432 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The editor of the Magazine of Horticulture, in January, 1865, in his review 

 of the past year remarks : " Lennig's White has proved a very excellent straw- 

 berry, new in color, a good grower, fair size, abundant bearer, and rich in quali- 

 ty.' In certain places it has the synonyms, "White Pine Apple" and "Albion 

 White." The following statement of its origin, etc., is extracted from the 

 Gardeners Monthly for October, 1855, written by the editor in answer to the 

 queries of a correspondent : "Lennig's White strawberry was raised by an 

 amateur in Germantown and distributed freely by him to his friends, at a time 

 when the Albany Seedling was in everybody's garden. N^eighbor got 'Albanys' 

 from neighbor, and as many had been trying the 'White,' after a while found 

 *a new seedling' coming up accidentally amongst their ' Albanys,' and hence the 

 White Albany originated in many a score of gardens here. A few pomolo- 

 gists also found them. And the editor of the Germantown Telegraph named 

 it the ' White Pine Apple,' without knowing anything about the Ananas of the 

 French catalogues. A committee of the Horticultural Society of Pennsylvania 

 also 'found' it and they named it 'Albion,' and this is how it came to have 'all 

 these names.' Lennig's White is the proper name." 



Downing's notice of it is as follows : " Origin, supposed Germantown, Pa. 

 This is one of the very finest flavored sorts grown ; but unfortunately it pro- 

 duces but very moderate crops, and is therelbre unsuited to any but amateurs. 

 Plants vigorous. Hermaphrodite. 



"Fruit, large, roundish obtuse conical. Seeds reddish, not deep. Color 

 whitish, tinged with red. Flesh soft, tender, juicy, sweet, rich, delicious pine 

 apple flavor." 



No. 5.— THE GREEN PROLIFIC 



is indebted to the editor of the Magazine of Horticulture for an early notice of 

 its origin, in the October number for the year 1863, as follows: " This is the 

 name of a variety produced by Seth Boyden, Esq., of New Jersey, from Hovey's 

 Seedling and Kitley's Goliath. * * * The plants are very hardy, vigorous 

 growers, with very large, dark green foliage ; fruit large, very uniform, round, 

 orange scarlet, good flavored, solid, parts readily from the stem, grows well up 

 from the ground, and is extremely prolific ; even more so than the Wilson or 

 Downer's Prolific. It should be grown in drills or single rows." 



Speaking from the experience of the same year, a committee of NeAV Jersey 

 growers remark: " The Green Prolific is a strong plant, with hardy leaf, and 

 is exceedingly productive. The berries are large, but a little inclined to be 

 soft." 



F. E. Elliot, of Ohio, in a communication to the Horticulturist, in August, 

 1866, remarks : " With Triomphe de Gand we have imbibed a peculiar aroma, 

 and with Green Prolific obtained, when fully ripe, the nearest to the perfect in 

 quality of strawberry." To which he adds : "In productiveness, few varieties 

 are its equals. In size of fruit its average is above medium, while they are 

 uniform, not a few large and the remainder quite small, as in some varieties." 



At Boston it is characterized, after full trial, as a strong plant with very 

 hardy leaf, and exceedingly productive. 



At the June meeting of Western New York Fruit Growers, for the year 1867, 

 of twenty-eight ballots for the best six amateur varieties, it received four. 



It has been grown in our State for several years, and seems to have given 

 eminent satisfaction as an amateur or family variety. 



Downing notices it as follows : " Plant hardy, very vigorous, very produc- 

 tive, and is highly valued by some as a market sort. Pistillate. 



