STRAWBERRY. 103 



Victory. Sent out by Wm. S. Carpenter, of New York. 

 Large, light scarlet, soft and insipid. 



Ward's Favorite, (Dr. Ward.) Medium, round, dark 

 crimson, excellent flavor, but not sufficiently productive. 

 Pistillate. 



Walker. (Samuel Walker.) Small to medium, conical, 

 dark crimson, excellent flavor, not productive. 



FOREIGN VARIETIES. 



Evary year catalogues containing the names and de- 

 scriptions of new Strawberries are sent us from Europe, 

 and we are invited to purchase, being promised in return 

 for our money something better than any heretofore 

 known. If a hundredth part of the improvement claimed 

 had been realized from year to year, we would now have 

 Strawberries so much superior to those of ten years ago, 

 that not one of the kinds known at that time would be 

 in cultivation. But we regret that no such improvement 

 has been made; at least, if it was observable in the varie- 

 ties at home, they lost it all in their journey across the 

 Atlantic. 



Foreign kinds at home are, no doubt, superior to our 

 native ones in those countries, and the same rule holds 

 good in return ; for it must be admitted that, although an 

 occasional foreign variety will succeed in particular locali- 

 ties and soils, there are comparatively very few baskets 

 of the fruit seen in our markets; consequently we must 

 conclude that they are principally grown by amateurs or 

 those who propagate the plants for sale. 



Perhaps it is owing to the want of proper cultivation 

 that the foreign kinds, as a class, have not become as pop- 

 ular as their siipposed merits seem to deserve ; but be this 

 as it may, there are, no doubt, one hundred acres of native 

 kinds in cultivation to one of the foreign. 



One very significant fact is perhaps worthy of notice 



