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is bearing most abundantly, and, where they have sufficient 

 room, they are literally covered with trusses of magnificent 

 fruit. Some plants, I have no hesitation in saying, will yield 

 a pint of fruit each. 



My crop of Hovey's Seedling surpasses any thing I ever 

 had any conception of. I can now pick from three to four 

 hundred quarts per day, and my patches are comparatively 

 small. The demand here is limited, and will not justify a 

 very extensive cultivation. 



I have now been cultivating the strawberry for twenty 

 years, and have spent some hundreds of dollars in procuring 

 all the finest varieties as they were announced. I have now 

 come to the conclusion that some four or five are all that are 

 necessary for any purpose. I have thrown out at least fifty 

 varieties which have been extolled in their day. Hovey's 

 Seedling I consider incomparably superior to any and all oth- 

 ers I have ever tried, or ever expect to try. It combines 

 every essential to render it desirable. It is fine in flavor, 

 magnificent in size, of beautiful color, and extraordinarily 

 productive. It is the very ne plus idtra of all the varieties of 

 this delicious fruit. In haste, with great respect, yours, &c. 



Alexandria.^ Va., May, 1848. 



Some Remarks on Bayne's Extra Early, and other straw- 

 berries, will be found in another page, written previously to the 

 above ; it gives us the greatest pleasure to publish a communi- 

 cation from Dr. Bayne, who has probably given more atten- 

 tion to this fruit than any amateur cultivator in the country, 

 and has himself raised several strawberries. His opinion 

 stands in bold contrast with that expressed by the Committee 

 of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. — Ed. 



Art. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of New and 

 Beautiful Plants fj,gured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 Descriptions of those recently inti'oduced to, or originated in, 

 American Gardens. 



Beautifid Calceolarias. — Dear Sir, — I take the liberty of 

 sending a few blooms of my seedling calceolarias, for your 



