382 Queries and Ansivers. 



general views on "The Strawberry Question," in the American Agricul- 

 turist, and Flushing Journal. That question has been more mystified by 

 false European plaudits and descriptions, than by any other circumstance 

 whatever. In each succeeding communication, I have stripped it of some 

 of its falsities. I have continued the subject in the August number of the 

 Horticulturist, and I shall conclude by a disquisition explanatory of all the 

 apparent mysteries which have seemed to entwine the subject, and with 

 the lull results of my long and critical investigations of the great " Straw- 

 berry question." — Yours, <SfC., William R. Prince, Flushing, July, 1848. 



P. S. — I shall discuss the merits of American grapes in a subsequent 

 communication, when I shall touch upon certain hybridized varieties with 

 divided leaves, which were announced a few years since. 



[Had Mr. Prince's name appeared in full with the first notice of the Bee- 

 hive, we should not have allowed " A Subscriber's" communication to have 

 appeared in our pages, as it is a rule we have adopted not to allow an anony- 

 mous writer, (even though we have his name,) to attack a correspondent. 

 We therefore insert Mr. Prince's communication, and would here state, 

 that, as such a personal controversy is not very edifying or instructive to 

 our readers, we shall not allow any further discussion to appear on either 

 side. If the parties wish to use our columns, it must be in communications 

 free from personal allusions, and upon some subject of interest to our 

 readers. 



We would, however, beg to make a single remark, and that is, that Mr. 

 Prince is wrong in saying all staminate European varieties have proved 

 " utterly worthless." Keen's seedling is an immense bearer, and its cul- 

 tivation has not been given up because it was not productive, but from the 

 fact that the plant was too tender for our severe winters, as well as our hot 

 summers, and hence to assert, that the Aberdeen Beehive would prove 

 worthless, merely because it was staminate, was pronouncing judgment be- 

 fore it had had a trial. If Keen's Seedling had all the hardy qualities of our 

 seedling, it would, to this day, find a place in every collection of straw- 

 berries.— £</.] 



Art. V. Queries and Answers. 



Special Manures for Trees. — A Cultivator. We shall have some- 

 thing to say upon this subject ere long, for it is deluding too many inexpe- 

 rienced cultivators. Practical men know too much to be taken in by such 

 one ideas. We expect soon to hear that good stable manure and loam are 

 quite worthless things, and ashes and peat the only articles worth having. 

 You will uniloubtedly fully agree with us, that there is too much quackery 

 carried on under the name of scientific gardening. 



Grapes. — A. There is no doubt the four kinds arc quite distinct, not- 

 withstanding Mr. Thompson makes some of them synonymous. The Wil- 

 mot's Black Hamburgh is decidedly so, and the Victoria is certainly differ- 



