POPULAR AND VALUABLE VARIETIES OF FRUIT. 47 



subacid and very good. This new seedling promises to supersede all other 

 red varieties now under cultivation, as it confirms all the requisites heretofore 

 wanting, viz., beauty, great productiveness, very large size, bright scarlet color, 

 and superior flavor. — Wm. Parry's Circular. 



Lum^s Everbearing — This variety is very much like the Ohio Everbearing 

 Black Cap. Like the Catawissa, it is advisable, when a full autumn crop is 

 desired, to cut away the canes in spring. 



Mammoth Cluster (McCormick) — A variety of the American Black Cap, 

 with stronger and more vigorous canes, having fewer spines, and more pro- 

 ductive, and is the largest and best Black Cap yet produced. Fruit similar in 

 form to American Black Cap, but of much larger size, of deeper color, more 

 bloom, juice, and sweetness. 



Ohio Everbearing — It is precisely like the American Black Cap in all re- 

 spects except that it has the valuable property of bearing abundant crops of 

 fine fruit till late in the season. 



Orange (Brinckle's Orange) — This is unquestionably the largest and finest 

 light-colored raspberry yet known, and deserves a place in every garden ; fruit 

 large ; color, beautiful orange ; excellent. 



Philadelphia — Fruit medium; dark crimson or purplish red; flesh mod- 

 erately soft, mild, subacid, good. The cones are hardy, vigorous, and very 

 productive. The most profitable red market sort. 



Purple Cane — Medium size: purplish maroon, slight bloom; flesh soft, 

 juicy, and rich. A native sort. 



Seneca Black Cap — A variety of the Black Cap. It is larger and later than 

 Doolittle ; very vigorous, very productive; fruit rather larger than Doolittle; 

 not as black, but with a shade of purple; light bloom ; juicy and sweet. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



No garden should be destitute of this delicious fruit. They are easily grown 

 and productive. One rod square, well treated, should yield at least two bush- 

 els. The ground should be deeply spaded and well manured. Put out the 

 j)lants in rows two feet apart, in hills twelve or fifteen inches distant. They 

 can be planted at almost any season of the year. Of course, if planted in warm, 

 dry weather, they must be watered and shaded. The runners should be kept 

 cut off, which can be easily done with a sharp spade. In the winter, leaves, 

 coarse manure or litter should be placed around and over them. 



Time to Mulch Strawberries. — Whatever may be said of the best time to 

 mulch strawberries to protect them during the winter's cold and the spring 

 frosts, my experience rests in putting on the mulch just after the ground has 

 become frozen, — say one to two inches deep ; cover the line between the crowns 

 of the vines four inches deep, and over the crowns put only one inch. Straw, 

 leaves, bog hay, or coarse grass litter, is all that is requisite. — Cor. Country 

 Gentleman. 



Agriculturist — Fruit large ; deep crimson ; flesh dark red, quite firm, juicy, 

 sweet and rich. Hardy and productive. Pistillate. 



Boyden^s No. SO — Very large ; bright crimson; flesh quite firm, juicy, rich 

 subacid. Plant vigorous and very productive. 



Burr's New Pine — Medium ; light crimson ; flesh tender, juicy, with a sweet, 

 rich, aromatic flavor. Vines moderately vigorous; productive. One of the 

 most desirable for the amateur. Flowers pistillate. 



Charles Downing — Fruit very large; deep scarlet; flesh quite firm, pink, 



