lo8 Notes and Gleanings. 



and cries " Humbng ! " entirely ignoring the evidence of such men as Col. Wilder, 

 C. M. Hovey, editor of " The Magazine of Horticulture," W. C. Strong, chair- 

 man of the Fruit Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and 

 James F. C. Hyde, president of said society, and many otliers who have seen 

 and do know about the strawberry, and have said what tliey know in our maga- 

 zine. If such men, who have been all their lives raising fruit, and are quite 

 familiar with every variety in the country worthy of cultivation, do not know 

 what a ^g'^;?^' strawberry is, will the good doctor, who has so great a sympathy for 

 the public for fear they will be cheated, just come on to the village of Boston, 

 and teach these gentlemen, so that they will hereafter know better than to 

 recommend a fruit as good until they have consulted our Western friends ? 



We will briefly refer to the remarks of Mr. E. A. Riehl as quoted above. In 

 reply to him, we afiEirm that wJiat he states is untrue ; and, if he can produce such 

 a letter, we will print it in the most conspicuous part of our Jourtial. What 

 say, Mr. Riehl t 



And further : we shall not at present consult our enemies or our rivals. We 

 hold ourselves responsible for what we publish, and never mean to swerve from 

 the truth in regard to any matter that we give to the public. It has been our 

 constant aim to give correct illustrations of new and valuable fruits, flowers, and 

 vegetables, and reliable information concerning them, and only such. 



If our course does not satisfy our contemporaries who have published the 

 foolish remarks of these men with so much alacrity, then we hope they will 

 keep on advertising us, and thus help to swell our large and rapidly-increasing 

 list of subscribers. 



Ohio Horticultural Society. — Orchard Crops, Small Fruits, Ever- 

 greens. — Co-operative Discussion. — The annual meeting of this society at Co- 

 lumbus the past month was well attended, notwithstanding very unfavorable 

 weather. Nearly all parts of the State were represented ; and the proceedings 

 were quite animated and hopeful, although the fruit-crops the past season were 

 generally quite deficient. 



After the reading of ad-interim reports, and the annual address of President 

 Warder, Mr. Starrs of Painesville, from^ a committee apix)inted last year, read a 

 report on the deterioration or failure of orchard-crops. The committee had not 

 been able to devote as much attention to the subject as its importance deserves : 

 hence they were, by a vote of the society, re-appointed to investigate the subject 

 another season, and report at the next annual meeting. 



It was shown from the assessor's returns that the apple-crop of the State in 

 1867 amounted to about ten million btishels ; and the peach-crop, one and a half 

 million bushels : and the crops of that season were deficient in many parts of 

 the State, though a better average than for 186S, especially the apple-crop. 



The deterioration of the apple-crops has been pretty general throughout the 

 State, though less in the lake-region on the north, and among the hills of the 

 coal-measures of the south-east, than elsewhere. The causes of the evil, as far 

 as understood, are various : first, exhaustion of the soil of its fertility or ele- 

 ments requisite for the health and fruitfulness of the trees ; second, negligent 



