Transplantation of Coniferous Forest Trees. 349 



to an article in the Transactions of the London Horticultu- 

 ral Society by Sir George Stuart Mackenzie, (Vol. VII. p. 

 342). He states " that many berries decay and are passed 

 over, and inferior ones are not gathered. The seeds from 

 these drop, and new sorts come up, and if runners from these 

 are taken, of course they are not the true kind." This ac- 

 counts for the staminate plants, which, after a year or two, 

 spring up, and if, in making new beds, the plants are not 

 selected by those who know them by some other way than 

 the " staminate flowers," the error will be perpetuated, and 

 inferior sorts be the result. 



Not long since, we noticed that some western cultivators 

 had purchased staminate Hovey's Seedlings of some of the 

 Eastern nurserymen, who had found such in their beds, 

 and supposed they were the original form of the variety : and 

 notwithstanding we have repeatedly asserted that the origi- 

 nal plants were the same as they are now — imperfect.^ hav- 

 ing the stamens, but few or no anthers — still they imagine 

 that their short acquaintance with the variety is better than 

 the testimony of the originator, before whose eye they have 

 constantly been for thirteen years. It would be quite useless 

 to argue the question with those who hold such absurd no- 

 tions. 



We may, therefore, repeat that Hovey's Seedling, when 

 true, must have some staminate variety to impregnate it, and, 

 for this purpose, Ave use exclusively the Boston Pine, "which 

 is fully equal to it in every quality but size; being a week 

 earlier, the most productive of all strawberries, of delicious 

 flavor, and only about one quarter less in size than Hovey's 

 Seedling, averaging four inches in circumference. 



4 

 Art. hi. On the Transplantation of the Coniferous Forest 



Trees {Pines, ^'c), of New England to the Southern States. 

 By Dr. A. Mitchell, Portland, Me. In a Letter to the 

 Hon. H. a. S, Dearborn. Communicated by Gen. Dear- 

 born. 



Since my last communication to you, I have received a let- 

 ter from Dr. Bacon, informing me that he has been suflering 

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