editor's tablb. 



simkI to Mr. C. Dowuing, in hojws the original name could be restored. Tlie f<*w English 

 varietifti we have hitherto tried (such as Bicton Pino, British Queen, Black Prince, kc) 

 have not aucceeded. The Smythe was the earliest to ripen V>oth soafions, and bore three 

 weeks after all other varieties are gone, and, at the same time, in profusion. Tiie foliage is 

 dark-green ; leatlcts, large, on short footstalks ; fruit-stems, stout and erect. 



"Hovej's Seedling, and most of the old kinds, were, this season, more or less cut olT by 

 our sitring frosts. The Smythe, Walker, Moyamensing, and Bishop's Orange, were little 

 injured, aud bore j^rofusely. 



"Not much fruit here, except apples, of which there is a moderate crop. Grajies are 

 unusually promising." 



CoLCMBL's, Geo., July 5, 18r>7. 



Pe\r Sir : Allow me to answer an inqiaiiy respecting Mr. Peabody's new strawberry. I 

 visited Mr. P.'s grounds early in March. Ilis bed of the new variety (about three acres) 

 was literally covered with bloom. The runners had not been removed the previous year, 

 so that the prospect for an immense crop was very flattering ; some fruit had set, and it 

 was then evident to me that it would prove a very fine variety ; but this crop was entirely 

 cut off by the very severe frost of 15th of March, and, through the remainder of that month 

 aud April, we had continuous frost — fatal to the strawberry blossom. I again saw the bed 

 about 10th of June, when there was a tolerable crop of very fine fruit, and could have 

 selected many trusses from the bed fully equal to those represented in the published plate, 

 and have this day (July 4) brought home from Mr. P.'s a basket of fruit of large size and 

 great beauty, notwithstanding a severe drought prevails, so that corn is suffering badly ; 

 aud there is ample evidence that the bed would continue iu bearing some time yet, if 

 tlioroughly watered. 



As a market variety, it is a valuable acquisition, bearing transportation well to unprece- 

 dented long distances. It is early, of good size, remarkably fine flavor, hermaphrodite, aud 

 a great bearer. It is not a hautboys variety, however ; it more resembles Burr's New Pine, 

 but is more sugary. 



It affords me pleasure to record this as no humbug, but, on the contrary, worthy of full 

 confidence, at least, in the Southern States. Respectfully yours, Geo. Kidd. 



Saratoga Springs, June 30. 

 Editor IIorticulturist : I have just been reading the Horticulturist, and I see in it a query 

 as to the Rhode Island Greening, iu 185G,and I take the liberty of suggesting that the little 

 care taken in grafting as to the stocks upon which the grafts are set, seems to me to have 

 the efi'ect of deteriorating many of the choice apples. I have had a sort of theory, for some 

 time past, that the original stock aflfected the product of a graft ; thus I think I can very 

 easily tell whether a " gillyflower" was grown from a graft set iu a sour or sweet apple stock. 

 The one from the sour stock will be much more juicy (it seems to me) than one grown on 

 a sweet stock. If there is such an effect, why may not continued grafting on to miscella- 

 neous stocks in time deteriorate the apple until the descendant will be recognized as a new 

 variety ? I am no practical horticulturist, to experiment in this matter, but I think the 

 experiment might be tried by some one who has an abundance of trees, and the result 

 reported in a few years, very much to the edification of fruit growers. Say a gillyflower 

 graft was set, this year, on a hard, sour apple stock, and a companion graft from the same 

 tree, set on a sweet stock ; next year, or as soon as grafts could be procured from these 

 grafts, work them again on other branches of the same tree, and so keep grafting from the 

 to the same, and other trees of like nature, and others of various sorts. In the 

 of five or six years, the grafts would come into bearing, and the matter would be 



