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Keyes's and Bates's Early Tomatoes. — We examined and compared, on 

 the thirteenth day of August, these two varieties of tomatoes, growing side 

 by side, and subjected to the same treatment, in a garden in the vicinity of 

 Boston. The seed of both was planted in the hot-bed the same day, the plants 

 transplanted the same day, and the after treatment was alike in both cases. The 

 Keyes, on the day above-named, were full grown, but green and unripe : a few 

 were whitish, and just ready to begin to turn. 



The Bates plants showed a great number of perfectly ripe tomatoes ; and the 

 cultivator told us that the vines had supplied his table with ripe fruit for 

 several days. 



We noticed, in the same garden, the Maupay, unripe to be sure, but con- 

 spicuous for the regularity and smoothness of the fruit. 



Strawberries. — Mr. Barrj', of the firm of Ellwanger and Barry, writes to 

 us, that he has gathered and sold sixty-four hundred quarts of strawberries 

 from five-eighths of an acre. 



The variety was the Wilson, and the average price eight cents per quart. 



The enormous quantity — being at the rate often thousand two hundred and 

 forty quarts per acre — and the very low price are the facts that strike us most 

 forciby. 



We have known strawberries grown near Boston, in small patches, at the 

 rate of more than nine thousand quarts to the acre ; and it would give us great 

 satisfaction to chronicle next year so good a result as Mr. Barry's from an experi- 

 ment carried out on an exact acre, by some of our Massachusetts growers. 



The low price obtained by Mr. Barry forms a striking contrast with the prices 

 that rule here. One grower, not far from Boston, raised fifty-four hundred quarts 

 on an acre this present season, and sold them for thirty-five cents per quart, or 

 about four and a half times Mr. Barry's price. We believe that the price of 

 fruit of most kinds is higher in our markets than in those of any other part of 

 the country. 



Our valued correspondent, D. M. Balch of Salem, Mass., writes to us about 

 strawberries as follows : — 



" I am perfectly satisfied with the Jucunda. Until this variety appeared. La 

 Constante was my favorite. The Jucunda does not equal this in flavor or shape, 

 but in all else surpasses it. The yield is rather more than two quarts to a 

 square yard, and the size uniformly large. I shall plant no other variety, hav- 

 ing hoed up and destroyed a dozen kinds. Agriculturist is good for nothing. 

 My Diana Hamburg is growing well. Last season it lost every leaf" 



[We should like to have an acre of Jucundas if we could get nine thousand 

 quarts of large berries from it. — Ed."] 



Creveling grape-vines with us have set their fruit well this year, showing 

 none of the loose clusters sometimes complained of; and now, middle of August, 

 look extremely well, with the exception of a few specks of mildew. 



