62 SELECTION OF! VARIETIES. 
yet tried it. In Boston it is spoken well of. A friend 
assures us it is superior to the Bicton Pine. 
PROLIFIC HAUTBOY. 
Prolific certainly of runners, so as greatly to injure 
its value, if it had no other defect ; is a very vigorous 
plant, producing long, oval, purplish, dingy berries of 
a rich but very peculiar flavor, agreeable to some, but 
the reverse to others. It is staminate, but hardly 
desirable. 
We might continue this list, and enumerate full 
one hundred other varieties which we have had an 
opportunity of personally testing; but we cannot 
name any variety possessing any superior quality, not 
possessed in an equal or larger degree by some of the 
best of those we have named; in fact, quite a number 
of the varieties we have noticed are not equal to many 
other varieties we might name, of our own seedlings 
and others; and we have only referred to them because 
they are popular in many parts of the country, and 
supposed there to be a first-class fruit. 
Many of our horticultural friends and nurserymen 
may be disappointed that we have not referred more 
extensively to their favorites; in answer we say, we 
we do not suppose them superior to some of those 
described. If they are, they will soon be extensively 
