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REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Strawberry Report, read before the Cincinnati Hor- 

 ticultural Society, August, 1847, and ordered to be pub- 

 lished. Pamphlet, 8vo. 14 pp. Cincinnati, 1848. 



If there is any one subject with which our readers have 

 been surfeited, it is the vexed strawberry question ; and we 

 are not sure but all of them would be glad were we to devote 

 no more room to its consideration. So absurd are the notions 

 of some writers, that we certainly do not deem them worthy 

 of further attention. But, in the present instance, we have the 

 deliberate report of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society upon 

 this matter ; and, if we did not think it desirable to enter at 

 length into a review of the report, respect for so honorable a 

 body would not allow us to pass by it in silence, especially as 

 we are personally concerned in the question. 



It is almost unnecessary for us to repeat that we have ever 

 felt a great degree of interest in the cultivation of the straw- 

 berry : for more than twenty years, we have given this fruit 

 more attention than we have bestowed upon any other, and, 

 during that period, every variety of foreign or native growth, 

 having any reputation, has been cultivated and examined 

 under our own eye ; with such experience, we flatter ourselves 

 that we can speak with nearly as much confidence as any of 

 the members of the committee, who drew up the report, and 

 probably with more than some of them. Without, however, 

 arrogating to ourselves an undue share of information, we 

 proceed to as brief a notice of the report as its importance will 

 admit of. 



Our correspondent, Mr. Ernst, was chairman of the Com- 

 mittee, having associated with him Messrs. Geo. Graham, 

 S. S. Jackson, John Lea, N. Shaler, S. Mosher, and I. A. 

 Warder : 



The Committee to whom was referred the investigation of the Sexual 

 Characters of the Strawberry, beg leave to report : — 



That they have endeavored to discharge, in the most thorough manner, 

 the duty imposed upon them, by investigating, with note-book in hand, the 

 condition of various kinds of Strawberries, at the different stages of their 

 progress, from the blossom to the ripened fruit, so as to observe any pe- 



