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wiil), then it caiuiot fail to occupy as prominent a position among strawberries as its 

 godfather, our noble president, so deservedly occupies amongst horticulturists. In 

 another year we will hear more from it, as it is being largely planted in New Jersey, 

 Missouri, Kentucky and other States for market purposes. 



The actual yield with me of 200 feet on the matted row plan, without winter cover- 

 ing as manure, was two bushels and twelve quarts of such berries as I exhibited here 

 in Zanesville, and other localities, without counting what was taken off by visitors. 



To show the relative value of strawberries in market, I may mention that the fol- 

 lowing varieties ranged, on the same day, in Cincinnati, at 



Fifty cents for Jucunda. 



Forty cents for Triomphe de Gand and Seth Boyden. 



Thirty to thirty-five cents for Kentucky and Agriculturist. 



Twenty cents for Chas. Downing. 



Ten to fifteen cents for Wilson's Albany. 



Towards the end of the strawberry season raspberries commence to ripen, and if 

 the most hardy and productive kinds are selected, an abundance of delicious fruit 

 will be on hand. Grrowers seem to think the Black-cap more profitable than either 

 the Purple or Antwerp family ; with litttle or no attention, this may be true, but 

 when the latter are raised in hills, the number of canes limited to three or four, the 

 soil kept well worked, or better still, mulched, the suckers hoed off, the yield of both 

 is about the same, and the difference in price about double. Mr. Wm. Parry, of 

 New Jersey, gives the average yield of all the different kinds of raspberries he has 

 cultivated for the last ten years, at 2,000 quarts per acre, and the average price at 

 twenty-three cents per quart ; this shows that red berries largely predominate, as ten 

 cents would have been nearer the mark for black raspberries. 



Black-caps should be planted three or four feet by seven, the Philadelphia about 

 the same, but Antwerps will do better five by five feet, so as to use the cultivator 

 both ways, which will keep the suckers down. 



[to be continued.] 



A New Seedling Potato. 



IN the fall of 1871, I received from E. S. Brownell, of Essex Junction, Vermont, 

 seedling potatoes of three different kinds, one of which I have tested under very 

 unfavorable circumstances, and find it so good that I can but hope it may be further 

 tried the coming season, and then offered to the public, should it prove worthy. The 

 name he has given it, is, " Beauty of Vermont." He writes me it was from seed of 

 the Early Rose, in 1870. I would describe the potato as of medium to large in size ; 

 color of skin very much like its parent, the Early Rose ; flesh a light straw color ; 

 eyes small and few ; shape oval flattened, and roundish, varying somewhat like the 

 Early Rose; stem set in shallow cavity ; smooth and fair. Quality: cooks mealy, 

 evenly through, without hard or watery core, and as good, if not a little better, than 

 the best for the table ; no unpleasant flavor is left in the mouth when eaten, but a 

 desire for more ; one of the most productive varieties, healthy and strong, ripening 

 about a week later than the Early Rose. On the whole, a most promising variety. 

 Westborough, Mass. W. H. Whiter 



