Show the porcine of strawberries for forcing daring next winter oust be made now and when properly bandied few erpel bof will afford more interest and pleasure to the amateur or more profit to the commercial grower than the when crown a a winter yop under els the requirements are well heated house in which a temperature pera ture ol 01 65 degree can be maintained during february and march and where tiie plants can ha placed near the glass atje pant be obtained from plantations beet early in the spring pre or in july or adust of the year bea re and abot allowed ta fruit by layering th ft that form in two and a half or three inch pots tb it have beba plunged near them junices alie ga id i a rich aandy loam the pots be with rood compost la a out two weeke the pots mil a dij by roots and the plants abound aben repotted into four inch pots and placed in a cold frame here they should bo kept during the fall rea ainne direful attention in watering and being repotted to five inch and again to eis inca which raould be the fruiting size as as the emiller sites hare become filled with roots II 11 at any time leaf blicht or any other fungous disease appears upon them the plants should be sprayed with bordeaux mixture in order to force successfully the plants must form strong crowns and hard en them before winter comes on aa freezing weather approaches the frames thonia ce covered with glass to prevent the breaking of the pots by frost plunging the pots in sand or coal aches will also be desirable on the same account the plants should bo kept in the frame until about the first of jan uary after which short rest they can be brought into heat 11 a succession is desired only a part of the plants should be started at first and these should be placed in a room where a temperature of 10 to 45 degrees can be maintained at night with thorough ventilation during the day all dead and diseased leaves should be removed and the plants sprayed with a one to solution one ounce to eight gallons of water of copper sulphate to destroy all coores ot fungi other lots should be brought m at intervals of two to tour weeks in five or six weeks after growth ecart the plants will blossom and they should then be transferred to a warmer room or the temperature raised to 65 ar 70 degrees at night the pollen will be shed moat freely in a warm dry and these conditions must be secured in order to have the flowers properly fertilized the pollen will however be transferred by hand from the stamens to the pistils and it cabbe done beet by means of a small camele hair brush at the time carrying along any poll enthat may be jound on a small spoon or wooden paddle care must be taken that pollen Is conveyed to every pistil or the fruity wal be ir in form the pollinating should be repeated every pleasant mornine As eloa as the lull has set the application ot liquid manure should commence and be repeated two or three times we k until the fruits begin to color more than eight or ten duits sit upon a plant the smaller and ones be removed the plants should not be allowed to fuffer for wint ol 01 water eod on warm bright mornings the foliage should be ey ringed but this ie not advisable when tho plante are in blossom or after t e arnit begins to color in tu keep tle fruit from the damp will be likely to rot bome support must be provided mr giunn 0 the cornell experimental station who has ben quite successful in forcing strawberries IB well pleased with cork chip and with netting placed upon the rota in about a month from the timo the fruit beets the berries will begin to ripen and in ten days to two weeks the plants may be thrown out and replaced with others which will need the same care except that 1 need be paid to pollinating the flowers the red epi der and aphis bo troublesome unless proper remedies ara need varieties selected will have much to do with the results secured for the best sneeze it should be an early sort with rather abort petioles and small leaves flat is little subject to disease di unless other perfect flowering plants are grown to provide pollen for them pistil lote sorts should not be selected although many of the imper fact flowered varieties are yell adapted for forcing the Beder woud a perfect flowered lety is one of the best he principal fault being the light color or the fruit la bood market well crown arnit will bring from two to four dollars per quart in february and not over a dozen plants which in six inch pots will not occupy more than three or feet will be required to furnish them and they will not occupy the house more than ten or twelve weeks there is also a call for the plants while in fruit at prices that will be quite remunerative |