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Such as the British Queen, the Old Pine, and the Kean’s 
Seedling, should be in rows, three feet apart. These, if planted 
as here recommended, may be placed, at the planting time, only 
nine inches apart, in the row; they will do thus for the first 
season, or in fact until the fruit is gathered, when every alter- 
nate plant must be destroyed, which will leave them, in the 
second year, eighteen inches apart in the row. 
Some of the smaller sorts are better, or at least quite as well, 
cultivated in beds. Such as the Alpines for autumn use, the 
Old Scarlet, the Grove-end Scarlet, the prolific Hautbois, &c. 
The Elton is a valuable Strawberry for late purposes. Straw- 
berry walls have been much in request, and most deservedly 
so; but the difficulty of renewing the plants in this position 
has been, in part, a hindrance to their more general adoption. 
I hope to be able to show, however, in some future paper, how 
this difficulty may be overcome. This, with other practical 
remarks, relating to Strawberries, must be reserved for a future 
communication. 
263 Window Flower Culture. ( By R. Errington.) Soils, 
Composts, &c. Having completed the first division of the Fruit 
Tree culture, the top management, training, &c., of which will 
shortly be resumed, I now offer a few practical remarks on the 
culture of |)ot plants in windows, frames, &c. A good sys- 
tem, even of window culture, cannot be pursued without atten- 
tion, in the first place, to soils and composts. Time was, when 
some twenty or thirty articles were amalgamated as necessaries 
for one compost, by those whose interests or ignorance kept 
the matter veiled in universal mystery. The progress of science 
however, has now somewhat dissipated those mystic notions; 
and people have at last began to discover that it is not the 
number of articles in a compost that constitute its efficiency, 
but a judicious mixture of simple soils, which are within the 
reach of every cultivator ; such as may sustain a steady and 
uniform transmission of moisture, and contain a due amount of 
the necessary pabulum to feed the extending fibres. 
A large assortment of soils are unnecessary; four things, 
however, are indispensable, to furnish compost sufficient to 
guarantee the good cultivation of window (lowers ; viz., turfy 
loam, heath soil, charcoal, and sharp sand. I need hardly in- 
clude rotten manure, as it is to be presumed that this is always 
