4 Strawberries. 



strawberry for the million. Its large size, hardiness, and wonderful produc 

 tiveness, render it extremely valuable to those with whom quantity rather 

 than quality is the great object. Like the Hovey, and if possible more so, 

 it has found its way all over the country, and everywhere been successfully 

 cultivated. We want a variety that shall combine all the desirable quali- 

 cies of the Wilson with the good quality of Boston Pine or Hovey's 

 Seedling. 



Triomphe de Gand. — This variety is almost the only one among the 

 foreign kinds that has done well in field-culture in this country. It is a 

 berry of good quality and large size, but should be grown in hills to give 

 the best results. It is less popular than it was a few years ago, and must 

 soon give way before the improved native sorts. 



The Lady of the Lake is among the new sorts recently put upon the 

 market, originated by Mr. Scott of Brighton, who raised the Brighton Pine; 

 and though not so handsome or so good a berry, yet, if properly cultivated, 

 will, without doubt, prove profitable. It is a pistillate variety, and must 

 have some staminate variety planted near in order to obtain a full crop. 



The Jucunda has within a year or two attracted considerable attention, 

 and has proved to be valuable for market-purposes in the hands of some 

 of our noted cultivators. It is at the North not of first quality, being rather 

 watery and flavorless. We have raised berries of good size ; but we do not 

 expect good results from it here, whatever it may do at Pittsburg or far- 

 ther West. It is said to be a foreign variety ; and we have never been highly 

 successful with any but native sorts. 



We have now briefly noticed most of the varieties that have attracted 

 and are now attracting the attention of the strawbeny-grower ; and it only 

 remains for us to speak of the latest wonder in the long list of strawberries. 

 Among those who have been eminently successful in horticulture, no one 

 stands higher than Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, who has produced the finest 

 seedling camellias that the world has ever seen, the stock of which sold 

 for a large sum ; who has raised the finest lilies, seedling-pears, grapes, 

 and last, but not least, the finest and most promising strawberry that has 

 yet been produced, surpassing in some respects both its parents, the 

 Hovey's Seedling and La Constante, and combining more good qualities 

 than can be found in any other variety of this fruit. Our attention was 



