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Frogmore Pine, I should think Elton Pine to be a good sort for market 
gardeners. 
It is plainly of no use for market gardeners to keep sorts that will not defy 
black frosts, and that have not a sufficient quantity of foliage to cover their 
blooms mainly from the destructive spring hoar frosts. Taking everything into 
consideration, the Royal Hautbois, Rivers’s Eliza, Wonderful, Eugenie, and 
Frogmore Late Pines are the five best that I have ever had. If to these five 
you add Sir J. Paxton, Eclipse, Bicton White Pine, the Scarlet Pine, John 
Powell, and the old Red and White Alpines, you will have a very good lot of 
Strawberries, and all kinds of flavour. 
Eliza, Wonderful, and Frogmore Pines are gaining ground in this country, 
even with the Queen-growers, who have signally failed these last two seasons. 
To return to watering. It is of no use watering plants unless you give 
sufficient to touch all the points of the roots; nor should water be confined to 
the plants, it should be poured as freely over the space between them. 
After every picking I water the rows picked. This enables the plants to 
complete their several averages. In hot dripping summers, so much watering 
is not needed. Clay lands, in which for a while the plants are watered by 
capillary attraction, do not at first need so much water as our chalky and sandy 
lands, but when they are once dry no amount of water that we can give will be 
of any avail. You must never allow the soil in the fruiting season to become 
dry. You must establish plenty of pumps, and give the men extra pay and some 
beer, and then you will have good crops of Strawberries, Peaches, Roses, and 
other things. Beer and extra pay will drive the men ; and “ aqua pumpaginis ” 
will, with a West Indian sun, drive the fruits and flowers in well-prepared 
lands. 
I have here on trial, Dr. Hogg, a fine healthy plant; Cockscomb, ditto; 
and Glory of Westerham. These have been partially tried under unfavourable 
circumstances, and they are both good—viz., Mr. Ingram’s Fairy Queen and 
No. 10. The latter I think will prove a fine late variety. 
Among the rejected Strawberries that I have had in my hands are the 
following :— 
1. First-rate sorts, but not suitable to my soil and situation. 
—British Queen, Carolina Superba, La Constante, Filbert Pine, Myatt’s Pine 
Apple, Hendries’ Seedling, Rifleman (Ingram’s), La Chalonnaise, Crimson 
Queen, Magnum Bonum, and Lucas. Leaving out La Constante and Filbert 
Pine, all the others are of the Queen line. 1, 7, 8, and 10 especially dislike 
chalk, and the severe valley hoar frosts in the spring. 2, 9, and 11 did the best, 
and are more suitable for general lands. 1 and 3 succeed best in clay, or deep 
rich loams. In such lands they do not mind severe cold. A northern aspect 
is better for them than a southern. If plants can be got in early, they do best 
as annual plantations. In some lands they will crop well for two or three 
years. 
2. Good Strawberries rejected because they' are not so good 
as Rivers’s Eliza, Wonderul, and Frogmore Late Pine. —Alice Maude, 
President, Trollope’s Victoria, Adair, Prince of Wales (Ingram’s), Marguerite, 
Sanspareil, Eleanor, Elton Pine, Sir C. Napier (the last three are, in wet 
seasons, the superacetate of potash, and are superseded in all respects by the 
Frogmore Pine), Sir Harry (two sorts'), Ne Plus Ultra, Patrick’s Seedling, 
Le Baron, Triumph, Marquise de La Tour Maubourg, Bonte de St. Julien, La 
Vineuse de Nantes,—late, hardy, good cropper, level berry ; and only rejected 
because it exposes its beautiful snow-flake trusses above its stalwart dense 
green foliage, and liable in valleys to be cut up by the spring hoar frosts. The 
above are honest sorts that have much good about them. 
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