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third, or, at the most, every fourth, year. It is impossible 
to cultivate the ground thoroughly between the plants, 
therefore both plants and fruit gradually deteriorate. 
Manure may be applied as a topdressing in early winter, 
and this may be pointed in during February. 
When a new plantation is to be made, the young 
plants should be carefully looked after. This is best 
done by filling sufficient small pots with loamy soil, and 
wherever a nice runner is found the bud at its apex 
should be pegged down into the pot, when it will soon 
send out roots which will gradually fill the pot. By this 
time the plants will be of a fair size, and the runner may 
be cut close to the young plant and the latter removed 
from the ground. Care must of course be taken to keep 
the young plants watered during dry weather. If the soil 
is fairly good, the runners may be left to root themselves 
and the best plants lifted when ready for planting. 
Strawberries are also grown extensively under glass in 
early spring, and if this be done with only a little artificial 
heat they will be ready about a month before the outdoor 
crop. They must be rooted in small pots, as explained 
above, and as soon as well rooted they should be potted 
into 6-in. pots, thus allowing room for strong plants to be 
formed for fruiting the following spring. The soil for 
potting them should be made up of four parts chopped 
loam, one part leaf soil, and half part well-rotted horse 
manure, with enough sand to keep it open, and two 6-in. 
potfuls of wood ashes to a barrowload of the mixture. 
When potted, they should be placed in a cold frame, or 
where the heavy rains can be kept from them. In spring 
they may be taken under glass in batches as required, and 
