EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Co\STANT Bearing Strawberries. — In the December number of the Horticulturist the opinion 

 is expressed that there is in the extract from the Cincinnati Gazette " a mistake in regard to 

 Hovey's Seedling bearing from the lOlh March until September," on the estate of Mr. C. A. Pea- 

 body, near Columbus, Georgia. Early last summer I noticed the article referred to, as I had 

 previously similar statements, whereupon I immediately opened a correspondence with Mr. P. on 

 the subject, that I might become minutely acquainted witli the facts. During that correspon- 

 dence he sent me, as late as September, large fresh berries flattened out upon his letters as proof 

 that his Strawberries were still in bearing. Editorial notices of a similar character attesting the 

 same facts in some of the most reliable journals in the States of Ohio, Indiana, South Carolina, 

 and Georgia, have also come under my observation, and I have just seen an editoral in the 

 Savannah News of the 2d inst. (Doc.) which says: ''We received yesterday from our friend 

 Peabodt, of Columbus, by Harnden's Express, a basket containing an earthern pot in which were 

 nicely packed a cluster of Strawberry vines in full fruit, just as they were taken from the bed 

 near Columbus on Tuesday evening last. The vines are fresh with the earth and roots, and bear, 

 beside several large luscious looking specimens of ripe fruit, many green berries ranging from the 

 earliest stages of berryhood to the almost full-grown Hovey. Mr. Peabody informs us he has at 

 this time half an acre of the growing fruit presenting the appearance of the basket sent." Mr. 

 Peabody himself is the horticultural editor of the "Soil of the South," and about the first of 

 October I had tlie pleasure of a personal interview with him in this city, when he was in atten- 

 dance at the Crystal Palace as State Commissioner, and then, in addition to our correspondence, 

 he gave me the most minute description of his mode of treatment, and the strongest assurance of 

 the facts. It seems to me we shall be obliged to credit the statements of fact, however much 

 they may transcend our knowledge or experience. I have no doubt that Mr. Peabody and Mr. 

 Lawrence have given us substantially the facts in reference to the constant bearing of the Straw- 

 berry with them, although I have never given an opinion, as I am aware, that even the Crescent 

 Seedling would prolong the season north, and I could only at any time express that as a hope. I 

 still cherish the hope that we shall yet see that variety, and also Jlovey's Seedling accomplishing it. 



Mr. Peabody says : " With my plants and directions, any common sense man may certainly 

 have Strawberries at least six months in the year ;" and he also says he has no doubt he can in 

 New Jersey, by the same mode of cultivation, have an abundance of fine ripe Hovey's during the 

 months of June, July, August, and September, until frost. He also says: "The four great 

 requisites for a Strawberry bed are, proper location, vegetable manure, shade to the ground, and 

 water, water, water. The whole secret is to cultivate for fruit, and not for vine or blossom. The 

 lowest part of the garden is the best location, and ours is on poor pine land. No tree or plant 

 should be near the Strawbery bed, but shade the ground with leaves and straw, and water freely 

 to set the fruit and perfect it." He uses the Large Early Scarlet as impregnator, and further 

 says he has " no idea that the Hovey Seedling can be taken from a luxuriant bed and be made to 

 produce fruit longer than the common season. They must first go through the severe training 

 which my method of culture gives them ; this took some years to check the disposition to run." 

 In no instance does he remove the blossom, or in any way retard their fruiting, and only uses 

 such an auount of water daily, when dry, as is easily attainable and applied. 



I regret my inability — on account of my removal to this city — to carefully follow out these 

 experiments. Will not some one do it ? R. G. Pardee, — New York. 



I have seen several articles in late numbers of the Horticulturist in relation to ever-bearing 

 Strawberries, and also doubts expressed as to the possibility of pistillate plants producing fruit 

 without the aid of staminate ones. I will relate my experience on the subject ; it may, however' 

 contain nothing new to others. 



ing neglected my Strawberry beds this fall until near the middle of October, I then 

 e superfluous plants and was surprised at finding several fine stems of ripe beriies 



