STRAWBERRIES AND GRAPES PLANTING. 



STRAWBERRIES AND GRAPES IN MISSOURI. 



BY H. M. MYERS, BOONVILLE. 



I SEE in the Augnst number of the Horticulturist some account of the Strawberry 

 crop of Cincinnati, Ohio, by Mr. Stoms. Permit me to give you an account of my 

 own; — I have one and one-fourth of an acre in Strawberries, and sold one hundred 

 and two bushels ; used in my family say ten bushels, making one hundred and twelve 

 bushels, at 15 cents per quart, 3537 60 ; about one-half my ground is in Hovey's, 

 the balance in the Necked Pine; Hovey's are the largest, and of course sell best; 

 the Pine much the finest flavored and most prolific. In regard to the sexualities of 

 the plants, not one plant could be found in my Pines but were full of perfect berries 

 and but few among the Hoveys, but not as a general thing more than from two to 

 four perfect berries to the stem; the Pines would have from six to twelve perfect 

 berries to the stem; (the largest of my Hoveys measured four to four and a half 

 inches in circumference.) 



We are also succeeding finely here with the Grape, the culture of which only 

 commenced in this county some five years since by the Germans, but now many 

 others are getting at it. I planted two acres five years since, mostly Catawbas and 

 a few Isabellas, but the Catawbas are a much surer crop than any others ; this year 

 I think I shall make one thousand gallons of wine from my two acres; the vines are 

 very full, and but very few have fallen off. Some vineyards in this county have 

 been troubled very much with the rot, others but little. The Germans have a Grape 

 that bids fair to do well here; they brought the slips from Germany. They are 

 earlier than the Catawba or Isabella, small but very compact bunches, now turning 

 red and black when ripe; make red wine, and are a fine table Grape, the last of this 

 month. Our Catawbas are fit for table use through September, and wine is made 

 from them from 15th September to 10th October. Isabellas ripen about the same 

 time. 



PLANTING. 



BY GEO. H. TAYLOR, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 



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It is pleasing to reflect that the great and good of all ages have been patrons of 

 arboriculture. One redeeming feature of the monkish orders was their charity to 

 the poor wayfarer : another, and of which the vestiges are yet apparent in the coun- 

 tries where those societies flourished, was their love of gardens and orchards. 

 Through these sometimes ascetic, now forgotten men, there is little doubt that much 

 of the improvement of our standard orchard fruits, such at least as it existed a cen 

 ago, originated and was preserved, in a state of society little adapted to 



