the  main  crop  lin  pecks  of  12  lb.  or  rim  pecks  of  28  lb. 
The  fruit  intended  for  jam-makers  is  often  forwarded  in  tubs 
of  56  lb. 
After  picking,  the  straw  is  removed,  the  runners  are  cut  oft^ 
and  the  plants  are  earthed  up  with  a mould-board  plough.  As 
the  existence  of  the  plant  is  so  short  it  is  only  usual  to  manure 
at  the  time  of  planting.  Some  growers,  however,  give  the 
plant  soot  or  guano  in  the  spring,  which  is  lightly  forked  in. 
Good  market  strawberries  are  Hoyal  Sovereign,  the  best 
early  strawberry.  Sir  Joseph  Paxton,  President,  and  Waterloo. 
Laxton  is  also  a very  good  strawberry.  The  great  point  is  to 
grow  a firm,  handsome  strawberry  which  will  travel  well. 
Cob-nuts  and  Filberts. — (lob-nuts  are  grown  for  market 
mostly  in  Kent  and  have  to  a great  extent  superseded  tlu* 
Filbert,  the  trees  being  heavier  croppers  and  producing  larger 
nuts.  Undoubtedly  they  might  be  grown  to  a profit  in  many 
other  localities,  as  they  are  not  in  reality  very  particular  as  to 
soil,  but  the  drawback  to  their  more  extensive  cultivation  is  the 
length  of  time  necessary  to  form  a tree  and  obtain  a return. 
Nuts  thrive  amazingly  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Maidstone 
where  the  geological  formation  is  mostly  loam  overlying 
ragstone.  The  detritus  of  the  stone  crops  up  and  blends  with 
the  loam  of  the  Lower  Greensand  or  the  Atherstone  (day. 
This  is  an  ideal  soil  for  nuts  known  locally  as  “ coomb.” 
There  are  no  doubt  soils  of  a somewhat  similar  character — 
“ stone-shattery  ” land — in  other  parts  of  England,  which 
would  also  grow  nuts  to  perfection.  Cob-nut  trees  are  raised 
from  suckers,  or  more  frequently  from  layers.  They  are 
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