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requires a great deal of water, or moist soil, and will 

 not bear so rich soil as Boston Pine and many other 

 kinds ; and the simple reduction of the soil to the com- 

 mon grade has sometimes changed the barren into pro- 1 

 ductive plants. It originated in 1834. The vines are 

 vigorous, leaves large in rich soil, rather light green, 

 and fruit-stalks are of good length. Fruit is very 

 large, roundish-oval, conical ; color, rich scarlet ; seeds 

 slightly imbedded ; firm flesh ; well adapted for market, 

 and of medium season ; flowers pistillate. 



MONROE SCAELET. 



This variety has not been so extensively known or 

 so largely tested as Hovey's Seedling and Burr's New 

 Pine. It originated in Rochester by those enterprising 

 nurserymen, Messrs. Elwanger & Barry, and was first 

 exhibited by them at the June meeting of the " Horti- 

 cultural Society of the Yalley of the Genesee," we 

 think in 1850, where we first saw it, and took a plant 

 borne with us. 



We introduce it in this connection, because we think 

 it will prove remarkably productive. Such has been 

 the case in our trials of it ; it has uniformly surpassed 

 all others in bearing. We have counted over seventy 

 ripe berries of good size, the largest measuring four 

 and three-fourths inches in circumference at one time, 

 on a single plant less than one year old. A friend 



