Letters: Lady Sligo Collection. H. C. Sligo to G. Hildebrand [1845]-07-29 Pages 2

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Clontarf July 29th

Hildebrand

I sent to-day by the Coach some Strawberry runners for Lynch. Tell him to be careful to keep the kinds all separate. Elton’s Strawberry has the advantage of being very late, & is only now getting ripe. Tell Lynch that they ought now to be planted close, & taken up in next October, & planted in squares either 2 feet , or at least 1 foot 9 inches apart. & every winter summer to have all the runners entirely cleared away, so that in winter the plants look very small, & the distances between them immense.--- by squares I mean this way by which there is a clear straight walk between every plant --- the old way of

• • • • • planting strawberries in diamonds in this way • • • • • is quite left off

• • • • • by in all the new style of gardens. • • • •

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Yours

Catherine Sligo

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