EDITOR'S TABLE. 



Tlic specimens I eoiul j'ou arc Bohnars WasJihifffon, and you will observe upon some of them 

 tlic marks of that little infamous Turk, which are nicely healcil over, leaving the crescent to light 

 up those who may have doubts that tlioy are the production of a cureulio district. Syringe wel], 

 and although the fruit niaj^ be stung, it will come to perfection. 



I am glad to find that Mr. Stokes has also been successful in raising this most delicious fruit ; 

 and his idea of coloring the whitewash is a good one, as it docs away with the glaring eflfect given 

 by the lime. 



I have doubts of the practicability of using a rose upon the tin garden pump, as it will soon 

 stop up with particles of lime, and become useless. I prefer the lip which generally comes with 

 these pumps. Tiiis may be bent in such a manner as to flatten the stream as it passes out the 

 spout, and thus disperse it over the tree. I did not notice that any of the fruit withered or 

 turned yellow, as spoken of by Mr. Stokes — of course there were some, as is the case in the best 

 jilum districts, that decayed and fell from the trees, making room for those that are left to have 

 a chance to swell. 



I .\M a subscriber to your periodical. I reside in New Jersey, and do business in New York. 

 If the inclosed paper is correct, why can not we have strawberries in the same manner in our 

 locality as they have them in Columbus? Please notice this communication in the Horticulturist, 

 and oblige a true friend seeking information. A. F. B. 



"A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette thus describes a visit to the estate of Mr. Peabody, 

 an eminent horticulturist near Columbus, Georgia : 



'Mr Peabody has a very healthy location on a hill in the pine wood — over six hundred acres; 

 and when they went on it, thirteen years ago, not a tree had been cut. He cleared a space for 

 his house, and then moved in the next spring. He has proved the most successful cultivator of 

 several kinds of fruit, berries, and melons in this country. I saw one thousand hills of water- 

 melons, on which will bo ripe fruit by the 10th or 15th of June; he says he has frequently 

 picked them weighing fifty pounds. His great peculiarity with strawberries is the quantity ot 

 fruit, its size, and flavor, and the constant hearing of the vines ; always has plenty of fine berries 

 for six months — frequenty eight — and last season he had them every month in the year. Recol- 

 lect this is in the open air — in his open fields. I saw eight acres of strawberries; the vines are 

 very small, and covered (the ground literally looks red) with most delicious Hoveij berries. These 

 vines have been in just as full bearing since the 10th of March, and he says will continue until 

 the middle of September, and as much longer as frost keeps away, if he chooses to attend to 

 them. Mr. P. sends to this market from 150 to 200 quarts per day, and says he could pick double 

 the quantity if the market was larger.' " 



There are but two ways to have strawberries in constant bearing : one is, and the most 

 practicable, to plant the Monthly Alpine^ furnish them liberally with water in dry weather, 

 with an occasional application of liquid manure, and you can have fruit from June to Octo- 

 ber. Another way is, to have a stock of plants retarded by removing the blossom at the 

 usual season, and bring them forward when the first crop is passed. This requires the 

 exercise of much skill and a considerable amount of labor. "We think there is a mistake 

 in the above newspaper extract in regard to Hovey''s Seedling bearing from the 10th of 

 March until September. 



