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at preterit 'to be found in the gardens under the fpe- 
cies to which they naturally belong. 
The firft fort is the common Wood Strawberry, which 
grows naturally in the woods in many parts of Eng- 
land, and is fo well known as to need no defcription ; 
of this there are three varieties, i. The common fort 
with red fruit, a. The white Wood Strawberry,, which 
ripens a little later in the feafon, and is by many per- 
ions preferred to it for it's quick flavour, but as itfel- 
dom produces fo large crops of fruit as the red fort, 
it is not very generally cultivated. 3. The green 
Strawberry, by feme called the Pine Apple Straw- 
berry, from its rich flavour. The fruit of this is 
greenifti when ripe y it is very firm, and hath a very 
high flavour •, this is a late ripe fruit, but uniefs it is 
planted in a nioiit loamy foil, it is a very bad bearer •, 
but in Each land where it does fucceed, it merits cul- 
tivation as much as any of the forts. 
The Scarlet Strawberry is the fort which is firft ripe, 
for which reafon it merits efteem, had it nothing elfe 
to recommend it ; but the fruit is fo good, as by 
many perfons of good take to be preferred to moil 
other forts. This was brought from Virginia, -where 
it grows naturally in the woods, and is fo different 
from the Wood Strawberry in leaf, flower, and fruit, 
that Acre need be no doubt of their being diftinct 
fpecies. 
There is a variety of this which hath been of late 
years introduced from the northern parts of America, 
which has the appearance of a diftindt fpecies. The 
leaves or this are rounder, and not fo deeply veined ; 
the crenatures on their edges are broader and more 
obtufe. The leaves which compofe the empalement 
are much longer, and are hairy, and the fruit is 
larger ^ but as in other refpedbs it approaches near 
to the Scarlet Strawberry, I have chofen to join 
it to that, rather than make a diftindt fpecies of 
it-, this I have been informed grows naturally in 
Louifiana. 
There has alfo been another variety of this (if not 
a difeindt fpecies) lately introduced to our gardens, 
which is commonly known by the title of Alpine 
Strawberry the plants of this greatly referable thofe 
of the Scarlet Strawberry, but the fruit is more 
pointed it is a well flavoured fruit, and continues 
bearing from the common feafon of Strawberries, 
until the froft in autumn puts a flop to it, which 
renders the fort very valuable : I have frequently 
gathered the fruit in the beginning of November ; 
this has occafioned the Dutch gardeners titling it 
Everlafting Strawberry. 
The Hautboy Strawberry, which the French call Ca- 
pitons, came originally from America, but it has 
been long cultivated in the Englifh gardens, and is 
very different from the other forts in leaf, flower, 
and fruit, as that no one can doubt of their being 
different fpecies ; there is an improvement of this 
fort, which is commonly called the Globe Hautboy. 
The fruit of this is larger, and of a globular form, 
but this difference. has certainly arifen from culture j 
for -where thefe have been negledted a year or two, 
they have degenerated to the common Hautboy again ; 
where the ground is proper for this plant, and their 
culture is well managed, the plants will produce 
great plenty of fruit, which will be large, and well 
flavoured, and by feme perfons are preferred to all 
the other forts. 
The Chili Strawberry was brought to Europe by 
Morif. Frazier, an engineer, who was fent to Ame- 
rica by the late king of France, and was firft planted 
in the Royal Garden at Paris, from whence it was 
communicated to feveral curious perfons in Holland, 
and in the year 1727, I brought a parcel of the 
plants to England, which were communicated to me 
by Mr. George Clifford, of Amfterdam, who had 
large beds of this fort growing in his curious gardens 
at Hartec atrip. The leaves of this fort are hairy, oval, 
and of a much thicker fubftance than any fort yet 
known, and ftand upon 'very ftrong hairy foot-ftalks ; 
the runners from the plants are very large, hairy, and 
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extend to a great length, putting out plants at feveral 
diftances. The foot-ftalks which fuftain the flowers 
are very ftrong j the leaves of the empalement are 
long and hairy. The flowers are large, and are often, 
deformed and fo is the fruit, which is very large, 
and when cultivated in very ftrong land, the plants 
produce plenty of fruit, which is firm, and very well 
flavoured j but as it is a bad 'bearer in moft places 
where it has been cultivated, it has generally been 
neglected. 
The Strawberries in general love a gentle hazelly 
loam, in which they will thrive and bear greater 
plenty of fruit than in a light rich foil. The ground 
fhould alfo be moift, for if it is very dry, all the 
watering which is given to the plants in warm dry 
feafons, will not be fufficient to procure plenty of 
fruit ; nor fhould the ground be much dunged, for 
that will caufe the plants to run into fuckers, and 
grow luxuriant, and render them Ids fruitful. 
The belt time to remove thele plants is in October, 
that they may get new roots before the hard froft 
fets in, which loofens the ground ; fo that if the roots 
of the plants are not pretty well eftablilhed in the 
ground, the plants are frequently turned out of the 
ground by the firft thaw ; therefore the fooiier they 
are planted when the autumnal rains begin, the bet- 
ter will their roots be eftablifhed, fo there will be 
lefs danger of their mifearrying, and fometimes thofe 
which are well rooted, will produce a few fruit the 
firft year ; there are fome who tranfplant their plants 
in the fpring but where that is done, they muft be 
duly fupplied with water in the dry weather, other- 
wife they will not fucceed. 
The ground in which thefe are planted fhould be 
thoroughly cleaned from the roots of Couch, and all 
other bad weeds ; for as the Strawberry plants are to 
remain three years before they are taken up, fo if any 
of the roots of thofe bad weeds are left in the ground, 
they will have time to multiply fo greatly as to fill 
the ground, and overbear the Strawberry plants. The 
ground fhould alfo be well trenched and made level ; 
then the ufual method is to lay it out into beds of 
four feet broad, with paths two feet or two feet and 
a half broad between each ; thefe paths are neceffary 
for the convenience of gathering the fruit, and for 
weeding and dreffing of the beds, and alfo fox wa- 
tering the plants after the beds are marked out, 
there fhould be four lines drawn in each, at a foot 
diftance, which will leave fix inches fpace on each 
fide, between the outfide rows and the paths then 
the plants fhould be planted at about a foot diftance 
from each other in the rows, in a quincunx order, 
being careful to clofe the ground to the roots of the 
plants when they are planted ; and if there fhould not 
happen rain foon after, the plants fhould be well wa- 
tered to fettle the earth to their roots. 
The diftance here mentioned for the plants to be 
placed muft be underftood for the Wood Strawberries 
only, for as the other forts grow much larger, their 
diftances muft be proportioned to their feveral growths 3 
therefore the Scarlets and Hautboys fhould haye but 
three rows of plants in each bed, which fhould be at 
fifteen inches diftance, and the plants in the rows 
fhould be allowed the fame fpace from each other, 
and the Chili Strawberry muft have but two rows of 
plants in each bed, which fhould alfo be two feet 
apart in the rows ; for as thefe grow very ftrong, if 
they have not room to fpread, they will not be very 
fruitful. 
In chufing proper plants of any of the forts, 
depends the whole fuccefs for if they are promif- 
cuoufly taken from beds without care, great part of the 
plants will become barren y thefe are generally called 
blind, which is when there are plenty of flowers, but 
no fruit produced if thefe flowers are well examined, 
they will be found to want the female organs of ge- 
neration, moft of them abounding with {lamina, but 
there are few, if any ftyles fo that it frequently hap- 
pens among thefe barren plants, that fome of them 
will have a part of an imperfect fruit formed, which 
will 
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