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grown, in size, flavor and productiveness, or, unless they 

 have some peculiarity of lateness or early ripening, it will be 

 best to say nothing- about them ; for we have several kinds 

 already that are worth raising, and are not confined to a 

 selection of four sorts, as some suppose, namely, Hovey's 

 Pistillate, Boston Pine, Wood, and Scarlet, the three latter of 

 which are here condemned as unproductive, being staminates. 



A. H. Ernst, 



Geo. Graham, 



S. S. Jackson, 



John Lea, \ Committee. 



N. Shaler, 



S. MOSHER, 



J. A. Warder. ^ 



(From Downing's Horticulturist.) 

 TWO EXPERIMENTS MADE TO TEST MR. LONGWORTH'S STRAW- 

 BERRY THEORY. 



Taking Hovey's Seedling as a subject, I procured a bell- 

 glass, and placed it over an entire plant which had not 

 bloomed. The flowers expanded well under the glass, but 

 did not produce one berry. The plant was frequently agi- 

 tated tc put the pollen in motion, if there was any. 



I also introduced under a glass some blossom buds before 

 they had blown. These, as they successively expanded, 

 showed no signs of swelling. I impregnated, at different 

 times, two of the blossoms by hand, applying the pollen 

 from another plant with a camel's hair pencil. These two 

 set their fruit perfectly. The pistils of the other blossoms 

 soon turned to a dark color. These experiments were made 

 at the north side of a picket fence, where the plants were 

 screened from the full eff"ects of the sun, otherwise the heat 

 under the glasses would have been too great. 



These experiments prove, to my mind, very conclusively, 

 that Hovey's Seedling will not bear any fruit unless impreg- 

 nated by some staminate variety. And the same may be 



