388 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



Hovey in serving his guests with unhulled strawberries — a neatness which 

 we wish was more general, believing it would prove more acceptable than 

 to receive them hulled by hands of the cleanliness of which we are happily 

 ignorant. [Those marked with an asterisk * are English.] 



*Fillbasket (Nicholson's.) Excellent for general cultivation — large and 

 good. 



*Victoria — Good for an amateur. 



*Ajax — Large, very dark, desirable. 



*Goliah — Large. 



*Sir Harry — Large, well-flavored, good bearer, and desirable for an 

 amateur. 



♦Admiral Dundas — Coxcomb shape, berries extra size, and of good 

 flavor, eighteen to the pound, desirable for an amateur. 



*Crystal Palace — Vigorous grower, prolific in runners, berries showy. 



*Prince of Wales — (Ingram's) — Large and fine for forcing. 



♦Myatt's Surprize — Large. 



*Omer Pacha — Extra fine flavor, desirable for general cultivation. 



*Capt. Cook — (Nicholson's) — Large, flavor good, bears well. 



*Ruby — Not over desirable. 



*Scarlet Nonpareil — Promises well. 



*Sir Charles Napier — Large and excellent. 



*Two Hundred Fold — Not well tried. 



*Bicton Pine — Desirable for a white variety. 



*Rivers' Eliza — High flavored, but too pale to warrant a general cul- 

 tivation. 



Monroe's Scarlet — A good bearer. 



Jenny Lind — Handsome, last gatherings always good ; this season about 

 as early as Virginia and Boston Pine. 



Scott's Seedling — This, as well as the preceding, will always prove at- 

 tractive and well-flavored. 



Durfee's Seedling — Quite large, a dark variety. 



Hooper's Seedling — Worthless. 



Hovey's Seedling — After 22 years' trial, the most desirable for general 

 cultivation. 



McAvoy's Superior — Others much more acceptable. 



Boston Pine — Early, of good flavor, and when not closely grown, proves 

 prolific. 



Black Prince — (Cuthill's) — Not worthy cultivation. 



Other varieties in process of cultivation, but not fully enough developed 

 to speak of this season. 



Saturday, June 28. — Vegetables : The exhibition of Vegetables had 

 but a small proportion of the interest that this department should have had 

 with our present facilities. New varieties of early vegetable seed are 

 offered to test the skill of the practical and scientific gardener, adapting 

 them to our climate and soils, by naturalization or artificial means, while it 

 is true that fruits offer to the dessert a rich addition ; while extensive or- 

 chards and large graperies cover our grounds, and flowers of every hue 



