Notes on some New Varieties* of Fruits. 147 



the size and beauty of the specimens of it exliibited, has pro- 

 duced a change of sentiment in its favor, and it bids fair now 

 to be considered as worthy of a very extended cuUivation. 

 To what this superiority, for the past year, should be at- 

 tributed cannot of course be positively asserted ; but to pre- 

 sume that it may have arisen from the circumstance that this 

 variety having been introduced some years since, the trees 

 have become tlioroughly acclimated, or have reached a state 

 approaching maturity, would not, perhaps, in the absence of 

 facts leading to a diiferent conclusion, be a very unreasonable 

 supposition. 



With these introductory observations, a description, for the 

 most part necessarily brief and imperfect, of such new va- 

 rieties as have come under the writer's observation, will now 

 be attempted. The newer fruits, examined during the past 

 year, have consisted mainly of strawberries, cherries, apples, 

 and pears ; the different varieties of the last named constitut- 

 ing, of such, by far the largest proportion. Beginning, then, 

 taking these fruits in the order of their ripening, with the 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Mr. Lemuel Capen raised and exhibited the past season a 

 Seedling Strawberry, with berries of a large size, some of 

 which were of a cockscomb shape, while others were of a 

 conical form, and in color of a dark red, but of whose flavor, 

 bearing properties and other qualities, no information is pos- 

 sessed. And Mr. Isaac Fay, a seedling, named by him 



Jenny Lind. This last named variety was a handsome 

 berry, very solid, of good size and good flavor, the plant pro- 

 ducing it being a staminate. Mr. Fay entertains very favor- 

 able impressions with respect to its proving a valuable acqui- 

 sition. Further examinations have tended to confirm the 

 opinion heretofore entertained and expressed respecting the 



Seedling Strawberry of Mr. Samuel Walker, the late Presi- 

 dent of the Horticultural Society. In the grounds, and under 

 the cultivation of that gentleman, it is certainly, for a stami- 

 nate variety, an abundant bearer, and, for fine flavor, stands 

 well, even when tested by the Boston Pine, and other ac- 



