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This is at the rate of 4000 quarts to the acre, which, at Boston prices, 

 would net, after all expenses of picking and selling, 20 cents per box, or 

 $1600 per acre. The writer sets down the total expense of labor per year 

 at SifiO. This certainly would afford a handsome profit, far exceeding that 

 of any other variety we have yet seen. It is somewhat different from the 

 Btatement of a writer at Poughkeepsie, that Hovey's Seedling was " far be- 

 hind all others," in productiveness, not bearing one fourth as much as the 

 Early Scarlet. Taking this writer's estimate, he ought to get 16,000 quarts 

 of the Early Scarlet to an acre, and nobody believes this, any more than 

 they do his preceding statement. The fact is, that the writer did not in- 

 tend to slate the truth, or else he cultivates, as a great many do in West- 

 ern New York, Mr. Downing's Hovey's Seedling, a staminate variety, 

 which he sent to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, as the true 

 Hovey's Seedling, but which proved a worthless sort. What confirms 

 this, is the statement by the writer, that the " vexed strawberry question," 

 is unknown in his garden. — Ed. 



Mr. P. ^arry, of the firm of Ell wanger, Barry & Rowe, nurserymen, 

 Rochester, N. Y., sailed for England in the early part of December last. 

 He intends making a visit of about three months, and will return in March. 

 The object of his tour is to visit the gardens and nurseries of England, 

 Scotland, France and Belgium, and to select all the new and choice kinds 

 of fruits, worthy of introduction to our gardens. — Ed. 



Art. hi. New Haven County Horticultural Society. 



The annual exhibition of this Society was held on the 27th of Septem- 

 ber last, at New Haven, and a report of the same has been published, a 

 copy of which, we have before us, containing an account of the flowers, 

 fruits, and vegetables exhibited, with the premiums awarded, and the list 

 of officers for the year 1849. We give a brief abstract of the report: — 



Plants. — The principal contributions of plants came from E. Watkins, 

 who sent IpomjB'a Leirli, -Siilvia splendens major, P^ntas carnea, &c. 

 Messrs. H. Whitney, E. Mugford, John Moneghan, and others, also sent 

 email cjllections. 



Fruits. — The exhibition of pears was very good. Dr. V. M. Dow had, 

 among sixteen sorts, the Howell, which we shall describe in our next. 

 Col. J. A. Totten exhibited the Vicompte de Spoelberch, Howell, Ed- 

 ward's Elizabeth, McLaughlin, and seventeen other sorts. Miss H. Ed- 

 wards exhibited the following, all of them, we believe, seedlings of Gov. Ed- 

 wards : — Gerry, Tyler, Clay, Van Buren, Spice, Cantelope, Jackson, 

 Seedling St. Germain, Frances, Baking, Black Hawk, Calhoun, Elizabeth, 

 John, Dallas, Humbug, and Harriet. S. D. Pardee exhibited, among oth- 

 ers. Van Mons Leon le Clerc. There were also about twenty other con- 

 tributors of small collections. 



