32 A New White Verbena. 



ard for us to work up to is that of cultivating a moderate surface, and then 

 attending to it as thoroughly as if it were only a square rod. 



The other notable fact is, that, notwithstanding the alleged uncertain 

 returns from field-culture, the cultivation of strawberries increases annually. 

 If it were not a profitable business, it would be speedily abandoned ; for 

 Americans incontinently drop a thing when it ceases to pay. On the con- 

 trary, probably no small fruit has yielded a higher average profit for ten 

 years past. It may be that grapes in particular localities, and having six 

 to eight years' growth, have done better ; but eight years of strawberries 

 will be found to pay more than eight of grapes. The outlay on the latter 

 will be large in time and interest ; but the strawberry gives returns so quick- 

 ly, that time and interest are of no account. The key to a uniform success 

 is, either to plant a smaller area, or to cultivate a ten-acre field exactly as 

 we do a single rod. Edmund Morris. 



Burlington, N.J. 



A NEW WHITE VERBENA. 



Mr. Wellwood Young, for many years gardener to the late James Ar- 

 nold of New Bedford, has had under cultivation for several years a very 

 beautiful white verbena, a seedling of his own raising, which he has neither 

 named nor distributed up to the present season. This year, however, he 

 has put a few cuttings in the hands of an amateur, for propagation ; and 

 we shall soon have a very valuable addition to our list of white verbenas 

 in this new seedling, which has been named Mrs. Merrick. 



y. M. M., Jun. 



