Excerpt from A Treatise on the Improved Culture of the Strawberry, Raspberry, and Gooseberry: Designed to Prove the Present Common Mode of Cultivation Erroneous, and the Cause of Miscarriage in Crops of Fruit; Also to Introduce a Cheap and Rational Method of Cultivating the Varieties of Each Genius, by Which Ample Crops of Superior Fruit May Be Un BY the cultivation laid down, the fruit age of the several varieties may be obtained in far greater perfection of size and flavour than by former practice together with an easy and certain method of preserving its fruit in full perfection beyond the common season of maturity. Also, a novel System of propagating the several sorts, by planting cuttings taken from bearing trees, when their fruit is fully ripe, by which much time will be saved, and the particular species with certainty be obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.