S9& Mode o* Managing Strawberries . 
to be poured from a ladder out of u a watering pot over 
both trees and wall, beginning at the top of the wall, and 
bringing it on in courses from top to bottom page 161. 
Mr. Speechley is not the first person who has thought of 
this application of the mixture. It is a fact which has 
been long known and neglected. 
A considerable extent of wall may be washed by means 
of a common garden pump in a short time ; and this opera- 
tion should be repeated as often as a supply of the mix- 
ture can be procured ; or if the water of a washing cannot 
be had, a quantity of potash of commerce dissolved in 
water may be substituted.* The washing of the trees 
and wall twice a week for three or four weeks in the 
spring will be sufficient to secure them from the injuries 
of these insects. 
On the whole, then, this must be considered as a valu- 
able manure, as it can be obtained easily, at small ex- 
pense, and in large quantities ; and, when its nature is 
well understood, will probably be no less esteemed by 
the farmer than horse dung. To the gardener, as well 
as to the farmer, it is useful, mixed with mould, as a fer- 
tilizing compost; or, when fiuid may be applied to his 
fruit- walls, as a wash fatal to the noxious brood of pre- 
datory insects, 
Thomas Falconer. 
NO. 59. 
On the Revival of an Obsolete Mode of managing Straw- 
berries . By the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks, 
Bart E. B. P. R, S. $c. f 
THE custom of laying straw under strawberry plants, 
when their fruit begins to smell, is probably very old in 
* Mr. Speechley uses Iiis mixture warm* to soak the shreds, and wash the 
wall, more effectually. 
f Nicholson, vol. 19, p, 95. From the Transactions of the Horticultural Soci 
ty $ vol. 1, part i, p. 54. 
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