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flesh red, solid, fine grained, juicy and saccharine, with a 

 delicious perfumed flavor. Plants robust and great bearers. 

 Received a first class certificate last year at Chiswick. 



Scarlet Noiijmreil. Raised from Keen's Seedling and 

 British Queen, partaking of the character of both parents ; 

 possessing all the hardiness of the former, and high flavor of 

 the latter ; berries are of the largest size, pretty regularly 

 formed, bright glossy red, ripening to the point; flesh pinkish 

 white, delicate, saccharine, and rich, with a highly perfumed 

 flavor. 



Sir C. Napier and Admiral Dundas, are two other very 

 highly praised kinds, the first taking the premium at the last 

 June show, 1855, of the London Horticultural Society. 

 These sorts we have under cultivation, and hope to have th?, 

 opportunity to test them next season. 



Hovey's Seedling Strawberry. — We noticed the exhibi- 

 tion of strawberries in Cincinnati, in our last number, andl 

 we expected to have received a full report before this, but 

 it has not come to hand. Mr. Barry, who has been on ai 

 visit to the West, gives a brief account of the strawberry 

 culture in Ohio, and corroborates what has been stated in. 

 regard to Hovey's Seedling. He says, " I took several occa- 

 sions to examine the market. I found immense quantities, 

 consisting, in most part, of the Iowa, generally called Wash- 

 ington by the market men ; Hudson, the old favorite sort,, 

 and Hovey's Seedling. The last named were in all cases 

 the best, and sold at twenty-five cents the quart, while others 

 were ofl"ered at fifteen cents. The first words I heard on the 

 subject of strawberries were, ' Hovey's Seedling has beaten 

 us all this season ; ' and, judging from the samples in the mar- 

 ket, we should say this was really so. The growers, who 

 supply the market, informed us that the ' Superior ' would 

 prove too tender for market, and would not be extensively- 

 grown." 



Strawberries in Rochester, N. Y. — A meeting of the 

 members of the Fruit Growers' Society, recently established 

 in Western New York, was held at Rochester, June 2d, for 

 the purpose of examining the cherries and strawberries culti- 



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