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REMARKS ON THE STRAWBERRY. 
air and keep a high moist heat, so' that all the berries may set at one 
time. For when the house is cool, the shoulders of the bunches, 
being nearer the glass, frequently set before the lower part of the 
bunch, which generally shrivel, when swelling off, and greatly disfi¬ 
gure the crop. By the time the berries are set, the vines have made 
what length of wood I want for the ensuing year. I then stop all the 
shoots, three or four eyes above where I intend to cut, leaving the 
laterals at every eye, stopping them as they advance. The shoots 
whereon is the fruit, if not wanted for wood, I immediately stop 
two eyes above the hunch, and leave but one bunch on every 
shoot. By thus stopping, and by pinching off the end, the sap 
flows to the berries and swells them to a great size, before they 
stand to form the seed or stone. I thin them as soon as they are 
the size of nmstard-seed, and keep pinching off the shoots an eye 
above the former stopping, as they push forth. I am always grati¬ 
fied with from twenty to thirty good bunches on a vine, having well 
swelled large berries, and I seldom or never have a shrivelled berry 
in any of my crops. Should any of your readers wish, I will with 
pleasure give a further detail. William Grey. 
ARTICLE VII.—ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE STRAWBERRY, 
BY H. BROOKE, ESQ. 
The runners should be planted in a moderately stiff soil, in August, 
during showery weather, in moist and open situations, and as near to 
water as may be convenient, either in beds of three rows, &c. &c. as 
recommended p. 250. If the soil fce sandy or gravelly, a soft loamy 
earth ought to be added, to make it more retentive of moisture, and 
to prevent the scorching of the blossoms and fruit in very hot and dry 
seasons. From March to the end of fruiting time, the beds and rows 
should have an embankment of earth at their sides and ends, three 
inches high, taken from the alleys, to retain copious waterings and 
heavy rains. Plenty of water in the absence of rain, ought to be 
sprinkled every other day over the plants from a garden-engine, or 
syringe, or through the rose of a large watering-pot, from the first of 
May to the end of fruiting time, to set the blossoms, and to swell 
the fruit. A row of Jerusalem Artichokes may be planted in Octo¬ 
ber, in light and rich ground, three feet from, and on the south side 
of, a plantation of such strawberries as require shade from a scorch¬ 
ing sun ; namely, Bartlett’s Nonsuch. A screen of this sort would be 
of use, in hot and dry seasons, to all other strawberries, and particu¬ 
larly to those growing where the "soil is sandy or gravelly, as well as 
to all seed and nursery beds. The artichokes should be earthed up 
like the potatoe, when they are a foot high. 
