NOTES ON THE BEST STRAWBERRIES. 



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but it is Early Red Margaret, I think. 

 Yellow Harvest ; May — this is the 2d one, 

 I think ; Sweet Bough ; Red June ; Sum- 

 mer Queen, and another, larger than any 

 except the 2d, striped, but not so good. 



The Summer Queen I have, has no 

 blush. It resembles, very closely, the 

 Yellow Harvest. [This is not Summer 

 Queen. Ed.] 



1 would only recommend Yellow Har- 

 vest — yellow ; Red June — quite red, and 

 Sweet Bough* — beautifully striped; all 

 ripe about the same day, say June 6. 



I have fruit from so many sources, that I 

 find some uncertainty, at least in name ; 

 but when using your names, I then allude 

 to the varieties that bear your test, — " Fruit 

 and Fruit Trees of America." 



I have a few pears, but too few to judge 

 from ; and the frost of the 16th of April did 



some injury to them. In several instances, 

 the pears dropped in a few days after. 



Although the frost of the 16th of April 

 would seem to have put the season back, 

 yet the remarkably dry and warm month of 

 April has hastened fruit to maturity, so 

 that the Elmira that has ripened here, some 

 four or five years, usually 15th to 30th June, 

 has ripened here by the 5th this year. Early 

 York usually 1st of July, ripened also 6th 

 June. 



I have had roasting ears from the corn- 

 field since the 11th. A few cotton blooms 

 were seen yesterday, — only one week later 

 than last year; but my cotton was not 

 killed by the spring frost, though no one 

 nearer than eight or ten miles was so fa- 

 vored. With great respect, I am yours, 

 M. W. Philips. 



EJtcards, Miss., June 14, 1849. 



NOTES ON THE BEST STRAWBERRIES. 



BY G. W. HUNTSMAN, FLUSHING, L. I. 



Dear Sir — Now that another strawberry 

 season is past, it may be interesting to 

 make some remarks upon such kinds as 

 have proved superior. Last summer, Burr's 

 New Pine was much praised by those who 

 had it in fruit. With me, it has again 

 fully sustained its previous high character. 

 It is not so large as Hovey's Seedling, or 

 the Boston Pine; but then its productive- 

 ness and delicious spicy flavor, in which 

 it is unrivalled, added to its early maturing, 

 (being quite as early as the Early Scarlet,) 

 more than compensate for its inferiority in 

 size, and make it decidedly the most de- 

 sirable strawberry in cultivation. 



It is also a vigorous growing plant ; 



* Sweet Bough is never s'.riptd ; it is probably Early 

 Strawberry. Ed. 



enough so to admit of being cultivated in 

 separate stools, which is by far the most 

 elegant mode of culture, especially in pri- 

 vate gardens, where the soil can be made 

 deep and rich ; as by this mode, the ground 

 can be covered with straw or litter, which 

 will serve the double purpose of keeping it 

 moist, and the fruit clean. 



Next to Burr's New Fine, I consider 

 Hovey's Seedling the most desirable, which, 

 as it ripens about ten days later, cannot be 

 entirely superseded by it. Hovey's Seed- 

 ling does sometimes bum out. This can 

 be remedied by deepening the soil, and 

 keeping the plants in a high state of culti- 

 vation. In a moist, loamy soil, I do not 

 find it to burn. As I have previously re- 

 marked, this variety, to attain perfection, 



