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October is an excellent time to accomplish this, ami a little 
top-(lressin«: may be added to induce them to make rapid 
progress. Each plant requires an area of about six feet 
diameter. Modes of pruning, &c., will be adverted to in due 
course. 
261 Red and White Currants. The Red is much hardier in 
constitution than the White; the latter requiring richer soil. 
A free loam, of a sandy character, suits them best, and it should 
be two spades in depth. Thorough drainage is, of course, the 
first step, if the soil is of too retentive a character. Young 
plants, three years from the cuttings, may be planted in Novem- 
ber, or from that period to the end of February. The Red will 
require an area of five feet diameter for each plant, whilst four 
will suffice for the White. 
262 Strawberry. This delicious fruit, which may be called 
Everybody’s Favourite, is cultivated under a greater variety of 
modes than any of the preceding fruits. Whatever mode be 
adopted a considerable depth of soil is requisite, in order to 
ensure permanent success. They delight in a sound and 
somewhat unctuous loam; and if the plot intended for them be 
of a sandy or gravelly character, it should be improved by 
such materials as the furrowings from wet soils, ditchings, pond 
mud, marl, &c., &c. In making a new plantation which is 
intended to endure for a few years, in order to save the trouble 
consequent on shifting the site, a good dressing of rather 
fresh manure should be trenched in; this will keep them in 
vigour for a considerable length of time, provided the top 
management be good. A new plantation may be formed any 
time in the course of the summer, whilst young runners can 
l)e obtained ; the eai lier, however, the better. The commercial 
gardeners, who plant great breadths, generally plant in July, 
and take a crop of some other kind off the interval between the 
rows the same autumn. I would recommend the amateur, 
possessing a moderate-sized garden, to transplant young runners 
into beds, about eight inches apart, as soon as they can be 
obtained, and to remove them to their final destination in the 
middle of October, or from that time to the middle of February. 
They should, by all means, be removed with large balls of soil, 
which is easily accomplished by the use of a large trowel. 
The larger sorts, if planted in rows, will require much room. 
2o9. AUCTARIDM. 
