STRAWBERRY. 
liest day onward, they may be removed to a mild 
bottom heat of a fluid dung-pit, or old melon or 
cucumber bed, fresh lined,—the pots plunged,— 
the plants within a foot of the glass,—and a large 
portion of air admitted at all favourable oppor- 
tunities, the lights closed and covered with 
mats or straw shutters at night. They may re- 
main in this situation, in an atmospheric heat of 
from 50° to 60° Fahrenheit, till the fruit be set; 
and then they may be removed to the stove to 
ripen,—any number of pots at a time, according 
to circumstances; and in this way, by a proper 
succession of removals, they will afford a con- 
stant supply of fruit from the beginning of March 
till the beginning of June,—and will do so though 
they should all be plants of Keen’s seedling, or of 
any other one eminently good and suitable va-: 
riety. During ali the month of June, a supply 
may be obtained from Keen’s seedling, the 
Grove-End, the roseberry, and other scarlets, 
grown on a south border of the open ground or 
at the foot of a wall; during the latter half of 
June and the former half of July, from the seve- 
ral varieties of pine, hautboy, and other common 
kinds, grown in the open quarters of the garden; 
during the latter half of July and the former 
half of August, from Keen’s seedling, the Down- 
ton, and the pine, grown on a border facing 
the north, shaded by a wall; during the latter 
half of August and the whole of September, from 
Keen’s seedling, transplanted from pots imme- 
diately after forcing, and grown on a well man- 
ured south border; during all October and the 
former half of November, from red and white 
alpines, raised in the preceding January from 
seed, and grown on a well manured south border; 
and during the latter half of November and the 
whole of December, from red and white alpines, 
raised from seed in the preceding January, and 
grown and ripened in pots in a heat of from 60° 
to 70° Fahrenheit. The seed of the alpines, when 
thus used, must be sown in shallow pans or 
boxes, with light rich mould; the pans or boxes 
must be placed in a stove or hotbed till about 6 
or 7 weeks after sowing; the plantlets, at this 
period, must be pricked out, and set on a slight 
hotbed, about 3 inches apart, and protected with 
a frame and lights; and they must afterwards 
be weil supplied with air and water, and defended 
with sufficient covering to protect them from all 
frost and severe weather till May; and in this 
month, part may be planted out for fruiting in 
the open ground, and the rest potted, one plant 
in a pot, to be kept in a growing state through 
the summer, and shifted into larger pots in Au- 
gust, and forced into fruiting in the closing 
months of the year. A very few varieties and a 
somewhat limited range of contrivances are thus 
sufficient for obtaining a constant supply of fruit 
during ten months of the year; and if all the 
naturally successional varieties were brought 
into play, and all the arts of the gardener in the 
open ground and in the forcing structures made 
STRELITZIA. 
to tell upon them, the supply might be ample 
and diversified to satiety,—but, of course, would 
be aristocratically costly.—ogers’s Fruit Cultiva- 
tor—Philip’s Fruits—Haynes’s Treatise on the 
Strawberry, Raspberry, and Gooseberry.—Paxton’s 
Botanical Dictionary. — Loudon’s Works.— The 
Transactions of the Hortrculiural Society—The 
Gardener's Chronicle—The Gardener's Gazette— 
The Magazine of Domestic Economy. — Miller's 
Gardener’s Dictionary.— The Survey of Mid- 
Lothian. 
STRAWBERRY-BLITE. See Brite. 
STRAWBERRY-TREE. See Arsutus. 
STRAW-CUTTER. See Cuarr-Currer. 
STRAW-CUTTING. See Straw, FoppsEr, and 
Cuarr-Curter. 
STRAW-HOUSE. See Barn and Farm-Buitp- 
INGS. 
STRAW-RACK. See Sraste. 
STREET-MANURE. See Porrck Manure and 
SEWERAGE. 
STRELITZIA. A genus of ornamental, Cape- 
of-Good-Hope, evergreen, herbaceous plants, of 
the banana family. The queen’s species, S. re- 
gine, was the earliest known to botanists, and 
the earliest introduced to Britain; and is still 
the most generally known, and may serve as an 
excellent specimen of the whole genus. It was 
discovered by Sir Joseph Banks, when acting as 
naturalist to the first expedition under Captain 
Cook; and was named in honour of the queen of 
England, a princess of the house of Mecklenburg- 
Strelitz; and was sent to Britain in 1773. It has 
a habit somewhat similar to that of a Calla, and 
commonly attains a height of about 6 feet. A 
vigorous plant of it may have 16 or 18 thrifty 
leaves about 3 feet high, and three strong flower 
stems, with their crowned heads of flowers tow- 
ering above them. Each stem has three or four 
large flowers, which open successively from a 
curious spathe-like calyx, and stand up like a 
crest of gold; the petals have a rich orange yel- 
low colour, and surround three broad stamens of 
the deepest purple; and a drop of pure nectar 
distils from each flower, and stands on the exte- 
rior like a brilliant gem. The plant commonly 
blooms in March and April, but can be urged 
forward to bloom in January; and it continues 
in bloom upwards of a month. Most authorities 
recommend for it a light sandy loam; but some 
gardeners have found it to succeed best in a 
rather heavy, rich, black loam, kept pretty moist. 
Of seven other species which have been intro- 
duced to Britain, one, the august, is white-flow- 
ered, and all the others are yellow-flowered ; two, 
the august and the ovate-leaved, are respectively 
about 18 and 8 feet high, and all the others are 
about 5 or 6 feet high; three, the august, the 
ovate-leaved, and the mealy-stalked, bloom in 
February and March, and the others do not 
bloom till May; and two, the august and the 
ovate-leaved, as also the queen’s, are propagated 
from suckers, and all the others are propagated 
