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teristics of leaves, flowers, and fruits, and many other highly important 

 features of experiment. 



I. -NOTES ON FRUITS. 



As our gardens must always be maintained largely for purposes of illus- 

 tration, it is necessary to retain certain instructive, interesting, or historical 

 varieties which are no longer of use to the farmer or gardener. 



STRAWBERKIES. 



All the strawberries enumerated in the following list were set during last 

 August and early September. Other varieties will be set next spring. In 

 order to test the effects of soils upon the character of varieties, plants of 

 many sorts and from the same sources have been set upon widely different 

 soils, upon those ranging in character from light sand to heavy clay loam. 

 Upon these dissimilar soils the plants will be given the same culture. 



Alpine Wood. 



Atlantic. 



Belle Bordelaise. 



Bidwell. 



Captain Jack. 



Cinderella. 



Crescent. 



Crystal City. 



Cumberland. 



Daniel Boone. 



Downing. 



Finch's Prolific. 



Glendale. 



Green's Prolific. 



Henderson. 



James Vick. 



Jersey Queen. 



Jewell. 



Jucunda. 



Kentucky. 



Longfellow Improved. 



Lord ( Vinelanil). 



Lower. 



Manchester. 



Marvin. 



Miner's Prolific. 



Mrs. Garfield. 



Monarch of the West. 



Mt. Vernon. 



Nigh's Superb. 



Old Iron Clad. 



Ontario. 



Parry, 



Pioneer {King of the North). 



Piper. 



Prince of Berries. 



Royal Hautbois. 



Seth Boyd en. 



Sharpless. 



Sucker State. 



Triomphe de Gand. 



Wilson. 



Windsor Chief. 



Woodruff Xo. 1. 



Woodruff No. 2. 



Also Benjamin Hathaway's No. 5, and a seedling from Ohio, said to have 

 been reared from seeds of Big Bob, sent under the name of '* Big Bob's 

 Baby." 



The following brief notes, which I made this year upon strawberries grown 

 here and in this vicinity, mostly upon light soils, and with indifferent cul- 

 ture in matted rows, are selected from a recent correspondence to the Coun- 

 try Gentleman : 



Atlantic: — Very late and enormous in size; flavor rich and musky; color 

 extra good, very dark. It promises well. 



