1 68 Notes and Gleanings. 



It IS so far a humbus; as to be pronounced by Mr. Charles Downing " the 

 best new kind he has seen " (and the Rural, by the way, in the very same column 

 from which we quote, calls Mr. Downing the best pomologist in the United 

 States) and to receive the emphatic indorsement of the Fruit Committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society after a critical and jealous examination of 

 the fruit and vines in three successive years. 



It has been fruited with great success this season, with a soil and treatment 

 entirely unlike Mr. Wilder's, and has been said by one of the most skilful straw- 

 berry-growers, '• as a cropper, to fully equal the Hovey as grown at Belmont." 

 We may add, that Belmont is the headquarters of strawberry-growing in this 

 vicinity ; that the Hovey is a great favorite there, and that five thousand boxes 

 per acre is considered only a moderate crop. 



Finally, lastly, and to conclude, there is something which looks to us very 

 much like inconsistency in the statement that the originator of such a humbug 

 "will live forever \n favorable recognizance by all American horticulturists." 



Pears from the South, — Well-grown Seckels were received in Boston 

 from Norfolk, Va., Aug. 9. 



The Early Rose Potato. — Among all who purchased seed of the Early 

 Rose at the high prices it commanded when first sent out, we do not know of 

 one who regrets his purchase ; but we have heard of more than one who regrets 

 that he had not secured more than he did. 



The Philadelphia Raspberry. — We learn that a farmer in Massachu- 

 setts, who planted a considerable number of the above raspberry, and gave them 

 no further care whatever, gathered an abundant crop, far beyond what such 

 careless cultivation deserved. In Boston market, however, when the large, fine 

 kinds sold readily at forty-five cents per quart at wholesale, the Philadelphia 

 could not be sold at thirty cents so long as the better kinds lasted. When 

 these were gone, the Philadelphias sold for twenty-five to thirty cents. 



Training Raspberries. — One of the best market-cultivators near Boston 

 finds the best method of training raspberries to be by tying them to a wire 

 stretched horizontally and fastened to posts. 



Louisiana Figs. — A large portion of the fig-crop of Louisiana has been 

 put in jars and cans hermetically sealed, this season, for the Northern market. 



California Pears. — A consignment of Bartlett pears from California arrived 

 in New York on Wednesday, Aug. 11, and were readily picked up (their novelty 

 no doubt enhancing their price) at fifty cents each. These pears weighed, on an 

 average, three-quarters of a pound each : they were fully ripe, and were opened 

 in excellent order, considering the tvFO weeks or more they had been in transit, 

 and also the fact, that, from Chicago eastward, they had come on as freight. 

 They were packed in cases, a hundred in each case, well wrapped in paper, and 

 appeared to have been gently treated in the transit. 



