editor's table. 



Book in the Ohio Cultivator; to tliis the editor adds the following : "Note. Bro. liatehara 

 puts it to Father Hooper right strong. Wo fear he has struck a hollow tooth into a crab or 

 persimmon, lately, that makes him write so savagely." 



STRAWBERRIE8 IN lowA. — Tlio 0]i\o Ciill i rdtar says : " Robert Sd^evers was one of our pomo- 

 locical correspondents some years ago, in Coshocton Co., from whence he removed to Iowa 

 about five years since. We see, by the Oskaloosa Herald, that he is still raising fruit, as 

 set forth in the following statement : ' The ground occupied was fifty-nine feet long by four- 

 teen wide. He has gathered from this patch of vines, the present season, one hundred and 

 Hflil-two quarts, or four bushels and three pecks of berries. At this rate, the yield per aero 

 would be two hundred and tliirty-two bushels. Mr. S. sold his crop at twenty cents per quart. 

 An acre of ground planted in strawberries, would bring to the owner, at this rate, eight hun- 

 dred and forty-four dollars and eight cents, in one season. Mr. Seevers is pretty extensively 

 engaged in this branch of business. The above yield is from ' McAvoy's Superior' plants.' " 



SuRrBS WITH Ornamental Berries. — A friend has kindly written to me, to point out an 

 error in my paper on the above subject, which I hope you will give mo the opportunity to 

 correct. In treating of Gaultheria shallon and G. procumhens, the sentence reads as if both 

 had black berries. The G. procumbens has red berries. This is well known as the Tea- 

 berry (a name also given, in many parts of Pennsylvania, to the fruit of Mitchella repens), 

 and as an ingredient in many varieties of tooth paste, powders, and washes, and as coloring 

 matter for Swaim's Panacea, and a flavoring article for other so-called " remedies," is ex- 

 tensively known. 



Rhus coriaria should read R. glabrum. I have seen what I take to be a form of R. 

 glabrum, though differing in the form of the panicle, time of flowering, and shape of the 

 leaves, and which I consider to be the R. elegans of English gardens, that always bears 

 male flowers ; as this does not, of course, bear berries, those who wish to cultivate the R. 

 glabrum for its fruit, must take care to get the proper variety. 



A lady correspondent further complains that I have neglected to include in my list the 

 Daphne mezereum, which she justly considers equal in beauty with its scarlet berries to 

 anything I have described. At the moment of writing, I had on my mind that it was not 

 hardy enough to be included ; but as it is certainly hardier than some I have described 

 (especially Cerasus Caroliniensis and Callicarpa Americana, which, as my friend first alluded 

 to observes, in his letter, he has " scarcely been able to get to live over a Penusylvanian 

 winter"), I have no excuse to offer my fair friend for the omission. Thos. Meehan. 



The Church Pear. — Some one has been good enough to show me a scrap of the Rural Neiv 

 Yorker respecting the Church Pear, pretending that it was not a seedling but a Bergamot, 

 known in Flushing, if I remember, and much like it. I had no occasion to compare the 

 wood or the fruit, but that the Church-tree is an original seedling, I have not the least doubt. 

 "Why should that old tree be the only one of that Flushing variety grafted sixty or seventy 

 years ago in New Rochelle, among scores of old, all of them wild pear-trees, either of the same 

 age, or thereabout ? There would be another tree grafted with that variety, if it was so 

 much esteemed as to have attracted notice over Long Island Sound ; this would seem a 

 natural proceeding, but no grafts were made. Moreover, the original Church bears no mark 

 of ever having been grafted. 



I asked Mr. Carpenter to take up a piece of the root, which I shall plant, and if the foliage 

 should prove different from the large parent tree, I shall give up my opinion, in which I 

 have no interest. Till then, I think the large, fine Church-tree to be as original a seedling 

 as I ever saw before. The close resemblance of both fruits is no proof to the contrary ; 



