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AMERICAN KITCHEN GARDENER. 
works It was raised from seed by Mr. Knight, at Downton, the name of 
his estate, and is a very good bearer. 
The roseberry is, in point of flavor, surpassed by no cultivated strawberry 
I have seen. It resembles, in form and flavor, the Alpine, but is a better 
bearer. This last, 
The Alpine , is a monthly strawberry ; it continues in bearing from June 
until October in this climate—is like the wood-strawberry in form and flavor, 
but is a shy bearer. 
The scarlets are all large and fine fruit; the largest variety are fine flavored 
and very early. They are not very great bearers, but should be cultivated 
as valuable varieties, as well as for their beauty and excellent qualities. 
The haulbois is the favorite English strawberry. It is totally different 
from what is commonly called the hautbois in this country. The flat haut- 
bois grows generally on the top of the vines—is brown, and greenish white 
when ripe—fine flavored, pretty good bearer, but difficult to detach from its 
stalk. 
The round hautbois is of a dark purple when ripe—is somewhat in form 
like the common red strawberry, but larger; and the 
Musk hautbois is like the preceding—a shy bearer, but very delicious. 
The wood-strawberry is far before any other in point of flavor, and, if trans¬ 
planted into gardens, may for two or three years answer very well ; and it 
not too highly manured, preserve their flavor and increase their size. But 
new plants must be obtained, every two or three years, from the woods, to 
make new plantations, or they will degenerate. 
Soil and manure. —The soil proper for this last mentioned variety, as well 
as all others, is light, warm, and gravelly; and the manure to be applied 
should be exclusively vegetable, and not animal manure The usual practice 
is to manure the ground with rotten dung, with a view to increase the size 
and quantity of fruit; but, in doing this, the flavor of the fruit is destroyed 
in proportion to the richness of the soil. Besides, high manuring produces 
strong vines and little fruit. Rotten leaves, decayed wood, ashes, in small 
quantity, mixed with other vegetable substances in a compost heap, will 
make better manure for strawberries than any animal substance whatever. 
As the vines which bear this fruit require great moisture to bring the fruit 
to its proper size, the soil and situation in which they are placed must not be 
too dry. 
Propagation. —The usual time for transplanting strawberry-plants is Au¬ 
gust. That time is chosen because they have then done bearing, and have 
made offsets, if the season has been favorable, of strong plants, set from their 
runners. Plantations made at this season will bear some fruit the next sum¬ 
mer. But, if you can get good vigorous plants in May of the preceding sea¬ 
son, I prefer to plant then, as it saves a year, nearly, the plants being ready 
to bear abmdan .ly the next year. 
