50 SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 
as to carry along the judges at our exhibitions; and the 
size under good cultivation always proves satisfactory. 
We have, in times past, been embarrassed by its 
failure in bearing, but we are inclined to think it was 
in a great measure owing to our want of knowledge of 
its habits, and consequently erroneous cultivation. It 
requires a great deal of water, or moist soil, and will 
not bear so rich soil as Boston Pine and many other 
kinds; and the simple reduction of the soil to the com- 
mon grade has sométimes changed the barren into pro- 
ductive plants. It originated in 1834. The vines are 
vigorous, leaves large in rich soil, rather ight green, 
and fruit-stalks are of good length. Fruit is very large, 
roundish-oval, conical ; color, rich scarlet ; seeds slightly 
imbedded; firm flesh; well adapted for market, and of 
medium season ; flowers pistillate. | 
As will be seen in Appendix, A, Mr. Peabody, of 
Columbus, Geo., has succeeded in making this variety 
ever-bearing. ; 
MONROE SCARLET. 
This variety has not been so extensively known or 
so largely tested as Hovey’s Seedling and Burr’s 
New Pine. It originated in Rochester by those enter- 
prising nurserymen, Messrs. Elwanger & Barry, and 
was first exhibited by them at the June meeting of the 
“Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Genesee,” 
we think in 1850, where we first saw it, and took a 
plant home with us. 
