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Mr. H. E. Hooker thought Hovey's Seedling should not 

 be overlooked as an amateur variety. 



Mr. Geo. Newland stated that the Hovey's Seedling, so 

 much praised at Cincinnati, was not the Hovey's Seedling of 

 Mr. Hovey, but a spurious sort, though much superior ! 



Mr. P. Barry thought the Bush Alpine very desirable for 

 amateurs. 



Mr. H. E. Hooker had discarded the Bash Alpines. 



J. J. Thomas named the Early Virginia or large Early 

 Scarlet for market cultivation, and it was voted the best for 

 that purpose. 



Dr. Sylvester named Hovey's Seedling as the best. He 

 also stated that "so eagerly was the fruit sought for in mar- 

 ket, that while the Early Virginia was sold with difficulty 

 at one shilling per quart, crops of Hovey were engaged three 

 days before ripening at double the priced 



Mr. E. Smith, of Geneva, said, " little difference is found 

 between the price of large or small strawberries — both sell 

 the same per quart." 



Mr. Barry thought trenching important. 



Mr. E. Smith did not regard trenching o( 'much value. By 

 cultivating to a depth of three to six inches, and manuring, 

 you will get plenty of fruit. 



Mr. Thomas thought a great deal of the talk about pistil- 

 lates and staminates quite useless and mere theory. 



Mr. Smith never entertained the question of staminates and 

 pistillates ; it seemed to him quite unnecessary. 



The most important information we can gather from the 

 discussion is this, that all the pomologists of Europe and 

 America, for fifty years, have labored in vain, in the produc- 

 tion of new varieties of the strawberry. According to the 

 standard of the Western New York cultivators, the Old 

 Virginia is yet the most valuable strawberry ! or, in other 

 words, the best market berry — for we contend that the public 

 are entitled to be furnished with as good fruit as amateurs, if 

 they will pay for it, — and that no fruit can be the best for 

 market, and not the best for general cultivation. 



