Notes and Gleanings. i'^\y 



Wilsoii's Albany. — Crop good. Fruit very large. Still unsurpassed as a 

 market variety. 



The following are worthless : — 



Boston Pine, Burr's New Pine, Chorlton, Cutter, French's Seedling, Golden 

 Seeded, Lady Finger, New Jersey Scarlet, Russell's Prolific, Stinger, Philadel- 

 phia, Victoria. 



American Pomological Society. — We have received from Hon. Mar- 

 shall P. Wilder the following reply to the inquiry of " Nurseryman," in our last 

 number : — 



" I have no authority to say what shall or shall not be done in regard to ex- 

 hibitions of the articles mentioned by your correspondent, but I take the liberty 

 to state what I understood to be the feeling of the society as expressed in 

 a discussion on that subject during the session at St. Louis. That feeling was 

 that no exhibitions of nursery stock and other articles for sale should be per- 

 mitted within the place of meeting. Such exhibitions, with the trafficking which 

 would inevitably accompany them, would soon compromise the dignity of the 

 society as a scientific body. Besides this, by absorbing the time and distracting 

 the attention of the members, it would take much from the interest of the meet- 

 ing. The time at our meetings is so precious, that it is desirable to have the 

 undivided attention of the members. It should be remembered that I give this 

 opinion in an unofficial capacity. Marshall P. Wilder. 



"July 29, 1871." 



Lima Beans without Stakes. — Mr. McAfee, Superintendent of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin Experimental Farm, informs us that for three years past he 

 has grown Lima beans without poles or stakes, by persistent pinching back after 

 they reach the desired height — about that of common bunch beans. He is con- 

 fident the crop is very perceptibly earlier, and thinks it is increased in quantity ; 

 the plant being checked in its growth of vine, expending its energy in fruit pro- 

 duction. On the farm we saw some so treated that were well loaded with fruit. 



Western Fanner. 



Salt for the Strawberry. — The Norfolk Virginian is informed by a 

 practical horticulturist that during an overflow from an extraordinary storm, a 

 strawberry bed was partially covered with brackish water at the time when fruit 

 was forming, and also that the occurrence stimulated the vines to greater per- 

 fection of fruit and general vigor — a discovery that may prove of advantage to 

 fruit raisers in the vicinity of salt water. 



Viburnum plicatum. — "W. C. B.," of the Mount Hope Nurseries, says in 

 the American Rural Home, " This new Viburnum, or Snowball, promises to be 

 of great value. It produces in great profusion large trusses of pure white flow- 

 ers. The trusses are very compact, and the individual flowers have great sub- 

 stance. It has been but little propagated as yet, and consequently is not known. 

 It may be regarded as a great acquisition to the list of flowering shrubs. 



