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flavour. Ingram's Rifleman has very- 

 fine fruit of good flavour, and is a 

 free-bearing useful kind. Auguste 

 Van Geert is an Alpine cross with 

 prominent seeds, and poor in flavour, 

 but bears well. Choix d'un Connois- 

 seur is rather small, very free crop- 

 per, of a good colour, but deficient iu 

 flavour. Refresher is a French kind, 

 resembling Empress Eugenie, with 

 very large irregularly-shaped fruit, 

 which is very juicy, but not superior 

 in flavour to the Empress or Sir 

 Harry. British Sovereign, one of 

 Messrs. Stewart and Neilson's seed- 

 lings, is a very fine sort, with rich 

 sugary flavour. Blandford resembles 

 the British Queen in habit and fruit, 

 and has a brisk sugary flavour and 

 fine fruit. Eimberley is a large, 

 showy, Gne-cropping strawberry, but 

 is poor in flavour. Comte de Zaus is 

 a very heavy bearer, and has very 

 large fruit of medium flavour. Pre- 

 sident is a good cropper, with large, 

 handsome, sweet, juicy fruit. Rivers's 

 Eliza and La Constante both keep up 

 their characters as first-class kinds ; 

 and Marguerite is a large, free-crop- 

 ping kind, of fine flavour and firm 

 substance. Crimson Cluster raised 

 by Mrs. Clements, of Bodmin, is a 

 free-bearing kind, with large fruit of 

 a brisk pleasant flavour. Sir Joseph 



Paxton, one of Mr. Ingram's fine 

 seedlings, is a free bearer, with hand- 

 some fruit of a rich sugary flavour. 

 Crimson Queen is a large-fruited, 

 good sort for sale, but should be fre- 

 quently renewed. Savoureuse, one 

 of Mr. Gloede's seedlings I think, 

 very much resembles La Constante, 

 and has a full Hautbois flavour. This 

 seems a very promising kind. It has 

 not been a prDductive strawberry at 

 Yarm, probably owing to the very 

 dry summers of 1864 and 1865, the 

 former especially. Many kinds were 

 not in good character, so that I have 

 not alluded to them. 



One of the be3t strawberry 

 growers in Yorkshire, the Rev. 

 Charles Marsden, Vicar of Gargrave, 

 near Skipton, grows La Constante 

 and British Queen superbly ; and this 

 summer, when strawberries generally 

 failed, he had an abundance of fine 

 fruit. He treats these two things as 

 annuals, and plants a new batch of 

 runners every year, and gets fine 

 plants and very fine fruit ; but then 

 he gives them liberal growth, and 

 waters copiously during the dry sum- 

 mer weather. Two years terminates 

 the career of the plants with him, 

 but he trusts chiefly to the one-year- 

 old plants for his supply. 



William Dean. 



THE VINERY AT CHISWICK. 



The vinery makes amends for all the 

 nonsense of the Royal Hortictxltural 

 Society's garden at Chiswick. The 

 structure so denominated was one of 

 the Society's great jobs in times gone 

 by, and the late much-lamented Mr. 

 M'Ewen was as good as a magician 

 when he found a really good purpose 

 for it in planting it with vines. The 

 rods now reach the top, and on the 

 day of inspection they were full of 

 fruit from top to bottom. There are 

 about seventy sorts in the house, but 

 the old and well-known sorts predo- 

 minate. Black Hamburgh, Black 

 Prince, Lady Downes, Morocco, 

 Dutch Hamburgh, Mill Hill Ham- 



burgh, Burchardt's Prince, Muscat 

 Hamburgh, and Prankenthal are all 

 finely shown as the best of the best 

 grapes, and for beauty, flavour, and 

 productiveness unsurpassed. There 

 were plenty of bunches in the house 

 quite fit for exhibition, and it is 

 rather odd, though nobody asked the 

 reason why, that the society did not 

 send a collection of bundles to Edin- 

 burgh. Judging the black grapes by 

 their bunches as they hang in the 

 house, the most handsome is Muscat 

 Hamburg, the bunch long and taper- 

 ing, finely shouldered, the berries 

 oval, large, black, and with a most 

 delicate bloom. Barbarossa is here 



