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ven Scarlet, crossed with Ilautbois. The 

 seed was planted June 4th, 1845; fruited in 

 lb46; flower medium, with perfect anthers; 

 fruit rather large, roundish, with a large 

 thick neck, occupying nearly half of the 

 berry, deep crimson, with crimson seed. 

 The fruit begins to turn red on the lower 

 part of the neck, while the seeds are green. 

 Leaf rather large, with obtuse serratures 

 and hairy leaf stem. 



No. 201, E., produced by another seed of 

 the same berry, planted on the same day; 

 fruited in l!;<4(); flower rather large, wiih 

 perfect anthers; fruit quite large, roundish 

 depressed, bright crimson, with brown seed 

 in deep indentations; leaf large, with ob- 

 tuse serratures, and hairy leaf stem. 



No. 216, B., produced by a seed of a large 

 berry of spurious British Queen, no anthers; 

 grown near the Percival and Keens' Seed- 

 ling; the seed was planted June 9th, 1845; 

 fruited in 1846; flower medium, and with- 

 out anthers; fruit large, conical, scarlet, 

 with brown seed; leaf large, narrow, with 

 smooth leaf stem. 



No. 226, E., produced by a seed of a berry 

 of the President; anthers not having been 

 e.\-tracted; planted June 12th, 1845; fruited 

 in 1846; flower medium, with perfect an- 

 thers; fruit above medmm, long ovate, with 

 a neck, crimson, glazed, flavour luscious; 

 leaf small, leaf stem hairy. 



No. 226, G. — Will. Henry, so named after 

 one of my sons — produced by another seed 

 of the same berry, and planted on the same 

 day; fruited in 1846; flower above medium, 

 with a lew perfect anthers; fruit rich look- 

 ing, glazed, large, cordate, crimson, with 

 light -eed, and line flavour; leaf medium, 

 serratures not deep; hairy leaf stem. 



No. 229, B., — Virginia, so named afler 

 one of my daughters — produced from a seed 

 of a berry of Lizzie Randolph crossed with 

 Myatt's Eliza, and planted June 13th, 1845; 

 fruited in 1846; flower medium, with a few 

 small, pale, defective anthers; fruit of beau- 

 tiful appearance, large, roundish, conical, 

 ribbed, crimson ; leaf medium ; hairy leaf 

 stem. 



No. 235, R., produced by a seed of a berry 

 of the President, anthers not having been 

 extracted ; planted June 14th, 1845 ; blos- 

 somed April 15th, 1846; the plant at the 

 time being exceedingly small; flower me- 

 dium with perfect anthers; fruit highly var- 

 nished, large, roundish, some cockscomb 

 form, crimson ; seed mserted in slight de- 

 pressions; flavour fine; leaf large, roundish, 

 with obtuse serratures; hairy leaf stem. 



No. 244, B. — Keyser, so named in honour 

 of the chairman of the fruit committee of 



the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society — 

 produced by a seed of a berry of 53, D., — 

 Bisiiop's Orange crossed with conical Ilaut- 

 bois — without anthers. The seed was plant- 

 ed June 16th, 1845; fruited in 1846; flower 

 above medium, without anthers; fruit large, 

 ovate, with a neck, crimson ; leaf medium, 

 serratures obtuse, slightly hairy leaf stem. 



It will be perceived that the last described 

 nine varieties fruited in one year from the 

 seed. 



I had 254 kinds from seed planted last 

 summer after strawberries were ripe. Of 

 these 254 kinds 62 blossomed this summer. 

 Of the 62 kinds that blossomed in one year 

 from the seed, 43 fruited, and 19 were ste- 

 rile from imperfection of the pistillate or- 

 ganization. Of the 43 that fruited, 30 had 

 perfect anthers. 



Very truly yours, 



W. D. Brinckle. 



Philadelphia, August 3rJ, 184G. 



Essex Agricultural Transactions. 

 DANIEL Putnam's statement. 



To the Commitlee on Ihe Dairy : 



Gentlemen, — 1 offer for your inspection, 

 two boxes of September butter, containing 

 2&lbs., being a sample of 615 lbs., made be- 

 tween the 20th of May and the 20th of Sep- 

 tember, from the milk of eight cows, some 

 of which have been nearly dry a part of the 

 season, having calved last autumn. The 

 milk of more than one cow, has been sold 

 and used in the family, so that it would not 

 be more than the average milk of six cows. 

 Their feed has been a poor pasture, one 

 quart of meal per day, with some mown 

 grass or corn stalks. 



Process of making the butter. — The milk 

 is kept in tin pans. Afler standing from 

 thirty-five to forty-eight hours, the cream is 

 taken off and put into tin pails. We churn 

 twice a week. When the butter milk is 

 drawn from it, we thoroughly rinse it in 

 cold water; it is then taken from the churn, 

 worked in part, salted, an ounce of salt and 

 one-fourth of an ounce of loaf sugar to the 

 pound. In about twenty-four hours it is 

 worked the second time. 



Daniel Putnam. 



North Danvers, Sept. 24th, 1845. 



Wash your teeth at night, of course. 

 Why sleep with minute decomposing par- 

 ticles in your mouth, affecting your teeth, 

 your breath, and your health 7 Wash also 

 afler every meal, when convenient. 



