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Crystal Palace — (Nicholson's.) — This is a seedling raised 

 by the same grower who produced the Ajax, Capt. Cook, and 

 Fillbasket. It is entirely unlike either of them, being large, 

 with very conical-shaped berries of a most brilliant glossy 

 scarlet color, very showy. It is of extremely vigorous 

 growth, perfectly hardy, and requires the thin cultivation 

 recommended for the Omer Pacha. Owing to the mass of 

 plants in our bed it did not produce half the quantity of the 

 Sir Harry or Admiral Dundas. In single rows, with plenty 

 of space between, we have no doubt it would prove a supe- 

 rior variety. 



Fruit, large, very conical and pretty regular in shape ; 

 color, brilliant glossy scarlet ; seeds, slightly imbedded ; flesh, 

 light colored, firm, fine grained, juicy and high flavored ; calyx, 

 large. Mr. Nicholson writes us that it will prove one of the 

 finest strawberries in cultivation. 



New Hautbois Strawberry. — Mr. C. A. Peabody, of Co- 

 lumbus, Ga., who has been so successful in the cultivation of 

 Hovey's Seedling, informs us he has raised a new seedling of 

 great merit. He has forwarded us a drawing of the fruit, an 

 engraving from which we shall present to our readers in 

 another number. In his letter accompanying this he thus 

 speaks of his new variety : — 



" Having now fully tested my new seedling and being 

 satisfied that it is a salamander in regard to heat, and a 

 Greenlander in regard to cold, as productive as your famous 

 seedling, larger and more beautiful, excelling Burr's New 

 Pine in flavor, and surpassing all others in its keeping quali- 

 ties, I have had an exact copy of the fruit stem, with a leaf 

 of the plant drawn and painted, as they were growing on 

 the bed. 



" If agreeable to you I will furnish a full description to ac- 

 company an engraving of it for your Magazine." 



In another letter Mr. Peabody speaks of its keeping quali- 

 ties, which are so great that he sent the berries to New 

 York, a distance of 1200 miles, and one week after they 

 were picked they had scarcely shown any appearance of de- 

 cay. As Mr. Peabody's article will give a full account of it, 



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