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CONDUCTED BY P. BARRY. 



NOTES ON STRAWBERRIES. 



For the hcnofit of those of the readers of the Farmer who are desirous of information 

 on fruits, we jot down, while fresh on the mind, the results of another year's experience. 



First among the fruits of the season comes the strawberry. The culture of this fruit 

 is every year attracting more attention ; around Rochester it is assuming considerable 

 importance ; several large market plantations are already pouring in their abundance. 

 The pruspect is that Rochester will be soon, if it be not already, the best supplied town 

 in the United States with this delicious fruit. We are quite confident that now, in point 

 of quality, the strawberries of the Rochester markets compare favorably with those of 

 other places ; but there is yet great room for improvement. Our growers generally 

 take good care of their plantations the first or second year, and produce splendid crops ; 

 but the third, and after, the beds get old, the ground all covered, and the fruit runs 

 down to the miserable market size. But purchasers are learning to buy and eat, as we 

 learn to cultivate ; tliey are becoming more difficult to please and more discriminating 

 in their prices, so that by and by cultivators will discover that it will not pay to be 

 slovenly. 



Cincinnati has almost a "world wide" strawberry fame. Her cultivators have pene- 

 trated so deeply into its interesting philosophy, that the most learned among the modern 

 Athenians, with all their pomological wisdom, can not get along without an occasional 

 lecture from them. They have been pioneers in the extensive culture of the straw beiTy, 

 and have promulgated, in the face of stern opposition, some wholesome truths in regard 

 to " stamens and pistils," now very generally carried into practice. But, judgnng from 

 samples sent this way the present season, and from reports of eye witnesses, their straw- 

 berries are far behind those of Rochester, in point of size and beauty at least. We iiave 

 been looking over the report of the fruit committee on their exhibition of the 3d and 4th 

 of June last, and find that McAvoyh Siqjerior, that last year received Mr. Longwokth's 

 premium of $100, has been again awarded the fii'st premium as the best variety exhib- 

 ited. Schniecke's Pistillate is highly spoken of, and many new promising varieties are 

 announced. 



The display made by the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society on the 25th and 26th 

 of .June last, lias perhaps never been surpassed, if equalled, in this country. R. G. Par- 

 dee, Esq., of Palmyra, exhibited about forty varieties ; several others, from twelve to 

 twenty varieties each. From among these, the fruit committee, consisting of practical 

 cultivators and critical judges, awarded both the first and second premiums to Burr''s 

 New Pine., '■'■placing flavor and productiveness before size.'''' 



This would seem to answer the question, What is the best strawberry grown around 

 Rochester? For several years — indeed, ever since its introduction — \h.Q Burros Neio 

 Pine lias been acknowledged to be one of the finest flavored fruits that has been grown 

 or exhibited here. No fruit ever acquired such a popularity in so short a time. But it 

 is worthy of it. The plant is hardy and productive ; the fruit large, handsome, and 

 good. The fruit committee of the Albany and Ransselasr Hort. Society awarded to it 

 the first premium both last year and this. The report this year reads thus : 



" For the best and finest flavored variety, to Joel Rathbone, for Burr's New Pine — beautiful epeci- 

 mens — §2. • 



"For the second best and second finest flavored variety, to C. P. Williams, for Hovet/s Seedling — 

 "j K very large and beautiful specimens — $1. j r 



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