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REMARKS ON NEW STRAWBERRIES. 



through its noble racemes of blossoms, 

 fringing the edge of the roof, or surround- 

 ing the pillars along the front, would con- 

 stitute the perfection of a foreground to a 

 scene, either of rural beauty, or of enriched 

 and elaborate cultivation. 



The Wistaria is quite as hardy as the 

 Laburnum. [Much more hardy. En.] We 

 have spoken of it fully as it deserves, and 

 hope enough has been said to increase its 

 cultivation, and to give it that diversity, so 

 essential to the production and maintenance 

 of interest. For our " 27e?«s," we are in- 

 debted to the suggestions of a writer of 

 known skill and experience. 



Wm. W. Valk, m. d. 



N. B. We have a small plant of the 

 " Wistaria rosea,^' sent us from Belgium, 

 and represented as handsomer than the si- 

 nensis. Yesterday we saw the fruit of the 

 " Grosielle cerise,^^ or Cherry Currant ; it 

 is fully equal to our highest anticipations, 

 and the largest of all currants known. 

 They measured over an inch in circum- 

 ference. W. W. V. 



Remarks. — Our correspondent has scarce" 

 ly done justice to the merits of this — cer- 

 tainly one of the loveliest of all climbing 

 plants. We have cultivated it in various 

 situations for ten or twelve years, and find 

 it perfectly hardy in all exposures. A sin- 

 gle plant will cover hundreds of square 

 feet, if simply trained upon trellis, wall, or 

 building; or it may, by shortening the 

 branches, be kept within the limits of a 

 single upright pole, or the columns of a 

 piazza. The months of April and May 

 deck it with the most wonderful profusion 

 of long clusters of blossoms ; (a gentleman 

 compared the grand specimen in Thoe- 

 burn's garden, at Astoria, when in full 

 bloom this year, to a " floral cataract of 

 Niagara ;") and old plants are more or less 

 in bloom from May till Novembei". 



It is, in short, a climber for all places, — 

 whether cottage, farm-house, or villa ; and 

 we hope, before long, to see it planted 

 wherever there is the least refinement pos- 

 sessed by the inmates of country houses 

 from Maine to Louisiana. Ed. 



REMARKS ON NET77 STRAWBERRIES. 



BY G. W. HUNTSMAN, FLUSHING, L. I. 



Dear Sir — In my last communication, I 

 promised to make some further remarks 

 upon new varieties of strawberries. This 

 promise I will now endeavor to redeem, in 

 part, at least. 



Of the many new varieties lately intro- 

 duced, I have noticed the following, though 

 not, in all cases, under the most favorable 

 circumstances for judging of their merits: 



Black Prince, 



Burr's New Pine, 



Crimson Cone, 



Profuse Scarlet, (Prince's,) 



Bc):-ton Pine. 



Iowa, 



Cushing, 

 Bishop's Globe, 

 Abyssinian Prince, 

 Lizzie Randolph, 

 Taylor's Seedling. 



Eberlein, 



Charlotte, (Prince's,) 

 Primate, do. 



Priuiordian, do. 

 Jenney's Seedling. 



President, 

 Buist's Prize, 

 Burr's Seedling, 



