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yf. ^anneH ¥ ^on4' Autumn '€ataiogue. 
STRA WBERRIES. 
THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS A FIFTY ACRE FIELD AT SWANLEY. 
>Fe respectfully solicit your orders for the' finest plants from the most complete and 
best kept collection in England. Swanley is the largest and best Strawberry- 
growing district in the world. 
Many Acres grown entirely for the Runner Plants all In separate beds, at a distance of 3 feet 
from plant to plant on purpose so that every kind must be true to name. 
WiWHE strawberry is one of our most important fruits, and should be better understood and grown ; if 
so, a full crop would be almost a certainty every year. The first and chief aim should be to have 
3 or 4 inches of good manure evenly spread on the soil, then well trenched or deeply dug, and 
turned over the second or even third time, well mixing the manure with the soil ; this should be 
done not later than July. Then have fine young green plants from us, trim off all the leaves except 
one or two, place the roots as in Fig. 4, with the crown well above the soil, which tread firmly ; this 
done, well water them, should the soil or weather be dry, until they get well into growth. Beyond 
this little else is needed but hoeing until just before the fruit shows colour the following year, when 
the ground should be carefully covered with clean straw ; be careful to place it close up and round 
the plants ; at all times cut away the runners and the crop will be large. If fine exhibition fruit is 
required, and the weather is dry, make four or six holes with a crowbar round the plants, and fill up 
with liquid manure three or four times a week, and the fruit will be much increased in size. The 
berries must be thinned and none left to come but what are wanted for exhibition. Always keep 
them free from weeds. 
