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9. Burr's old Seedling. — (Staminate,) maintains its liigh reputation, 

 in this region, for productiveness and excellent flavor, and is found to be 

 the best variety for planting contiguous to the pistillate varieties to ensure 

 their productiveness. — {Ohio Cultivator.) 



Pistillate Straiuherry Plants not froduclivc. — The two strawberry plants 

 mentioned in my last, (p. 237), both flowered, but there never was any 

 sign of a fruit while in my garden. I do not remember a season when they 

 bore so well. I am doubtful whether what I got as your seedling and 

 Keen's are not the same, as the leaves and fruit are exactly alike, while a 

 few plants given me to try by Mr. Lewis R. Sams, as your seedling, im- 

 ported direct from you by himself, are very different in both fruit and leaf. 

 T have in cultivation two other kinds, the one a pistillate plant, with rather 

 ovate leaves, fruit firm fleshed, sometimes with a whitish neck, conical 

 shaped, and comparatively free from acid, and very productive. The other, 

 a perfect flowering plant, bearing a small crop of small fruit, early, and 

 afterwards a fair crop of large cockscomb-shaped fruit, soft fleshed, rather 

 acid, but very high flavored, bearing for about one month after Keen's 

 seedling. Both these varieties, but especially the latter, are very vigorous 

 growers, and the latter variety bears its fruit upon a stalk that shoots above 

 the leaves when in flower, but drops under them when the fruit grows. 

 Can you tell me the names of these varieties'? They are common here, I 

 believe. We have the promise of little fruit hereabouts this summer. We 

 had very severe cold on the 8th January last, a black frost or ice in April, 

 (about one month later than common,) then a drought, followed, for about a 

 month past, by frequent and heavy rains. — Yours, R. Chisholm, Beaufort, 

 S. C, June 25, 1847. [It would be rather difficult to name the kinds of 

 Strawberries which our correspondent alludes to merely from his description. 

 The experiment with the pistillate, or imperfect flowering strawberries, is 

 only one among the many which, when fairly tried, settle the question 

 about the change from the normal form. — Ed.] 



Two new Seedlincr Cherries. — Our correspondent, Dr. Wendell, of Albany, 

 has raised two new seedling cherries, as will be seen by a report of the 

 Albany Horticultural Society in another page. We are happy to see atten- 

 tion given to the cherry, for we believe there is room for great improvement 

 in this fine fruit. Undoubtedly Dr. Wendell will send us some account of 

 his two seedlings. — Ed. 



Albany and Rensselaer Horticultural Society.— nBy the kindness of the 

 Secretary of this new and flourishing society, we have been favored with 

 detailed reports of the two exhibitions held on the 3d and 24th of July. 



We regret that we have not room to give them entire ; but, as they 

 would occupy eight or ten pages, we are obliged to condense them so as to 

 give only the most interesting portions of the reports. 



The first exhibition of the society was held at the Geological Rooms, in 

 the city of Albany, on Saturday, the 3d of July. 



Grkenhouse Plants and Flowers. — The committee on greenhouse 

 plants and flowers report, that the first premium on the six best greenhouse 

 plants is due to L. Menand, of Watervliet, $2. The second to James 



