STRAWBERRIES AND THEIR NUTRITION. 



with which our markets are mostly filled, poor sour things, only fit for preserving — and such 

 fruits as Willc}-, Columbus, Iowa, Neck Pine, (no pine at all,) and most of the other 

 heav}' bearers that, as W9 understand, fill the great strawberry market of Cincinnati, are 

 no better.* They are when compared to fine flavored pine strawberries, what a sour 

 cooking apple is to the finest Newtown pippin — or the acid Malagatune peaches that fill 

 New-York markets to delicious Rareripes — or poor TenerifFe to the best pale Sherry. But 

 so long as we were denied by our climate the satisfaction of cultivating any others, we 

 were farced, of course, to be contented with sour Scarlets. 



Dr. Hull's great success with the British Queen, the most productive and delicious of 

 the Pine strawberries (a fruit to be found at every private table and good hotel in the 

 north of Europe, averaging three to four inches in circumference,) has been so remarka- 

 ble, and the reason for it is so simple that we predict from it a revolution in strawberry 

 culture; and this result has been had too in the face of a very dry and exposed site — where 

 this same strawberry invariably pushes up in summer if cultivated in the common way. 

 And the whole secret of his success in growing this and the other most delicious pine 

 strawbeiries — such a Goliath — Schiller, Myatt's Eliza, &c. is nothing more than to make 

 the soil rich and keep the beds cool in summer and warm in icinter by a mulching of two 

 or three inches oj fresh tan-bark. 



The adjoining cut is 

 an accurate repiesenta- 

 tion of Briti.sh Queen 

 Strawberries, taken 

 from Dr. Hull's beds, 

 and not selected but 

 chosen of the average 

 large size. The flavor 

 was higher, and the 

 color richer and darker 

 than any specimens 

 that we saw in England 

 in 1850— though fruit 

 nearly twice this size 

 is by means unusual 

 there. In our own 

 garden we had nearly 

 as good results with 



less care, and this season, in order to satisfy ourselves that these sorts hitherto considered 

 too delicate for our hot climate, were really rendered hardy by the tan mulching, we 

 planted two beds, — mulched one and left the other bare, in the usual way. It is now 

 mid-summer — the mulched bed is very luxuriant and healthy; the unmulched shows the 

 usual half-burned and starved appearance, common to the European Pines in this climate. 



As we know our friend Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, is the sworn foe of the stami- 

 nates or Pine strawberries — afflicted with utter want of faith in their power of giving a 

 crop, and the staunch friend of the pistillate Scarlets, knowing them to bear abundantly, 

 we requested our neighbor Dr. Hull to .set apart some average hills or patches in his beds 

 of British Queen, and keep an account of their prcduct for the benefit of such skeptics. 



ey"s Seedling; and Bun's New Pine, nre exceptions — not Scarlets — but apparently a cross between .Scarlets 

 by far the best strawberries for lliis climate in general cultivation — but not equal in flavor to the true Pines. 



British Queen Strawberries from Dr. HulVs beds. 



