450 Pomological Gossip. 



sey, Andrews, Beurre d'Anjou, Van Mons Leon le Clerc, 

 Colmar d'Aremberg, Gansell's Bergamot, Bezi de la Motte, 



From Hovey & Co., Flemish Beauty, Swan's Orange, 

 Doyenne Boussock, Marie Louise, Chaumontelle, Bartlett, 

 Beurre Bosc, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Columbia, Van Mons 

 Leon le Clerc, Duchess of Angouleme and Beurre d'Anjou. 



Great Crop of Strawberries. — We have so often chron- 

 icled accounts of the immense crops which have been pro- 

 duced from beds of our Seedling that we scarcely deem it 

 important to do so again ; but our friend Mr. C. Whiting, of 

 Boston, has just handed us the following, which is so very 

 remarkable that we make no further apology for giving it to 

 our readers : — 



"Mr. William Gore, of Freeport, Me., raised on a piece of 

 land eleven feet by forty-three, the past season, tlLree and a 

 quarte?' bushels of Hovey's Seedling strawberries. The bed 

 was six years old. The land on which these berries were 

 raised, when purchased by Mr. Gore, a few years since, was 

 considered almost worthless ; it bore weeds of an inferior 

 growth ; but under his peculiar care and cultivation it has 

 become very productive ; it was moist, dark sandy loam. 

 He dug deep ditches and filled with cobble stones, which 

 were covered with seaweed, then a top dressing of such 

 earth as he could obtain, with manure well incorporated by 

 deep ploughing. His garden vegetables and fruits' show 

 what may be done by a little care and attention. A few 

 summer potatoes reached our Faneuil Hall Market the past 

 season, raised by Mr. Gore, which were equal to any ever 

 brought here during winter. He has filled his ground with 

 choice fruit, and has lately purchased twelve acres adjoining, 

 though now in a very unproductive state." 



This is at the rate of nine thousand six hundred quarts 

 TO THE ACRE, Or about ouc quart from every four and a half 

 square feet of soil. A greater yield than this on so large a 

 piece of ground we think was never made ; and this too on 

 a bed six years old. If any one can beat it we should be 

 glad to record the name of the successful cultivator. 



