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great many new varieties through its seeds, but I have 
never yet found the character of a plant to change by 
culture—a pistillate will be pistillate still, no matter 
how cultivated. As to varieties, for general culture, I 
do not believe there is any thing to compare with 
Hovey’s Seedling, when impregnated by a constant 
~ bloomer. I have a new seedling, from the Ross Phee- 
nix, and a wild strawberry, of Alabama, that, for ‘size, 
beauty, and lusciousness, surpasses Hovey’s as much 
as Hovey’s does the Harly Scarlet: shall not be able 
to test its producing qualities until 1855. The past 
season has developed in a wonderful degree the pro- 
priety of the principles of my culture. For near two 
months it has scarcely rained; gardens and flower- 
yards have been entirely destroyed, and the staple 
crops have suffered materially. My strawberry plants 
have made no runners, but look fresh and green—the 
beds being in the best possible order for next spring’s 
bearing. Had my beds been highly manured, and cul- 
tivated in the common way, I should not have had a 
living plant left. There is a vast difference in the 
nature and habits of plants to withstand heat. Richard 
Peters, Esq., of Atlanta, Ga., last year sent me some 
hundreds of a staminate strawberry, supposed to be a 
native of Georgia, which he thought would answer as 
a better impregnator to the Hoveys than the Early 
Searlet. I planted them among the Hoveys; they 
grew and bore finely this spring, but the drought has 
killed every plant, whilst the Hoveys are unscathed. 
Should the fall prove wet and mild, my vines, from 
not having made runners, will be in full fruit. In the 
forthcoming Patent Office Report, T have given my 
