1857.] Longworth's Prolific Slraiohcrry . 299 



wei2;lit bushel. These specimens are now looking beautiful. The 

 White Flint, Genessee, Blue Stem, Mediterranean, Turkish Flint 

 and some others appear quite promising. It is truly interesting to 

 witness their development. We hope to be able to present a large 

 number of excellent specimens at our State Fair this fall. — Ed. 



LONGWORTH'S PROLIFIC STRAWBERRY. 



Op all the strawberries recommended for general cultivation, we must 

 unhesitatingly place this at the head. As its name imports, it is a 

 truly prolific variety, yielding from twenty to twenty-five berries to 

 a single truss, the prime ones surpassing in size any other variety 

 cultivated among us. 



Its chief excellencies consist in its being perfect in both organs, 

 and therefore yielding a large crop in itself, and at the same time, 

 being the very best fertilizer for any pistilate variety you see fit to 

 introduce along side of it. 



One of the chief objections, to the best purely staminate plants is, 

 that by reason of their not bearing, they are more vigorous in growth, 

 and sending forth more profusely their runners, though at first few 

 in number, soon supplant the pistilates that you rely upon to 

 bear fruit, and thus the novice in strawberry culture finds and 

 asserts that his bed has all turned to males, or in common parlance 

 run Old. 



Here you have in the prolific an excellent bearer, a fine market 

 berry, fair in flavor, and with all, a superior fertilizer. The prolific 

 will thrive upon the poorest clay soil, and bears well the summer's 

 heat and the winter's cold. In its cultivation, stir the ground deeply, 

 better trench as for grapes, then set in rows three feet each way and 

 let them run. If you introduce pistilates you may set them in al- 

 ternate rows, or to the extent of four-fifths pistilates if you desire. 

 For so far as fertilization is concerned, one fifth the number of pro- 

 lific is sufficient even for McAvoy's superior, the most difficult to 

 fully impregnate of any pistilate that has come under my obsci'va- 

 tion. 



By all means secure this plant, if it should be at a cost of five 

 dollars for a single specimen. If set in the spring it will give you 

 in all probability fifty fine plants by fall then throw away as trash all 

 merely staminate plants. — Ed. 



