406 Remarks on the Sterility of 



I will, in the spring, send you a few of these plants, and some 

 other varieties of seedlings that will be new to you. I can 

 also send you one that is, 1 believe, of the pine family, pro- 

 ducing the largest fruit of any variety that has come under my 

 observation, that is perfect in both the male and female organs. 



Yours, N. LONGVVORTH. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1842. 



We shall be pleased to receive the different kinds of straw- 

 berries kindly offered us by our correspondent, should he find 

 a good opportunity to send them. The Prairie strawberry 

 may yet prove the parent of larger varieties than any we now 

 possess. — Ed. 



Art. IV. Remarks on the Sterility of several kinds of Straw- 

 berries; and a Query respecting the best method of insuring 

 the Jertility of old plantations. By D. W. Coit, Esq., 

 Norwich, Conn. 



An article in the last number of the Cultivator, on the cul- 

 ture of the strawberry, and particularly of your "Hovey's 

 Seedling," has attracted my attention, and at the same time 

 been very acceptable, having under cultivation myself several 

 kinds of the strawberry referred to, which have hitherto proved 

 barren and useless, but which, by the new light thrown on the 

 subject, in the article referred to, 1 hope may now be render- 

 ed valuable. 



As you appear to be immediately interested in the subject, 

 and moreover, as (I believe) you write for the benefit of the 

 public, I have thought that the observations of another, difier- 

 ing in some particulars from your own, might be not uninter- 

 esting to you. 



About two years ago, my neighbor, Mr. Benjamin Hunting- 

 ton, procured from some garden in your vicinity, the following 

 kinds of strawberry, viz: — Methven Castle, Warren's seed- 

 ling Methven, and Haulbois, and, at the same time, from your- 

 self, your Hovey's seedHng. These were set out in parallel 



