444 Remarks on the Apple Culture in America. 



which, we trust, our correspondent will not omit to send us, 

 agreeably to his intimations. 



In regard to the strawberry, we should have no objection 

 to publish the article by Mr. Keen, were it not familiar to 

 many of our readers, and that it refers wholly to the Haut- 

 bois strawberry, a variety which is universally acknowledged 

 as dioecious. If, however, we find an opportunity, we will 

 give Mr. Keen's remarks in a future number. We do not 

 think that one word can be found in any thing Mr. Keen 

 ever wrote in relation to strawberries, about the dioecious 

 character of any other variety than the Hautbois, though our 

 friend, Mr. Longworth, continually insists upon the male 

 and female plants of Keen's Seedling. 



It has always been our greatest wish to see the strawberry 

 extensively cultivated, and we believe all will give us the 

 credit for this, after the many years devoted to their culture, 

 and the production of two seedlings which are of such ac- 

 knowledged merit. Our views upon the unsettled question, 

 of sterile and fertile plants, have already been given, on sev- 

 eral occasions, and in regard to our Seedling, more particu- 

 larly at p. 293. We there stated, that from some cause, 

 whatever it might be, in certain soils and seasons, it would 

 not produce fruit unless placed near some staminate variety, 

 and we always advised the planting of such in near proxim- 

 ity ; being convinced that a large and certain crop of fruit 

 would be the result. It is in this view that we look upon 

 the Boston Pine as quite invaluable, as this variety and the 

 Seedling produced an immense crop side by side, and at least 

 Jive hundred feet from any other strawberry. — Ed. 



Akt. II. Some remarks on the most favorable climate for the 

 Apple Culture in America, loith observations on some erro- 

 neous descriptions of fruits, in The Fi'uit and Fruit Trees 

 of America, and a notice of several native apples, originated 

 in Ohio. By T. S. Humrickhouse, Coshocton, Ohio. 



The gratification, with which Do wning's new work, " The 

 Fruits and Fruit Trees of America^'' has been received by 



