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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



a detestation of the evil and false, our 

 gardens will show. And so tlie one 

 i-eacts npon the other : as we exercise 

 onr taste for the beautiful and our love 

 of the good in the careful cultivation 

 of the garden, and thus bring ourselves 

 through these creations of Infinite Love 

 into communion with Him who is the 

 source of all that is good and truly 

 beautiful, shall we be changed into the 

 same image, and by means of this com- 

 munion become ourselves good and 

 therefore beautiful. 



MEETING OF THE MISSISSIPPI VAL- 

 LEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



{Continned from page 172.) 



At the evening session of Thursday, 

 Feb. 22nd, Mr. O. B. Galusha, Presi- 

 dent of the Illinois State Horticultural 

 Society, read a paper on the question, 

 " la there a better market strawberry 

 than the Wilson 1" After listening at- 

 tentively to his paper from beginning 

 to end, we were no wiser than when he 

 began, and concluded that he had fully 

 illustrated his own paper by the inci- 

 dent he narrated at the opening, saying 

 that he was in the predicament of the 

 German Magistrate who after hearing 

 one side of a case said to the counsel, 

 " Yell, you be right, anyhow ;" but 

 after hearing the counsel for the other 

 side, said, *' Veil, you be right too " ; 

 so I dismiss the case, and charge the 

 constable with the costs for bringing such 

 a case into court." President Earle in- 

 troduced to the meeting, upon the con- 

 clusion of Mr. Galusha's paper, Profes- 

 sor S. A. Forbes, Illinois State Ento- 

 mologist, who read an exhaustive paper 

 upon "Insects affecting the strawberry." 

 VVe shall not attempt even a synopsis 

 of this truly valuable and instructive 

 paper. Those of our readei*s who wish 

 to pursue this subject, can procure a 



copy of the Report of this Society by 

 sending one dollar to the Secretary, 

 W. H. Ragan, Esq., Lafayette, Indiana, 

 in which they will find Professor 

 Forbes paper in full, and very complete- 

 ly illustrated with cuts of most of the 

 insects. This paper was followed by 

 one from Mr. A. D. Webb, of Ken- 

 tucky, the originator of the Longfellow 

 and Warren strawberries, upon "The 

 best strawberries for home use and for 

 market." With an experience of 

 twenty-five years, he names for honre 

 use in his locality, Cumberland 

 Triumph, Warren, Longfellow, Mon- 

 arch, Charles Downing, Mount Ver- 

 non and Sharpless. These have been 

 selected by him after a thorough test 

 through a series of years, (except th« 

 Mt. Vernon, which is of but recent in- 

 troduction,) embracing unfavorable as 

 well as favorable seasons, with an eye 

 especially to hardiness and vigor of 

 plant and reliable bearing, save that in 

 the case of the Sharpless he has found 

 it easily injured by frost and, in a wet 

 season, liable to rot. Nevertheless, he 

 would advise it be planted in every 

 family collection and trust to Provi- 

 dence for deliverance from frost and 

 rot. For near market he said he would 

 add to his family list the Crescent, and 

 for distant market would plant Wilson 

 and Glendale. The Wilson, he said, 

 has outranked all others as a shipjxjr, 

 has proved nearer a success everywhere 

 than perhaps any other, and has been 

 and is yet more extensively grown for 

 market than any other. Glendale has 

 acquired some reputation as a shipper, 

 seems to succeed wherever tried, is a 

 late variety, of large size, and makes a 

 good show on the fruit stands when 

 free from dirt. When dirty it is hard 

 looking, but will wash almost as well 

 as Irish potatoes. 



The remainder of the evening wa,s 

 occupied with discussions upon manur- 

 ing and watering strawberries and the 



