SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



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lonq-woeth's pp.olifio. 



honor of Nicholas Longworth, 



Esq. It is a great favorite with 



the gentleman whose name it 



bears, who says "it will do 



what no other varietj^ in this 



country or Europe has ever 



done — bear a full crop of good 



fruit standing alone." In a 



note to Mr. Barry in the fall of 



1853, he says, "You will find the Prohjic of more 



value than all the seedlings ever raised." Mr. Elliott, 



in his Guide, says, "For market culture we regard it 



of more value than McAvoy's Superior ;" and we have 



heard Dr. Warder bear the same high testimony to its 



excellence. 



It has been almost impossible to get the genuine 

 variety. In our attempts, we have had repeated foil- 

 ures, until, at last, Mr. D. McAvoy politely took up 

 for us two plants, while in bearing, and enclosed them 

 in a letter. The plants lived, and we have been ena- 

 bled to experiment with them intelligently. AYe have 

 also seen the genuine in a few other gardens, hundreds 

 of miles apart, during the last two seasons ; and every- 

 Avhere we have seen it, if it had a fair chance, it has 

 done Avel]. Many will, doubtless, discard "Long- 

 worth's Prolific," who have only tried spurious kinds. 



Our limited experience will not enable us to speak 



