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besides, the best now at our command, I mean vre of the great public, for I believe there 

 are some dealers who possess the art of preserving strawberries, and of course less deli- 

 cate fruit, with the fresh flavor and beauty — and if we think it worthy commendation and 

 premiums to originate a valuable kind in any variety of fiuit or vegetables, would it not 

 be worth while to offer a premium of corresponding value for the method of preserving 

 the fruit of a week or a month, for enjoyment during the whole year, in its original deli- 

 ciousness. If the secret could not be purchased at a reasonable rate of its present pos- 

 sessors, would not a premium of one or five hundred dollars encourage a competent and 

 practical chemist (a spice of horticultural furor would be no disqualification for the task) 

 to attempt its discovery. The " chicken in every subject's pot" would fade forever before 

 strawberries at Christmas, without hot-bed or furnace, or the "price of a Knight's ran- 

 som." Yours, &c. H. 



Dayton, O. 



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There are few persons, even among our most experienced horticulturists, on this side 

 of the Atlantic, who know to what perfection floriculture is canied in some parts of Eu- 

 rope, where certain plants are made the object of especial attention and admiration. Every 

 one has heard of the Tulip and Hyacinth cultures of Holland, and the Rose culture of 

 France, but no where are the entire perfections of floriculture carried to so high a pitch, 

 at the present moment, 

 as in Great Britain. In 

 the first place, we must 

 remember that gardening 

 is the passion of many 

 of the nobles and persons 

 of the largest wealth in 

 that kingdom;* in the 

 second place that the gar- 

 deners are a highly intel- 

 ligent reading class; in 

 the third place that labor 

 is comparatively cheap, 

 and lastly that the pr-izcs 

 given at the great horti- 

 cultural fetes have bro't 

 all the best horticultural 

 talent into a wide field 

 of competition. 



The result of these va- 

 rious circumstances has 



been to make the two Gardema Stanleyana. 



great horticultural fetes of England — those of the Horticultural Society and the Royal 

 Botanic Society — the most wonderful sights, to a lover of horticultural skill, that the 



Lawrence, the wife of an eminent physician near London, who is one of the most successful competitors at 

 reat shows, is said to spend $30,000 a year on her gardens, 



