NOTES ON THE STRAWBERRY. 



33. Swainstone Seedling (s) has borne freely, and is a very rich and aromatic fruit 

 yet not so agreeable flavor as some other varieties. 



34. British Queen, (s) I am not yet able to bring up the size of this fine fruit to com- 

 pete with our English friends over the water — neither does it as yet bear well. I will try 

 to do better with it another year. 



3.5. French Hautboy, (s) like common Hautboy, a profuse bearer, with its peculiar 

 flavor. 



36, 37, 38 and 39, are McAvoy''s Superior, Longioorth's Prolific, (s) Moyamensing 

 Pine, and Walker's Ssedling; (s) have all borne fruit, enabling us repeatedly to test the 

 fine rich flavor of each. The plants are also very vigorous; but I must wait another sea- 

 son before I can learn much about them. 



40. Mc^voy's Extra Red is very much in the same condition as the preceding, except 

 inferior in flavor. 



41. Kitley's Goliah (s) — could not test even the flavor, but it is now in blossom. 



42. Bicton Pine (s) has borne me a few very large and beautiful specimens, of rich 

 aromatic flavored fruit. It is the new strawberry from England; w/uie, with a delicate 

 blush on one cheek. 



43. Crescent Seedling By a series of mishaps with this plant, I finally lost the whole 

 of four successive importations from New-Orleans, after a part had finely started to grow 

 here. The fifth order was more successful, and I have six or eight plants now growing 

 vigorously in my garden, and striking runners freely — but I received them in May, in 

 pots, and so am unable to report anj^ test of them, as I ardently hoped this season; next 

 season we will see if they continue to bear through July and August, as they do in New- 

 Orleans. 



I have some other new kinds on trial, one of which has considerably excited my expec- 

 tations. I have abso some fine seedlings in bearing, decidedly diflerent from others, and 

 yet I cannot see as they excel the old standard varieties in any important sense, and there- 

 fore the}^ are unworthy of notice. If I had no strawberries, and wished to set out a bed 

 for family use, with my present knowledge, I would select one fifth of them each of No. 

 1, 2 and 5; one-tenth each of No. 26, 27, and 28. Then add, perhaps, five or ten plants 

 each of 3, 4, 10, 18 and 19, and of course try the new kinds, 36 to 43. For market I 

 would largely add No. 30 and 31. 



I have thus endeavored to give you an impartial account as I am able to do, of my ob- 

 servations on most of the varieties in bearing in my garden the past season, and am un- 

 conscious of having been biased in any way, by fear or favor. If injustice has been done 

 to any one, I will cheerfully repair it, if another season's experience will furnish facts for 

 the basis. 



Again permit me to assure your readers that another interesting season's observations 

 of the habits of the strawberry, has only confirmed me in the opinion that strawberries 

 can easily be raised with us at a cost of not exceeding six to eight shillings per bushel, 

 and the crop ought to be about as certain as a good farmer's crop of corn. Either are im- 

 patient of neglect, and both are alike certain to repay attention. The knowledge how to 

 raise either, is easily learned in both cases, and good soil will raise both. R. G. P. 



Palmyra, July S, 1852. 



