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plants this season, the fruit being watery and insipid. A two-year-old bed, 

 on very light, sandy soil, is wholly r^in out. 



Downer'' s ProUJic. — This variet}' maintains its reputation. Vigorous, 

 hardy, and enormously productive. The fruit is somewhat soft, and a little 

 acid ; otherwise good. 



Expositio7i a Chalons. — A row of this kind bore a few large, queer-tast- 

 ing berries. This is strictly what the catalogues call "an amateur's berry." 



Frenches Early. — This is a little earlier, but not much better, than Dow- 

 ner's Prolific. Young plants bear very good-sized berries. 



yuciinda. — I had a few Jucundas on plants set this spring ; and for color 

 and firmness, as well as large size, they were every way admirable. Vari- 

 ous cultivators in this vicinity have the Jucunda in fruit ; and its great firm- 

 ness, which enables it to be sent to a distant market, will make it very pop- 

 ular. As to flavor, there will probably always be a division of opinion ; 

 and I cannot yet make up my mind how good a berry the Jucunda is, but 

 must wait till I have better opportunities of testing it. 



Lennig's White. — A bed of Lennig's White (plants one and two years 

 old), in a moist, moderately rich soil, has given me this year an abundant 

 yield of delicious fruit. In fact, hardly any berry exceeds a ripe Lennig 

 in high flavor and juiciness. 



Orb. — A little bed of this variety, in its third year, did not, the present 

 season, give three berries. Plants a year old generally bear a very moder- 

 ate crop, but good enough, I think, to warrant an amateur in keeping a 

 small stock of plants. 



Searlet Magnate. — This, too, has run out. My bed, planted in 1865, 

 bore only a few small berries. The first year, the crop was very fine and 

 handsome. The fruit is sweet, rich, and good. 



Rippowam. — I had, in one corner of my garden, half a dozen plants in 

 bearing, and am glad I did not have more. The foliage is much like that 

 of Rivers's Eliza ; but I did not have fruit enough to settle the question 

 of its identity. 



I have had in fruit this year a number of seedlings from the Agricultu- 

 rist, Lucida Perfecta, and La Constante, most of them worthless ; but some 

 of considerable merit, so far as can be decided by a single year's trial. 



Those from the Lucida Perfecta were entirely worthless ; though the plants 



