10 AUGUST 1951, Page 18

This Summer's Strawberries

think the reason for the bullet-like strawberries, of which Mr. Massingham's correspondent complained, was probably want of water. This year my beds required two thorough soakings between flowering and the colouring of the fruit. The water should be sufficient to penetrate the whole bed to the subsoil. i grow a strain of strawberries (the Waterperry), which in two years form really big plants.—Yours faithfully,