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73. Hautbois. — This ancient European species is remarkable for the musk flavor of 

 its fruit, and for the barrenness of its seminal varieties. The Prolific and Large 

 Flat Hautbois produce tolerable crops. The Green Hautbois is more an object of 

 curiosity. 



The light English hermaphrodite varieties from No. 63 to Vl, commencing with 

 the Bicton Pine, I do not think worthy of culture, except by such fancy amateurs as 

 are willing to waste much time and culture for small returns. Very many persons 

 have never seen a full crop of strawberries as produced by pistillate plants, and 

 therefore think much of a partial one. They should cultivate some of the pistillates 

 noted as " very productive," and then decide understandingly. I have passed over 

 the English Wood and Aljnne Strawberries, as they are so well known to every 

 cultivator. 



The following varieties are of little comparative value on account of their unpro- 

 ductiveness, or of the inferior quality of their fruit, and have consequently been 

 superseded, as well as forty other varieties as published in our catalogues : 



Aberdeen Beehive, 

 Alice Maud, (Princess,) 

 Black Prince,* 

 Buist's Prize, 

 Burr'? Seedling, 

 Burr's Late Prolific, 

 Burr'p Mammoth, 

 Burr's Profusion, 

 Burr's Scioto, 

 Cremont Perpetual, 

 Cushiasr, 



Downton, 

 Duke of Kent, 

 Dundee, (synonym,) 

 Fay's Seedling:, 

 Frencli Cucumber, 

 Keen's Seedling, 

 Knevett's Pine, 

 Lord Spencer, 

 Myatt's Eliza, 

 Myatt's Deptford Pine, 

 Necked, Pine, (Ohio,) 



Old Pine, 



Prince Albert, 



Prince of Orleans, 



Richardson's Early, 



Richardson's Late, 



Richardson's Cambridge, 



Roseberry, 



Royal Pine, 



Royal Scarlet, 



Swainstone, 



Willej, or Wniey's Seedling. 



A SMALL SELECT ASSORTMENT. — AVhcu considering the characters of so great a 

 number of varieties, each of which is valuable for some property or other, and all of 

 which constitute a selection from the mass that have for years been passing in review, 

 it is difficult to designate so small a number as six varieties that shall combine all we 

 desire. However, I will venture so far as to select six for market, and six for a family 

 garden, such as I would prefer, if confined absolutely to that small number : 



Six varieties for market — 1. Le Baron — productiveness, and excellent flavor. 2. 

 McAvoi/s Superior — productiveness, beauty and flavor. 3. Cornucopia — productive- 

 ness, beauty and flavor. 4. Triumph — Earliness, beauty and productiveness, o. 

 Hovey's Seedling — great size and productiveness. G. Primate — productiveness, 

 beauty and firmness. 



Six varieties for a fomily garden. — No. 1, 2 and 3 of the preceding list. 4. Super- 

 lative — productiveness, flavor and color. 5. Coronation — size, beauty and flavor. 

 6. Sylphide — size, beauty and flavor. 



I have purposely omitted Prince's Climax and the Imperial Scarlet, as they are 

 not procurable, not having yot been offered for sale. 



* The Black Pn'nee, although it has been extolled, is nevertheless a shy bearer, often insipid in flavor, makes but 

 few runners, and is subject to die out 



