FRAGUIER out much trouble. They increase exceedingly every summer, both by off-fets or suckers from the sides of the plants, and by the runners or strings, all of which rooting and forming plants at every joint, each of which separately planted bears a few fruit the following year, and bear in great perfection the second summer. Those of the Alpine kind will even bear fruit the same year that they are formed. All the sorts are commonly cultivated in kitchen-gardens, in beds or borders of common earth, in rows lengthwise 15 or 18 inches distance; the plants the same distance from one another in each row. Patches of the different sorts disposed here and there in the fronts of the different compartments of the pleasure-ground, will appear ornamental both in their flowers and fruit, and make an agreeable variety.
Strawberries, eaten either alone, or with sugar and milk, are universally esteemed a most delicious fruit. They are grateful, cooling, subacid, and juicy. Tho' taken in large quantities, they seldom disagree. They promote perspiration, impart a violet smell to the urine, and dissolve the tartaceous incrustations on the teeth. People afflicted with the gout or stone have found relief by using them very largely; and Hoffman says, he has known consumptive people cured by them. The bark of the root is astringent.—Sheep and goats eat the plant; cows are not fond of it; horses and swine refuse it.