EDITOR'S TABLE. 



A few -weeks ago Mr. Laweence answered my minute inqniries on the subject as follows : 



" 1st. The runners hear the same season they strike. 



" 2d. It is the same identical plant which bears fruit so fine and large in January, and 

 which continues to bear a constant crop until the July following. Weak plants are shy 

 bearers at all times. I plant none but the strongest plants (runners)-; the weaker ones I 

 neither use nor dispose of until such time as they are fit to set out. I am disposing of my 

 seedlings so rapidly that it is doubtful whether I can supply the demand." 



Mr. L., iu a previous letter, informed me he had sold 20,000 plants. I consider Mr. L.'s 

 suggestions, in regard to the cultivation of the strawberry, valuable for our soils and climate. 

 I am no more disposed to enrich our soils for the strawberry, with ordinary manures, than 

 Mr. L. It should be remembered that our seasons are of different length than the seasons 

 at iTew Orleans. My Crescent Seedlings are very strong and vigorous, and I have already 

 forwarded to B. M. Watsox, Plymouth, Mass., more than 250 plants, from the avails of 

 eight feeble runners that were scarcely alive when sef out in my garden on the 28th of May 

 last. This fact indicates a vigorous plant, and I shall look with interest for its habit of 

 bearing, next July and xVugust. E. G. Pardee. — Geneva^ J^. Y. 



[We expressed an opinion, some time ago, in the Genesee Farmer^ that this strawberry 

 might disappoint those who expected it would be a perpetual bearer in the north. We 

 did this without doubting in the least the correctness of the statements made by Mr. Law- 

 EEXCE, whom we beUeve to be an honorable man, or'^y Mr. Pardee, whom we know to 

 be in every respect, a gentleman worthy of confidence. Our doubts arose from the fact 

 that in the south, in such a climate as Xew Orleans, where strawberries blossom and bear 

 in January, it requires no great art to make any variety bear for several months, because, 

 as Ml'. Lawee^tce says, "the runners bear the same season they strike." But we are 

 informed that tlie same identical plants of the Crescent continue to bear for seven months. 

 This is the point we wished to get at, as it gives us some hope of obtaining successive crops 

 in the same season here. The question will be settled during the coming season. Crernome 

 perpetual., that attracted some attention in Europe a year or two ago, proves not perpetual. 

 Similar discoveries at various times have proved deceptive. — Ed.] 



Summer PEiiNiKa of Hardy Grapes. — ^You would oblige a subscriber by giving, in yo.ur 

 journal, some instruction in the management of hardy grape vines : particularly summer 

 pruning. In your '•''Fruit Garden^'''' you du-ect that the fruit branch be pinched off at the 

 second eye beyond the fruit ; but do not say at what period of the year this ought to be 

 done. Some writers direct the fruit branch to be stopped when the fruit is half grown. 

 At this stage, many branches of the Catawha grape have extended six to eight feet — too 

 late to stop with any beneficial results. Would it be safe to stop the shoot as soon as the 

 grapes form ? If not, at what period of growth ought the br^anches to be stopped ? 



In the same work you recommend the spur system of pruning, and say little of the 

 renewal system. My objection to the spur system in open culture, is the difficulty in keep- 

 ing the vine clothed with fruit branches from the base to the top of the trellis, which may 

 be done by always fruiting on new wood and cutting out, at the spring pruning, all wood 

 which has borne fruit. Under this system, the vines appear clean and vigorous, produce 

 fine fruit without so much danger of being over-cropped, and may be confined to a small 

 for years, 

 best mode of spur pruning I have seen practiced, is to prune to a strong full 



