In the June number of 1885 appeared my query of growing strawberries under glass, which brought forth many responses, and many have been induced to try the experiment by reason of this correspondence.

I presume you will admit me to answer inquiries through your valuable Monthly; if so, I will be as concise as possible. Take up good strong runners as early as may be in the spring, plant them in boxes 3 feet long, 6 inches wide and 6 inches deep, bottom perforated with holes to secure good drainage. Fill with well enriched soil; if heavy, add about one-fifth sand. In a box of such dimensions plant four. Place them on a layer of ashes or coarse material. Water when necessary, not allowing them to get dry. Nip off the bloom and runners as they appear, and as they grow stronger, water occasionally with weak liquid manure, increasing to two or three times a week as the plants develop. By the middle of September they will have attained the highest point of growth for the season, when water must be given sparingly. If extreme earliness is desired, remove them into a position where 6o° to 650 can be maintained during severe cold nights with the foliage well up to the glass. 1 consider the greatest importance to successful fruiting is light and heat.

This will be, in our latitude, about the 1st of November. Give plenty of air on mild days, with increased temperature as they start into action, say from 550 to 6o°, and so on until the fruit is set, when on bright days 700 may be given with benefit. Frequent syringing is absolutely necessary as the growth advances, to keep down red spider. Watering with liquid manure will again be in order, until the fruit shows signs of ripening, when it may be withheld; regulate the size according to the quantity of the fruit on each plant. This year my plants were in bloom by the middle of January, and on Washington's Birthday picked ripe berries. My varieties are the Sharp-less, Crescent seedling and Cumberland. The method is simple, and anyone may have them who has the facilities, and the best teacher is nature's own law. Hoyt, Montgomery Co., Pa.