174 
THE FLOEIST AND POMOLODIST. 
[ August^ 
t 
take up these plants carefully, preserving the roots to the utmost, and replant them. 
I did this mainly on my faith of the great capacity for endurance of which the 
strawberry is possessed, knowing full well all the while how ridiculous such an 
attempt would be regarded by old hands, for who would think of transplanting 
old strawberry stools—though it may not be half so cruel a practice as turning 
out plants which have been forced, manure-watered, and taxed to the utmost in 
the houses, and expecting them to recover and to afford a supply for a few 
seasons out-doors ? However, the plants succeeded, and took fresh hold of the 
new soil in the old border, increased in size annually until plant met plant, and 
now such a row of crowns exist as is seldom to be seen. Whilst I write, in the 
thirteenth year of their existence, these plants have a very heavy crop upon 
them, and a question lately arose with my employers and their friends whether 
the ‘‘first ” fruits could be the Keens’ Seedling, so large were they. 
I take a further lesson herefrom. Not only is a deep soil, a maiden soil, 
rather over than under a moderate richness, essential to their successful culture,, 
but little if any digging or forking should be permitted amongst them. Again, 
a soil which is cool—cool in its nature and all its properties—even whilst the 
hottest sun of summer or early autumn is parching the surface, amid a rainless 
season, is also of the utmost, of the first importance.— William Earley, DigswelL 
TRUE LOVERS^ KNOTS: 
Forget-Me-Nots all the Year Bound. 
^i^^OOD news this for your young readers, while there wdll be none too old 
Milf to hear of it unmoved. Who does not remember some bit of Forget-Me- 
Not given or received, perhaps long, long ago, though it seems but yester¬ 
day as we recall it, and the heart beats quicker even now, as we write or 
read about ik Sweetest emblem of affection ! Universal preacher of love and 
devotion ! But the Forget-Me-Not of our youth was born of the rill or river. 
The lover was drowned in fishing it out for his mistress. It was scarce in many 
localities, and more or less inaccessible in all, while its beauty was at the best 
comparatively short-lived. 
It was a great improvement -when the Myosotis sylvatica came to the aid 
of the old Myosotis palustris. This was easily cultivated on any good soil, and 
continued to flower much longer in succession. With liberal treatment and a 
skilful choice of situation and times of sowing and propagation, three or four 
months of blooming season could be got out of it. In all good qualities, how¬ 
ever, it is again superseded by Myosotis dissitiJlo7‘a. With this alone I have 
girdled the year round with an unbroken string of True Lovers’ Knots, a con¬ 
tinuous blue band of Forget-Me-Nots. In favourable seasons this latter plant 
will begin to flower in the open air in January or February. On rich soil, with 
plenty of water, the same plants will continue flowering until November. But 
such flowers will become weak and puny. The best mode of insuring continuous 
