DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



This variety may have been imported by per- 

 sons in other sections, but all under that name 

 here, were obtained from John Slater, an 

 Englishman, and now a market gardener in the 

 vicinity of Alexandria, Va., who imported 

 them from England a few years ago, and dis- 

 seminated them amongst us. 



He cultivates the strawberry largely, for the 

 supply of Washington market, and prefers this 

 variety before any other, as with him it is more 

 productive than any he has cultivated. This 

 opinion is sustained by Dr. BAYNE,of the same 

 vicinity, who, by the bye, not only cultivates 

 fruit largely, but is an excellent judge of such 

 things. He not long since considered Hovey's 

 Seedling as the best variety for him, but now 

 acknowledges that the Princess Alice Maud is 

 the best market fruit, and he cultivates largely 

 for market; whether this character will be sus- 

 tained in all soils remains to be seen. The soil 

 of both Dr. Bayne and Mr. Slater's gardens 

 is a fine sandy loam, interspersed more or less 

 with rounded pebbles and gravel, similar to 

 much that is met with in the vicinity of tide 

 water rivers. The ground of the latter is but 

 a few feet above tide, while the former is, per- 

 haps, as high as 150 feet. 



This strawberry is a strong grower, and suc- 

 ceeds best in rows, say two feet apart ; the flow- 

 ers very large staminate, fruit conical, color 

 darker than Hovey's Seedling, and more glossy, 

 flavor more sprightly, and a more abundant 

 bearer. Yardley Taylor. Loudon co., Va., 

 8th mo., 9th. 



[Our correspondent is quite correct in his 

 account of the Alice Maud Strawberry — an 

 English variety of excellent qualities, well 

 known in this state also — the blossoms stami- 

 nate, and the flavor delicious. Dr. Hull did 

 not intend it to be understood that he suppos- 

 ed the pistillate strawberry described by him, to 

 be the Alice Maud — he only mentioned the 

 fact that it had been wrongly disseminated under 

 that name. Ed. 



Preserving Fruits and Vegetables. — I 

 observe in the June number of your paper, a 

 correspondent, L. of S. C. making inquiries 

 as to the best way of preserving /res/t for a 

 length of time, fruits and vegetables. He is 

 in all his preparations, except that instead 

 ing them in boiling water, he should 



put them in cold water, with a quick fire, and 

 just allow it to come to the boiling point, and 

 no more ; at the moment the water boils seal 

 up the cans hermetically. I will except corn, 

 which should boil two minutes, and should be 

 cut from the cob before putting in the cans. I 

 am a greater part of my time from home, and 

 cannot give much time to writing. Otherwise 

 I should have written more in detail about this 

 mode of preserving fresh fruits, vegetables, 

 &c. Very resp't yours, J. C. Wright. Scotts- 

 ville, .Albemarle county, Va. 



Culture of Achimenes. — What is the pro- 

 per manner of wintering Achimenes? Last 

 autumn, after the leaves had died down, I put 

 my pots away on a back shelf of the green- 

 house, in a warm part, out of the reach of 

 frost, and gave them no water all winter. When 

 I came to repot them in the spring, the tiny 

 bulbs or tubers had all disappeared, not one to 

 be found ■ this treatment is evidently wrong. 

 How must I proceed to winter these pretty 

 plants, in the event of procuring a fresh sup- 

 ply? Yours, &c. Fairymead. Canada 

 East. 



We suspect, from having seen such things 

 before, that your disappointment in not finding 

 the bulbs of the Achimenes where they should 

 have been, for the spring repotting, was owing 

 to the plants having been exposed to a slight 

 frost in the autumn before they were housed. 

 The bulbs are found very near the surface and 

 a single cold autumn night is sufiicient to de- 

 stroy them. Your manner of wintering them 

 is the correct one, and the disappearance of the 

 bulbs must be either owing to frost or mice. Ed. 



Peaches and Nectarines on one Tree. — 

 Sir: To verify the statements made to you the 

 last season, and which you were kind enough to 

 place in the columns of your Journal — having 

 reference to the peach and nectarine growing 

 upon the same stock, I yesterday visited the 

 tree, in the nursery grounds of Mr. Duncan 

 C. Wood, in this vicinity, and ascertained that 

 the statement was correct in every particular — 

 confirmed by another year of growth — peaches 

 and nectarines growing on the twin stems. I 

 examined the root, also, finding they came from 

 the same stone or pit, spoken of in that com- 

 munication. The peach given to Mr. Wood by 



