JUNE. 291 



And again: "Fear not, Mr. Hovey, your own favorite, with all its faults, 

 has a world-wide celebrity, and beauty enough to carry it through great op- 

 position. It has and will prevail as widely as any strawberry can ever ex- 

 pect to prevail." 



In the Patent Office Report for 1851, we find a statement of the fruits 

 grown in Ohio, made by our fellow citizens Messrs. A. H. Ernst, John A. 

 Warder, and Robert Buchanan, addressed to the American Pornological 

 Society, at their meeting in Boston, September, 1854, in which they say of 

 strawberries, that from five thousand to six thousand bushels are in some 

 seasons in the Cincinnati market ; that the most popular varieties at present 

 are Burr's New Pine, Hovey's Seedling, Extra Red, Hudson, Jenny's Seed- 

 ling, Longworth's Prolific, McAvoy's Superior, Necked Pine and No. 1. 



William Saunders, of Philadelphia, in the March number of the Horticul- 

 turist, 1856, in his calendar of operations in regard to strawberries, says: 

 *' After all, it is a question whether any variety can excel Hovey's Seedling 

 for general purposes." 



In concluding the testimony we copy the published statement of the crop 

 of John C. Youtcy, of Campbell County, Kentucky, as it appeared in the 

 Horticulturist of July, 1855, as exhibiting the comparative productiveness 

 and profitableness of the three varieties mostly grown for this market: — 

 "Two acres of Washington, thirty bushels per acre, sixty bushels, average 

 $7, or $420 ; three acres of Hudson, thirty-four bushels per acre, one hun- 

 dred and twenty bushels, average $5.20, or $530 ; five acres Washington 

 and Hudson, one hundred and sixty-two bushels, #950 ; five acres of Hov- 

 ey's Seedling, thirty-five and two fifths per acre, one hundred and seventy- 

 eight bushels, average $7.08, $1200." 



The minority of your committee feel conscious that additional testimony 

 is unnecessary to convince any reflecting mind that the subject of strawber- 

 ries, and the best varieties for general cultivation, has engaged the attention 

 of horticulturists in every part of our Union for several years past; and in 

 reviewing the testimony which we have here presented you cannot but have 

 observed a concurrence in the sentiment that McAvoy's Superior, from its 

 dullness of color and softness of berry, cannot with propriety be recom- 

 mended as a market fruit, while the delicious flavor it possesses is admitted 

 by all who have proved it to be second only to Burr's New Pine, while by 

 some it is claimed superior to all others, and from the testimony of Messrs. 

 Barry and Bateham, who visited Cincinnati last June expressly to see these 

 far-famed varieties — the Superior and the Prolific — that they are no -where 

 to be found except in the hands of a few amateurs; Hovey's Seedling beino- 

 the largest, handsomest, highest priced and more generally cultivated for 

 market than any other variety. It will also be observed that an equal area 

 of Hovey's Seedling produced ten per cent, larger crops than the Hudson 

 and Iowa, and sold in the market for thirty per cent, higher prices than 

 these varieties, with all the advantages of the early maturity of the Iowa, 

 and the consequent high price paid for the first fruit of the season. 



The minority of your committee are also of opinion that there are many 

 varieties of strawberries more hardy and infinitely more productive than the 



