APPENDIX. 115 
The Early Scarlet is raised to some extent; but 
four-fifths of all the strawberries sold in our mar- 
ket are the Necked Pine and Hudson; mostly the 
latter. Mr. Culbertson brings more strawberries to our 
market than any other person. ‘The greatest quantity 
he has brought in any single day was four thousand 
quarts; and not one of the kinds named in the Farmer 
and Mechanic among them. All were the Hudson. 
By properly understanding the true character of the 
plant, Mr. Culbertson has been able to gather nearly as 
many quarts in a single day as three Boston cultivators 
were able to do in a whole season. I saw an editorial 
article in a recent eastern horticultural paper, speaking 
in high terms of the Alpine strawberry, as raised by a 
Col. Stoddert, and its great produce, which yielded him, 
at 12} cents per quart, upwards of $1,600 to the acre. 
It is an indifferent fruit, and never yielded one-fourth 
the quantity. 
Can Hovey’s Seedling, or any other large-fruited 
pistillate strawberry, be impregnated by the Alpine 
Monthly? It is my impression that they are distinct 
species, and that it cannot be done. If it can, a cross 
might be produced that, with the size and flavor 
of the one, united the ever-bearing character of the 
other. There is a wild, ever-bearing variety in our 
State, that would cross with the Scarlet and Pine, and 
is the only kind I have ever seen worthy of the name 
of ever-bearing; for the Alpine, after the first crop, 
rarely produces much fruit through the season. Thirty 
years since, I met with a solitary strawberry plant on 
Mount Adams, then in bloom. I removed it to my 
garden, and the plant not only bloomed freely till frost, 
but all the runners threw out blossoms at the same 
