STRAWBERRIES. 



I was much gratified also by a visit to Mr. Charles Reemelin, formerly a member 

 of the State Legislature, and quite prominent as a politician. The more quiet 

 pleasures of his farm and vineyard have, however, of late years, won him from his 

 public life, and he is enthusiastic and energetic in his cultivation of the grape. 

 He adds to an extended European observation, an intelligent American experience, 

 and in his enthusiasm has actually prepared a Manual of the Grape, a work much 

 needed, giving in its minutest detail the instruction necessary for beginners in vine- 

 yard culture. 



This work will soon be issued by C. M. Saxton & Co. of New York, whose 

 extensive list of agricultural works your readers are already acquainted with. 



Throughout the country there is no new branch of agriculture receiving more 

 general attention than Grape culture, and at the present rate of increase, the next 

 decade will find our production of wine, a very considerable item in our agricultural 

 statistics. 



It is an interesting question how this will affect our population viewed in 

 relation to the subject of intemperance. I would not attempt to decide this 

 question dictatorially, but it does seem to me that the manufacture of wine in all 

 its concomitants is a thing so utterly unlike the surroundings of those pests of 

 every neighborhood where they exist, the brewery and the distillery, with their 

 hoiTid stench and their bloated and filthy laborers, that the two things are in all 

 else as opposite. The occupation of a vinedresser, is one requiring a higher grade 

 of intellect than even the ordinary branches of farming, and all pertaining to 

 the vintage is chaste, joyous, and beautiful. Rarely a besotted vintner can be 

 found, and in the wine districts of Europe, there is not a tithe of the drunkenness 

 that prevails where the ''Worm of the Still" supplies without competition the 

 beverage of the people. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



BY P. BARRY, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 



A note or two concerning this season's experience here with some of the more 

 recent varieties of strawberries, may be of some interest. 



/Scott's Seedling, of which we had but a very small bed, and consequently a trial 

 not quite satisfactory, has not come fully up to its Boston reputation. It is large 

 and handsome, and very distinctly characterized by its long conical form ; crop 

 moderate, and flavor rather indifterent. I hope to report more favorably of it next 

 season. 



Longwortli s Prolific and McAvoi/'s Superior, of which we had good beds, in 

 fine order for a fair trial, have both turned out poorly — the crop has been light, 

 and the berries of both imperfectly tilled out. This by the bye, is a general failing 

 of all the Cincinnati varieties. Whilst I still rank these two varieties as good, I 

 dedly prefer, for our section. Burr's new Pine and Walke7''s Seedling. 

 variety is of undoubted excellence and value, as a staminate. 



