APPENDIX. 107 
And on the 11th November, 1852, he replies to my 
inquiries as follows: 
‘1st. The runners bear the same season they strike. 
“2d. It is the same zdentical plant bears fruit so fine 
and large in January, and which continues to bear, 
until July following, a constant crop. Weak plants are 
shy bearers at all times. I plant none but the strongest 
plants, (runners;) the weaker ones I neither use nor 
dispose of until they are fit for setting out.” 
In 1858, he again writes, “that they never were - 
doing so well in all the South below Charleston, S. C.” 
There will be found many valuable suggestions in 
this correspondence with Mr. Lawrence, which will 
tend to throw light on the great question. 
We are inclined to think that the superior location 
of Mr. Lawrence—the low bottom lands near New 
Orleans—and his superior cultivation, have more to do 
with the character of the Crescent Seedling than he 
supposes. However, it is a good plant to experiment 
with, and they are now easily obtained in the State of 
New York, or of B. M. Watson, Plymouth, Massachu- 
setts. 
APPENDIX C. 
(From Downing's Horticulturist.) 
TWO EXPERIMENTS MADE TO TEST MR. LONGWORTH’S 
STRAWBERRY THEORY. 
TAKING Hovey’s Seedling as a subject, I procured a 
bell-glass, and placed it over an entire plant which had 
