

THE GENESEE FARMER 



BRITISH QUEEN. Fi^. ?. 



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5tli. Treatment of the Plants during the Bearing Season. — Attend to the 

 culture of the soil as on the first season, keeping it clean and friable ; keep down run- 

 ners ; and provide for a liberal supply of water in case of drouth. The greatest draw- 

 back in strawberry culture, with us, is 

 dry weather at the time of the swelling 

 of the fruit ; and if we want them large, 

 we must apply water frerli/ — let it flow 

 over the plants in torrents three or four 

 times a week. Weak liquid manure, 

 occasionally, will be a great aid in giv- 

 ing size. The result of all our obser- 

 vations at home and abroad, in regard 

 to strawberry culture, is, that great size 

 and heavy crop^s can only be obtained 

 by a liberal supply of moisture in con- 

 nection with deep rich soil. We have 

 no space now to quote examples in sup- 

 port of this, but the foct is unquestion 

 able, and it will be well to bear it in mind. 



We now come to the selection of va- 

 rieties, which is a matter of considera- 

 ble importance. After many trials and 

 expei'iments here in the vicinity of Ro- 

 chester, and we ought to add extensive 

 experiments both by amateur and mar- 

 ket growers, the following varieties are pretty well settled down upon as the best and 

 most profitable : 



Bii,rr''s New Pine, (pistillate.) Fig. 1. — A large, light red berry of the finest flavor. 

 Productive and hardy. R. G. Pardee, Esq., of Palmyra, a first rate amateur grower, 

 exhibited specimens at last year's exhibition of the Gen- 

 esee Valley Horticultural Society, measuring four inches 

 in circumference, and they received the first premium. 



Hovcifs Seedling, (pistillate.) Fig. 2. — One of the 

 largest and best American varieties — extensively gi'own 

 and universally admired. 



Large Early Scarlet, (hermaphrodite.) — An old, fine 

 variety. Good size, good flavor, and always bears well. 

 One of the best for planting with the pistillate sorts. 



Boston Pine, (hermaphrodite.) — A large, fine, produc- 

 tive variety, under high culture, but worthless with bad 

 treatment. 



Ifudson, (of Cincinnati.) — A most productive variety 

 — the great fi-uit of the Cincinnati market growers. The 

 Rochester people esteem quite as highly Burr''s Rival 

 Hudson — a late acid variety, fine for preserving. 



To insure the fertilization of the pistillate sorts, one 

 row of the staminate or hermaphrodite varieties should bo 

 planted between every four, or in some such proportion. 



It is somewhat remarkable that scarcely any foreign 

 varieties prove profitable for our cultivation. In England, and indeed in France, the 

 great strawberry of the day — the one that in every garden and in every market attracts 

 one's attention particularly — is the British Queen, (fig. 3.) We have never seen such 



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