354 A few words about Strawberries. 



will bear a full crop of fruit as large as Hovey's Seedling. 

 Such a strawberry is, I think, the Cushing. 



Buist's Prize. — This magnificent strawberry was grown 

 from seed in 1842. In flavor it far surpasses Hovey's Seed- 

 ling ; every flower being perfect, it excels it as a general and 

 constant bearer, is also earlier and continues longer in fruit, 

 having upon the same plant, at the same time, ripe fruit and 

 perfect flowers. 



Burr's New Pine. — Compared with Hovey's Seedling, the 

 New Pine is equal to it in average size, while it greatly ex- 

 ceeds it in productiveness, and especially in flavor. Fruit 

 large, color pale red ; believed to be the best strawberry cul- 

 tivated. 



Besides these, if we may believe the evidence of individuals 

 "born in a garden," the ^^ Black Prince is, on the whole, the 

 highest flavored and the best strawberry yet known in this 

 country." 



But, without occupying room in copying additional evi- 

 dence of the supposed superiority of all the new kinds, let us 

 see how the public, through our Horticultural Societies, re- 

 gard the matter the present season. 



In Philadelphia, the first prize was awarded to Mr. Joseph 

 J. Hatch, for Hovey's Seedling, who exhibited only that va- 

 riety and the Boston Pine. In competition, were the Black 

 Prince, Burr's New Pine, and a dozen other sorts. 



In Rochester, the first prize was awarded to M. G. Warner, 

 for Hovey's Seedling, and the second to Lewis Burtis, for 

 Hovey's Seedling. In competition, were the Black Prince, 

 Burr's New Pine, Cushing, and a dozen others. 



In Boston, the first prize was awarded to Josiah Richard- 

 son, for the Boston Pine; the second, to O. Johnson, for Hov- 

 ey's Seedling; and the third, to Hovey &Co., for the Boston 

 Pine. 



These are the reports, so far as they have come to hand, 

 and are but the repetition of the same thing, for a dozen 

 years. And now Dr. Bayne's question may again be per- 

 tinently asked, " Have you yet procured one which can suc- 

 cessfully compete with Hovey's Seedling 7" Where are these 

 noted kinds which were to surpass it 7 Why do they not take 



