404 Remarks on several varieties of Stratoberries. 



bushels of pears; in the year 1839 it produced eighty bushels; 

 and in the year 1840 it produced one hundred and forty bush- 

 els. In one other year (but which year the account before 

 me does not state,) it produced one hundred and thirty-eight 

 bushels. 



This tree grows about ten miles north of Vincennes, Knox 

 Co., Indiana, and is said to have sprung from a seed planted 

 some thirty-five or forty years ago, by a Mrs. Ockletree. 

 The tree is a very rapid grower. 



It is perfectly hardy, a constant bearer, and, T need not say, 

 an enormously productive kind. The fruit is about the size 

 of a turkey's egg; rating, as to quality, with about the third 

 grade of dessert pears. It is a fall — early fall, pear. The 

 accounts of the time between the planting of the seed and the 

 bearing of this tree, vary from nine to fifteen years. The 

 original owners are dead. We have the fruit growing in our 

 nurseries, near town, and grafts may be sent, should any gen- 

 tleman in your neighborhood desire it. I regret that the young 

 man did not ascertain the height of the tree. 



I am, respectfully, yours, H. W. Beecher. 



Sept. 29, 1842. 



Art. III. Additional Remarks on the fertile and sterile char- 

 acter of several varieties of Straicbcrries; with a JSTotice of 

 a new native species of the Strawberry^ from the Prairies of 

 Iowa. By N. Longworth, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Sir: — In the publication of my letter in the July number 

 of your Magazine, I am made to say, "the small Virginia 

 scarlet produces about half a crop of delicious fruit:" it should 

 read, "the male* Virginia scarlet." This variety has the 

 female plant, and when in a situation to be impregnated, is an 

 abundant bearer of good sized, well flavored, fruit. The 

 male organs are wholly defective in the female plant. Let me 



* We read it male in the manuscript, but in the proof we inadver- 

 tently omitted to make the correction. — Ed. 



