THE STRAWBERRY. 
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lor the next season’s crop. The runners from the old strip will 
now speedily cover the new space allotted to them, and will 
perhaps require a partial thinning out to have them evenly dis- 
tributed. As soon as this is the case, say ab mt the middle of 
August, dig under the whole of the old plants with a light coat 
of manure. The surface may be then sown with turnips or 
spinage, which will come off before the next season of fruits. 
In this way the strips or beds, occupied by the plants, are re- 
versed every season, and the same plot of ground may thus be 
continued in a productive state for many years. 
Both of the above modes are so superior to the common one 
of growing them more closely in beds, that we shall not give 
any directions respecting the latter. 
It may be remarked that the Alpine and European Wood 
strawberries will do well, and bear longer in a rather shaded 
situation. The Bush-Alpine, an excellent sort, having no 
runners, makes one of the neatest borders for quarters or beds 
in the kitchen garden, and produces considerable fruit till the 
season of late frosts. If the May crop of blossoms is taken 
off, they will give an abundant crop in September, and they are, 
therefore, very desirable in all gardens. 
To accelerate the ripening of early kinds in the open garden 
it is only necessary to plant rows or beds on the south side of a 
wall or tight fence. A still simpler mode, by which their 
maturity will be hastened ten days, is that of throwing up 
a ridge of soil three feet high, running east and west, and 
planting it in rows on the south side. (The north side may 
also be planted with later sorts, which will be somewhat retarded 
in ripening.) The best early sorts for this purpose are Jenny 
Lind, and Large Early Scarlet. 
Staminate and Pistillate Plants . — A great number of expe- 
riments have been made, and a great deal has been written 
lately, in this country, regarding the most certain mode of pro- 
ducing large crops of this fruit. On one hand it is certain that, 
with the ordinary modes of cultivation, many fine kinds of 
strawberries have disappointed their cultivators by becoming 
barren ; on the other, it is equally certain, that, by the mode 
of cultivation practised at Cincinnati, large crops may be 
obtained every year. 
The Cincinnati cultivators divide all Strawberries into two 
classes, characterized by their blossoms. The first of these they 
call staminate (or male), from the stamens being chiefly de- 
veloped ; the second are called pistillate (or female), from the 
pistils being chiefly developed. 
The first class, to which belong various sorts, as Keen’s Seed- 
ling, British Queen, etc., usually in this climate bear uncertain 
crops, from the fact that only a part of the blossoms develop the 
pistils sufficiently to swell into perfect fruit. 
