484 [Sept. 
THE FRUIT-GARDEN. 
Fruit Trees. 
Examine your wall and espalier trees, and where you find 
any long loose brunches, train them in and make them firm in their 
proper places. 
The early kinds of fruit trees against the walls of your forcing- 
houses should, towards the end of this month, be pruned and trained 
close to the wall or trellis, that their buds may be preparing be- 
fore the season for applying artificial heat. 
Gathering ripe Fruit. 
Gather apples and pears as they ripen, and treat them as directed 
under the head Orchard, for next month. 
Prepare for Planting. 
Begin towards the end of this month to prepare the borders, &c. 
in which you intend to plant fruit trees, in October or November; 
it is of consecp.ience to add a good supply of thoroughly rotted dung, 
and to trench the ground to the depth of eighteen inches or two feet, 
provided that the natural good soil admits thereof. 
Strawberries. 
Of the Fragaria vesca, or Esculent Strawberry, there are five 
princifial varieties cultivated in gardens for their very delicious 
fruit. 1. F. virginiana, or scarlet strawberry. 2. F. vesca firaten- 
sis, of rfiton, or hautboy strawberry. 3. F. C/iiloeizsis, or Chili 
strawberry. 4. F. ALfiina, Alpine or monthly strawberry, and, 
5. F. Ananas, or pine-apple strawberry. There are besides these, 
the varieties sylvestris, or common wood strawberry, and caro- 
liniana, or Carolina strawberry, with many others, arising from 
these, differing principally in the colour of their fruit. 
The first, or Scarlet Strawberry, has dark green leaves and of a 
more even surface than the others; the flowering stems are shorter, 
and the fruit is frequently concealed among the leaves. It is the 
earliest in ripening its fruit, for which reason it merits esteem, had 
it nothing else to recommend it; but the fruit is so good as to be 
generally preferred to most others. 
The second, or hautboy strawberry, has larger and thicker leaves 
than the scarlet, oval-lanceoiate, and rough; the fruit is of a pale 
