66 A Spoiled Child. 



Agriculturist produced a large crop of enormous fruit, commanding the 

 highest price in market. 



Of the newer varieties, the Charles Downing, Romeyn, and Boyden's 

 No. 30, have all given great satisfaction, being large, showy berries, and 

 very attractive in appearance. 



Kentucky, raised by J. S. Downer, from the seed of Downer's Prolific, 

 much resembling the Charles Downing, strong, vigorous grower, with stout 

 fruit-stalks, holding the berries well up from the ground ; blossoms perfect; 

 fruit large, firm, bright red color, and excellent quality ; time of ripening 

 full a week or ten days later than the above-named varieties, thereby 

 keeping up the supply of strawberries until raspberries appear. 



Nicanor, excellent to eat of, and very productive, but too small for mar- 

 ket, therefore of little value here, as we aim to cultivate the kind of fruit that 

 brings the most money in market, thinking that is good enough for home use. 



Dr. Nicaise, not productive enough to be retained in cultivation. 



Napoleon III., large and productive, but not a bright red color to please 

 the eyes of purchasers : so it will not be much grown here. 



6th Mo , 30, 1869. 



A SPOILED CHILD. 



Perhaps no fruit in the domain of horticulture has ever had a fairer 

 trial, at least in this part of the country, than the strawberry La Constante. 

 Its whims and humors have been consulted so far as possible, and every 

 thing has been done to make it justify its name. 



But it is proverbially fickle. Up to the very time of the fruit's ripening, 

 the cultivator can hardly tell whether he is to have any fruit or not. 



Sometimes the leaves burn, and sometimes, at the last moment, the fruit 

 refuses to mature. 



A little bed of my own, containing two hundred good plants, in rich, strong 

 soil, gave every promise this season of making a fair return for the pro- 

 tection, weeding, hoeing, and guano it had received. Yet, after all, the 

 only product of the bed was a few deformed, stumpy berries ; the whole two 

 hundred plants not furnishing a single handsome fruit. y. M. M., yun. 



