ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE STRAWBERRY. 
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varieties: — select the finest fruit, and allow this to remain on 
the plant till it is dead ripe; then mash it, and carefully wash 
out the seed from amongst the pulp, rub it well apart, and 
spread it out, in any suitable place, to dry: when dry, it may be 
sown in pans or boxes, or in a frame, being covered with the 
glass; when the plants are up, they will require water occa¬ 
sionally, and must be kept free from weeds, until they are fit to 
plant into beds, at six inches distance in the rows, and a foot 
from row to row ; if every fourth row is missed it will serve as 
a path to get to water and weed them. If there is not time 
for them to get established before the winter, the planting will 
be better deferred till the following spring; when they produce 
fruit, it will readily be seen which are worth cultivating, and 
the remainder can be destroyed. 
I will now enumerate some of the principal varieties in 
cultivation: — 
Keen’s Seedling (syn. Keen's Black 
Pine). 
Old Scarlet (syn. Scarlet Virginia). 
Roseberry (syn. Scotch Scarlet , Aber¬ 
deen Seedling, prolific Pine). 
Black Roseberry. 
Black Pitmaston. 
Old Pine (syn. Carolina). 
Myatt’s British Queen. 
Myatt’s Pine. 
American Scarlet. 
Sweet Cone. 
Elton Pine (syn. Elton Seedling). 
Prolific Hautboy. 
Coul, late Scarlet. 
Garnstone, Scarlet. 
Swainstone Seedling. 
Grove End Scarlet. 
Downton (syn. Knight's Seedling). 
Black Hautbois. 
Green Pine (syn. Pine Apple, Green 
Alpine). 
Large Flat Hautboy. 
Wilmot’s Superb. 
Many of the above are of little worth, but the following are 
all worth growing: — Keen’s Seedling, Old Scarlet, Myatt’s 
British Queen, Myatt’s Pine, Elton Pine, and Swainstone Seed¬ 
ling. These I should choose for my own cultivation; if, however, 
I were pressed for space, so as to be able to grow only one or 
two sorts, I should give the preference to Keen’s Seedling, 
British Queen, and Old Scarlet; the others might be added to 
them, if space admitted, together with the Late Scarlet, Prolific 
Hautboy, and the Downton. I would just observe that many 
growers complain that they cannot fruit Myatt’s Pine well; but 
if they grow it in a fresh loamy soil, and renew the plants every 
two years, they will have no cause to complain, for it is in the 
age of the plants that the fault is to be found. I never found 
it to fruit well after the second season ; but by growing it in a 
loamy soil, and keeping the beds young, and watering the 
ground in dry weather, a good crop of fine and excellent fruit 
has always been the result. 
