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country ; at the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society, the best quart of 

 strawberries the first premium for Hovey's Seedling. At the Long Island 

 Horticultural Society, Messrs. Winter received the prize for three quarts, 

 which were " unexceptionably fine" ; these were in competition with upwards 

 of THIRTY other varieties, including Buist's Prize, North's Victory, Tay- 

 lor's Seedling, Black Prince, and others, which have been advertised as 

 equal or superior to the seedling ; and this, too, in Flushing, where our friends 

 pride themselves upon their great collections, and the successful cultivation 

 of this fruit. At the Utica Horticultural Society, " Mr. Wm. Walcott's 

 Hovey's Seedlings were acknowledged, by common consent, to be the larg- 

 est strawberries ever seen in this country, some of them measuring four and 

 three quarters inches in circumference." At the Montreal Horticultural 

 Society, " the competitors for the prize were numerous : a large basket of 

 Hovey's Seedling, from J. Archbald, gardener to Jas. Savage, Esq., ex- 

 cited unusual admiration, and very deservedly received the first prize." At 

 the American Agricultural Association, New York, D. W. Coit, Esq., of 

 Norwich, Conn., received the first prize, in competition with a large num- 

 ber of varieties from Messrs. Prince & Co., of Flushing. We merely note 

 these awards to show that a strawberry must be a very good one to compete 

 with it, although it was raised thirteen years ago. — Ed. 



Premiums for New Varieties of Strawberries and Raspberries. — The Cin- 

 cinnati Horticultural Society have offered the sum of $ 100 for a seedling 

 strawberry, which shall " exceed the most our Seedling in average size," 

 and, we presume, equal it in other respects. This we learn from the 

 Ohio Cultivator, although we have seen no official report on the subject. 

 When the report of the committee offering the premium comes to hand, we 

 shall notice the particulars on which the award is to be made. The pre- 

 mium is to be given in 1850. The same sum (;J;100) is also offered for the best 

 seedling Raspberry. — Ed. 



Burr's Seedling Strawberries. — Three years ago. Dr. Brinkle raised a 

 great number of new seedling strawberries, and named and described some 

 thirty or forty of them, many of which were stated to be much superior to 

 Hovey's Seedling ; but we believe not one of them has proved to be val- 

 uable. Mr. Burr, of Ohio, has, within a few years, raised a great number 

 of varieties, several of which, the present year, he has named and offered 

 for sale ; he has also exhibited them before the Columbus and Cincinnati 

 Horticultural Societies, and they have reported upon them as " remarkably 

 fine." It is now nearly fourteen years since our two seedlings were pro- 

 duced, and although Col. Wilder, and Capt. Lovett, of Beverly, and other 

 cultivators around Boston have raised thousands of seedlings within the last 

 six years, they have not found one, which they consider wonhy of a name, 

 knowing that unless they excel the older kinds, there would be no real merit 

 in their production. They are well aware that it is as easy to raise seedling 

 strawberries of the size and quality of all the older kinds, as to raise any 

 other seedling plants; but, in the present improved state of this delicious 

 fruit, it would be useless to encumber our catalogues with such sorts. 



Such may not, however, be the case with Mr. Burr's strawberries i we 



