GARDENING GOSSIP. 



in Western New York, and in many parts of the west, is a very moderate, and in 

 many cases a poor bearer. We have had no crop so heavy the past season (when all 

 bore well) as on the Monroe Scarlet. 



Staminate, or Hermaphrodite. — Large Early Scarlet, Walker's Seedling, Iowa, 

 Boston Pine, and Genesee. All these may be grown successfully for market, and are 

 good without being first rate in flavor. We think much more of Walker's Seedling 

 now than we did last season. It is very hardy, and a great bearer. It appears to be 

 a seedling from the Black Prince. The Boston Pine is the most uncertain on the 

 whole list ; without good soil and culture, it fails entirely. 



Beside the above list, we would recommend to amateurs, who are willing to bestow 

 thorough cultivation and care on their plants, the British Queen, which, when well 

 grown, surpasses in size, beauty, and excellence, any we have named. The Bicton 

 Pine — a large and beautiful white variety, which ripens late. We have had a fine 

 crop of it this season, although our plants being set last year were seriously injured 

 last winter. Like all the foreign sorts, it needs protection, and a deep, rich soil, with 

 abundant moisture. The Wood Strawberries — red and white — bear most profusely 

 in all places, and last a long time; beside, they part freely from the calyx, and are 

 therefore easily and rapidly picked, and their flavor is rich and agreeable to most 

 people. In addition to these we must mention the Bush Alpine (having no runners) 

 — perpetual bearers, if kept liberally supplied with moisture. They deserve much 

 more extensive cultivation than they now receive. With their assistance, we may 

 enjoy Strawberries not one month only, but four months. 



GARDENING GOSSIP FROM ENGLAND. 



BY THOS. EIVEPvS, SAWBEIDGEWOETH, ENGLAND. 



I. ALWAYS read the pleasant pages of your Horticulturist with much satisfaction, and 

 have often thought I would constitute myself your English correspondent ; not that I 

 can give you much news, unless it is about our well-known English subject, the 

 weather, still, as I fully believe there are many of your readers still interested in the 

 " old country," I will occasionally, with permission, give you a little gossip. 



Our spring commenced this year toward the end of February, and all through 

 March and April the weather was bright, sunny, and delightful — quite a poet's 

 spring. On the 25th of the latter month, a sudden severe frost paid us a visit ; the 

 thermometer in all the counties around London descended to 24° and 25'* ; and all 

 was desolate. The Pears and Plums had set a prodigious crop of fruit — never was 

 anything seen like it — showing how favorable bright, cold, dry weather is for the 

 blossoming and setting of fruit, — for previous to this severe frost the nights had been 

 cold, with two, three, and four degrees of frost, but they were dry and dewless. The 

 spring had been so fine and sunny, that Fig trees, Oaks, and many other late-leafing 

 trees, were full of young foliage. So much were they injured and retarded by the 



