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fruit, much of which was as large as is usually produced in the open 

 ground; the quality was as good as possible in good varieties: as for indif- 

 ferent sorts, their bad quality was exactly what it always is — neither better 

 nor worse. 



Specimens of this mode of cultivation, just beginning to ripen, were 

 shown in Regent Street on the 27th of May. The average number of per- 

 fect fruits, ripe and ripening, on each plant, was as follows : — Keens' Seed- 

 ling 26, Myatt's Eliza 24, Hericart de Thury 29, Princess Alice Maude 33, 

 Cole's Prolific 37, Ingram's Prince of Wales 45, Hooper's Seedling 45, 

 Royal Pine 49, Reine Hortense 56, Cuthill's Black Prince 79. 



Thus it appears that it is possible in strawberry forcing to save half the 

 time, half the quantity of earth and manure, half the space occupied in the 

 forcing house, and much of the cost of pots and labor, without in any way 

 diminishing the quantity or quality of the fruit. 



The strawberry is not the only garden crop to which this principle is 

 more or less applicable. Blind routine may be beaten in more ways than 

 one. {Card. Chron., 1856, p. 387.) 



UNITED STATES AGRICDLTURAL. 



This Society will hold its Fourth Annual Exhibition at Powelton, Phila- 

 delphia, on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th of October next. 



The Schedule of Prizes has been published, and the large amount of 

 $12,000 is offered for various Agricultural, Horticultural, and Mechanical 

 articles. The prizes for fruits are very liberal, and as it is the desire of 

 the Society that this Exhibition should be a fine one, it is hoped many of the 

 cultivators of New York and Massachusetts will contribute. We publish 

 the List of Premiums for Fruits, as follows : — 



CLASS VII. FRUITS. 



All fruits must be arranged on the tables by 9 o'clock, of Tuesday 

 morning. 



All fruits offered in competition must be grown by the competitor. 



Fruits receiving a premium in one class cannot compete in another. 



Judges may withhold premiums, when fruits of sufficient merit are not 

 presented. 



Fruits once placed on the tables are under the control of the judges, and 

 cannot be removed until the close of the Exhibition. 



Exhibitors must present to the Secretary a list of the fruit exhibited, with 

 the names of the fruit, and a certificate when required that the same was 

 groion by the exhibitor. 



Apples. — For the largest and best exhibition of named varieties, 



not less than three specimens of each, . . . $50 



For the second best, . . . . . .30 



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