elites may all be deemed moderate bearers, except where vre have denoted 

 otherwise. In selecting an impregnator to plant among- Pistillatcs, it is 

 the better course to select a productive Hermaphrodite variety, as this 

 will prevent any loss of space. 



The remark* often made that Strawberries should not be highly ma- 

 nured, or that they should be grown on poor soil, are utterly erroneous. 

 High manuring for some unproductive Hermaphrodites may have a 

 greater tendency to develops their natural and peculiar character of 

 throwing out masses of runners, but, as regards the Female or Pistillate 

 plants which have been specially and physically designed for the produc- 

 tion of fruit, the stimulus of high manuring cannot do otherwise than 

 greatly increase the production of fruit — the nature of the female plant 

 not being to waste itself in bloom and runners, but to perfect the greater 

 crop of its berries. * 



The Hermaphrodites or Staminates intended for impregnating, should 

 }>e planted in distinct rows or beds, and not among the Pis filiates, as the 

 more rapid increase of the former would soon cause the bods to be over- 

 run with them. 



Independently of the Alpine class, there are several varieties which 

 produce a moderate second crop of fruit when grown in a moist soil and 

 irrigated. These are Nos. 6, 76, 82 and 110, all of which by ample irri- 

 gation, may be made to produce fruit here during the hot months ; and 

 at the South, where the heat is so much prolonged, they become perpetual 

 bearers when subjected to permanent regular irrigations, and especially 

 so on the banks of the Mississippi, where the soil is saturated. 



In regard to hardihood, all the varieties here enumerated will with- 

 . stand the winters of the most Northern States by simply covering the 

 beds with four inches of straw, sedge, hay, or with leaves, or leaf-mould 

 from the forest, by which the danger of the plants freezing out is pre- 

 vented. Spent tan may be used as a winter covering, to the depth of 

 three or four inches ; but it should be removed very early in the Spring, 

 or it will materially injure the crop. In this latitude we find no cover- 

 ing necessary, except for beds planted just before the winter sets in. We 

 plant successfully from June to December. No plant is more sure of 

 auceess by the simplest culture, than the Strawberry. 



CHINESE POTATO OR YAM— DIOSCOREA. 



This most valuable, nutricious, and productive of all Esculents is now 

 under succossful culture by ■evoral thousand persona, and being perfectly 

 hardy and ©f the easiest culture, and far superior in quality to all other 

 Potatoes, it cannot fail to be duly appreciated by all who' fairly test it* 

 merits. Every attack upon this plant has arisen from ignorance or malic*, 

 which leads persona to condemn without investigation. In France the Ag- 

 ricultural Societies have awarded their Gold Medals to its cultivators, and 

 all opposition has yieldod to 'the triumphant results of investigation and 

 truth, and now this* Vegetable is regularly vended in their public market*. 

 The Hon. Henry Meigs, Secretary of the American Institute has made five 

 triumphant Reports en its successful culture, and its transcendant merite, 

 as the most nutritious food for man ; Dr. Hollick of Now York, Dr. Welling- 

 ~ ton of Jamestown, N. Y., and others have rendered to it the highest encomi- 

 ^"- »ms in their published statements, and the American Institute has twiee 

 awarded their Silver Medal to Mr. Prince for the splendid specimens he has 

 exhibited. On the 1st October the deduced Prices will be aunounced. 



