1^56.] 



Cincinnati Horticuliural Society, etc. 75 



is not "thin," and it stands heat and drought remarkably well. Extra 

 Ficd is not '' vite trash," as designated in the "rejected list," thereby 

 catalogued as worse than the remainder of the seventy rejected sorts. 



We still hold that Strawberries, whether pistillate or otherwise, 

 should not be crowded, if a good crop is desired ; but that every indi- 

 vidual plant should have an opportunity and space to develop itself, 

 fully, the season before it is to bear fruit. 



As to the claims of Mr. Prince to the priority of discovery, or announce- 

 ment, of the sexual character of the Strawberry, in 1828, and ''which 

 has heen adopted in Ohio, and elsewhere,'" as he says on the last page 

 of his catalogue, we have only to refer to our files and newspapers for the 

 reiterated advice, offered annually by Mr. LoDgwortb, for a refutation 

 of Mr. Prince's pretensions to originality in this all-important par- 

 ticular. Then, in confirmation of this, look at results. Here, this fruit 

 has been both abundant and cheap, in consequence of the early adoption 

 of the enlightened views presented on this subject, and chiefly main- 

 tained and difi'used. through the instrumentality of Mr. Longworth ; 

 whereas, even among the i/luminafi of the East, this " theory,'' as it has 

 been jeeringly called, instead of being adopted, has been made the sub- 

 iect of ridicule. Even their writers have changed ground upon the 

 subject, repeatedly; and distinguished officers of their horticultural 

 societies are still unsettled in their opinions, and all for the want of a 

 little observation, and in spite of the convincing logic of Mr. Prince's 

 ♦'Treatise on Horticulture, published in 1828." 



Eespcctfully submitted, 



JNO. A. WARDER, ^ 



F. G. GARY, [■ CoMMnxEE. 



A. H. ERNST, J 



From the minutes of the Society it appears, that " At a regular meet- 

 ing of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, January 19, 1856, the 

 foregoing Keport was received, and on motion of Mr. A. H. Ernst, the 

 same was unanimously adopted as the sense of the Society, and ordered 

 to be published in ' The Cincinnatus' " 



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THE SPIDER. 

 'Look upon my web so fine. 

 See how threads with threads entwine ; 

 If the evening wind alone 

 Breathe upon it, all is gone. 

 Thus within the darkest place 

 Allah's wisdom thou may st trace ; 

 Feeble though the insect be, 

 Allah speaks through that to thee." 



