. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. CULTURE. 447 frame, they should have tan-bark or decayed leaves strewed among them to the depth of two inches. Early in April following, trans- plant into deeply trenched ground, well manured with vegetable compost. Propagation from Runners and Divisions.—All varieties of the strawberry, except the Wood and Alpine, propagate rapidly by" means of runners. These, when a new variety is procured, should be carefully watched, and as fast as they make joints, should be pegged down, and have fine soil or sharp sand scattered over
. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. CULTURE. 447 frame, they should have tan-bark or decayed leaves strewed among them to the depth of two inches. Early in April following, trans- plant into deeply trenched ground, well manured with vegetable compost. Propagation from Runners and Divisions.—All varieties of the strawberry, except the Wood and Alpine, propagate rapidly by" means of runners. These, when a new variety is procured, should be carefully watched, and as fast as they make joints, should be pegged down, and have fine soil or sharp sand scattered over them to induce them more readily to make roots. In this way from fifty to one hundred new plants can be obtained from a single one in a season. To secure a bed of those most prolific in old grounds, select while in fruit, and set. stakes by side of those from which you wish to renew; after fruiting, destroy all around, thus giving them light and room to form abundance of new plants. The Wood and Alpine varieties are propagated easily from seed with but little variation. They are also propagated by dividing the roots or cluster of roots early in the spring. Fertile and Barren Plants.—It is an old saying that " every person enjoys some hobby on which to ; Mr. N. Longworth, of Cincinnati, has received the credit of starting the hobby of (in common phrase) male and "female strawberry blossoms; and so vigorously has the hobby been ridden, that, with locomotive power and speed, it has found its way into every journal in the country, whether horticultural or otherwise; and so generally is the dis- tinction of staminate (male) and pistillate (female) flowers under- stood, that we do not deem it necessary here to re-describe. " The European Wood and Alpine strawberries always maintain a natural character of the blossom, no matter how cultivated, and therefore every blossom gives a perfect ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
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