NOTES ON THE STRAWBERRY. 



to size or productiveness, and yet its flavor as a table berry, when fully ripe, is almost 

 unequalled; but in many respects this season, it has more resembled the Early Scarlet 

 than my other varieties. 



The Black Prince has borne largely with me, and a large portion of the fruit has been 

 very large, saj' three and three-fourths to four and a half inches, and is a very showy 

 fruit, but no previous season have we noticed it so defitient in high flavor. The plants 

 which had extraordinary cultivation, and were of such remarkable size^ were among those 

 the most deficient in flavor. 



The j^lica Maud has also borne well, and the fruit has been unusually large, but this 

 also has failed to be of high flavor. 



Jenny's Seedling has not quite met our expectations this season in productiveness, but 

 the fruit has been very large and good, and may redeem its character with us another sea- 

 son. 



The Hosebcrry is of fine flavor, and has borne well, though of medium size. I am quite 

 pleased with EUwanger So Barry's new seedlings, the Genesee, Monroe, and Climax 

 Scarlet. The plants are very vigorous, and promise a large supply of fine flavored fruit. 

 We shall give them a good chance for another season. Nearly or quite the same may be 

 said oi Richardso7i's Early, Late, and Cambridge, togthcrwith i\iQ Boston Pine, Crim- 

 son Cons, Royal Scarlet, and perhaps Swainstone Seedling and a number of others. 



From their good conduct the present season, I shall watch with more than usual inte- 

 rest, the development of some ten or a dozen of Prince's choicest new varieties from 

 Flushing, which I am testing for another season with care, for our soil and climate. 



I have had more of the New Pine than any other variety in bearing in my garden, and 

 the greater portion of my plants were transplanted on the 15th of July, 1850, and the ground 

 leveled and mulched immediately, with an inch or so of saw-dust and old tan-bark, since 

 which I have not had occasion to bestow any labor upon them, beyond an occasional wa- 

 tering when very dry, and the pulling of a very few weeds, and the result has been we 

 have gathered between three and four bushels of fine fruit in a succession of more than 

 four weeks daily abundant supply, from a spot of ground fifteen by forty-five feet, and 

 at the full cost of less than seventy-five cents per bushel. The New Pine was among the 

 first and last in the season of bearing. 



Unless I find other new varieties which I can take pleasure in giving a trial, I do not 

 expect, after next July, to find it desirable to retain more than a selection of some half 

 dozen kinds, out of the thirty-six now in my garden. 



A lady from New-Orleans, brought to this place some three or four years ago, two kinds 

 of French strawberries, which I will refer to. One is called the French Cucumber Straw- 

 berry, from its long and singular appearance, somewhat resembling the French Hautboy 

 in foliage and appearance, but probably will not be desirable to cultivate only as a curiosi- 

 ty. The other is called the Prince of Orleans — in color and aijpearance resembling the 

 Roseberry; not larger and not equal to that in flavor, but ajspears on a short trial to be a 

 very large bearer, but rather tender for a market fruit. 



We have also some seedlings of Burr's New Pine, fertilised with our best varieties, com- 

 ing forward. 



The large success of our citizens generally, in raising the strawberry the past season, 

 has greatly increased the cultivation in this vicinity, and the next season we hope to take 

 a more extended view of this fruit than ever before. R. G. P. 



Palmyra, July 4, 1851 



