100 Notes and Gleanings. 



We rather like dahlias, however, in spite of their stiff rosette flowers ; but 

 we glory in hollyhocks, and are as fond of them as are the " bumble " bees. 

 How effective they are in the landscape ! what delicate tints they give us ! Old- 

 fashioned flowers with modern improvements, good, welcome, and showy, either 

 as the tall spikes of single flowers, or the glowing masses of color the double 

 varieties give us. Bismarck. 



Strawberries in Rochester, N.Y. — We are indebted to a friend for the 

 following interesting notes received by him from one of the largest growers in 

 Rochester : — 



" The cool, wet weather has been favorable for size and quantity, but not for 

 quality. 



" Triomphe de Gand has kept at the head, taking size, beauty, quality, &c., into 

 account. Jucunda, in size and beauty, has been wonderful. Napoleon III., 

 ripening now (July 8), is superb. Empress Eugenie, monstrous in size, but very 

 irregular in form, and too dark. The foreign sorts have done better, owing to 

 the peculiar season, than we have ever had them before. 



" Ida, among the American sorts, promises well. Charles Downing is vigor- 

 ous, productive, and of fair size, but hardly worth keeping. Nicanor was first 

 in the market, and got the highest prices. Colfax is a curiosity, a monstrosity 

 in size of plant and quantity of fruit ; but the berries are small, and it will not 

 rank among useful sorts. Michigan is a strong-growing, productive sort, but 

 not destined to live long. We were out at Purdy & Johnston's, Palmyra, who 

 have twenty acres of strawberries fruiting. They send all to New York. 



" The weather is so wet, we cannot subdue the weeds ; but every thing grows 

 apace. The fruit-crop looks well.'' 



Seed-Clubs. — The Canada farmers are forming themselves into seed-clubs, 

 each one of the club to raise choice seeds of some kind for the rest of the 

 members. A good idea. 



Early Rose Potatoes. — A market-gardener near Boston paid thirty dollars 

 la§t spring for a barrel of Early Rose Potatoes. From tire produce, he has al- 

 ready sold a hundred and twenty bushels, at from two dollars to two dollars and 

 fifty cents per bushel, and has a large quantity still on hand. 



What Careful Cultivation will do. — An English farmer, by picking 

 over his seed-wheat with the utmost care, and planting a grain in a place, at in- 

 tervals of a foot each way, produced a hundred and sixty-two bushels to the acre. 



The Harrison Potato. — Mr. Editor, — In the July number, p. 12, you 

 give an opinion, that, in quality, this potato is below the standard required in 

 a good table-potato. I am very glad to see this opinion expressed in your Jour- 

 nal, as it fully agrees with my own. Last fall, I put in for family use only 

 this variety, and, at the price paid, found it the most expensive kind I ever used, 

 besides being deficient in quality. T. 



