REMARKS ON THREE STANDARD FRUITS. 



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grown in this state. It has not yet been 

 sufficiently tested in the East and West to 

 enable us to speak positively of its merits 

 there ; but its exceedingly hardy character 

 affords us the best reason for believing it 

 will prove equally so in those sections of our 

 country. 



The leaf oi this variety of strawberry is 

 large, symmetrically formed; smooth, ra- 

 ther flat and handsome ; the color dark, but 

 not glossy on the upper surface. The fruit 

 is always large, but scarcely of the largest 

 size ; always very regularly formed, ovate, 

 depressed. The color is a deep purplish- 

 red, much darker than that of any othe ■ 

 Pine strawberry, and the surface of the 

 fruit is very glossy or polished, with the seeds 

 slightly imbedded. The flesh is solid, firm, 

 dark red, and unusually rich and high fla- 

 vored. The footstalks of the leaves are 

 quite downy. It ripens about the medium 

 season. 



in. THE TRUE RED ANTWERP RASPBERRY, 



We are induced to give an engraving of 

 this most excellent standard sort, because 

 even now the genuine Dutch variety is yet 

 comparatively little known, except around 

 Boston and New- York. Four or five culti- 

 vators of fruits, having good collections, 

 have sent us, late.y, specimens of the small 



Fig. 48. The Spurious Red Antwerp. 



and indifferent berry so generally known 

 by this name, asking us to say if such were 

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the true Ked Antwerp ? It is a small and 

 very inferior fruit, fig. 48, entirely unworthy 

 of cultivation. 



The true Red Antwerp is correctly shown 

 in the accompanying illustration, fig. 49. 

 It is every way a fruit of the highest merit, 

 very large, a regular and abundant bearer, 

 of high flavor, and will not, we think, be 

 displaced from our gardens by any new sort. 

 Its fruit is very regularly conical, rather 

 longer and more regularly shaped than that 

 of any other sort. 



An opinion of a new fruit cannot be said 

 to be fixed, till it is based upon trials made 

 in various parts of the country. Since the 

 publication of our account of the Fastolff 

 Raspberry, we have received the following 

 note from a higly respectable fruit-grower, 

 near New- York, who raises the raspberry 

 extensively for market. The writer is one 

 whose opinion is one of weight, and his 

 remarks are to the point at the present mo- 

 ment. 



" I have read your article on the new 

 English raspberry — the Fastolff. I raise 

 the raspberry largely for market, and hav- 

 ing about one hundred good sets of the 

 Fastolff in full bearing, can give an opinion 

 with probably as much confidence as any 

 body else in this country. 



" The Fastolff is a very fine fruit, and 

 merits all you say of it. But I do not think 

 it, at least for my purposes, equal on the 

 whole to the real old Red Antwerp, which I 

 have long grown a great quantity of. The 

 Fastolff is not much, if at ail larger than 

 the Antwerp, with the same adtivat'wn •* it 

 is nut richer to the taste ; and it has for the 

 market grower the defect of being a soft 

 fruit. In other words, it will not bear car- 

 riage well. The real Red Antwerp is not 

 injured by being picked or carried to mar- 



* Vou know liow a new sort of fruit is always nursed and 

 stimulated into large size. 



