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them. They grew and blossomed very fine, and I thought I should have 

 some mammoth fruit; but there was not a perfect berry on them, and 

 very few imperfect. The next year I put male plants among them, and 

 they bore beyond my expectation, — and I now think Hovey's Seedling is 

 the best market strawberry tliat we have ; it is a free grower, a great 

 bearer, and the berries very large, — but they would not be worth growing 

 here without the male plants among them. 



Last spring I had about one hundred Hovey's Seedling in a border, 

 without any male plants near them. They flowered as fine as could be 

 wished, but there was only three perfect fruit on them, and tiiose three I 

 impregnated. 



There are many varieties that are perfect in the same flower, but I 

 never saw one that was worth cultivating for its fruit. I do not think that 

 an acre of ground, planted with Hovey's Seedling, Keen's Seedling, Hud- 

 son, and Elton, without male plants among them, would produce one 

 bushel of fruit. 1 one year picked thirty bushels of the Hudson straw- 

 berry from thirty square rods of ground ; they were about one tenth male 

 plants. 



I have grown strawberries from the seed, and in all cases they came 

 about one half male plants. Now what are these male plants intended 

 for ? they never change. The male plant that I use for my beds I have 

 had for eighteen years, and I do not see the least alteration in it. — Yours, 

 Respectfully, S. S. Jackson, near Cincinnati, Sept. 24, 1844. 



Art. IV. Massachusetts HoHicultural Society. 



September 21. An adjourned meeting was held, the President in the 

 chair. 



Francis L. Capen, of South Boston, and A. B. Muzzey, of Cambridge, 

 were admitted members. 



Adjourned to Saturday, Sept. 28th. 



Sept. 28. The Society held an adjourned meeting. 



Voted, that a committee of three be chosen, to nominate a list of can- 

 didates for officers of the Society for the ensuing year; and Messrs. E. M. 

 Richards, C. Newhall, and E. Wight, were appointed. 



Voted, that the thanks of the Society be presented to Mr. M. B. Clark, 

 of Boston, for his liberal donation of the Silver Plate, which was deposited 

 under the corner stone of the Society's new Hall in School street. 



Voted, that the thanks of the Society be presented to the Chairman and 

 members of the Committee of Arrangements, for the very acceptable man- 

 ner in which they discharged their duty at the late annual exhibition. 



Meeting dissolved. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : A variety of fine dahlias, from the garden of the 

 President of the Society — among them. Antagonist, Lady Antrobus, Hero 

 of Stonehenffe, Miranda, Great Western, Beauty of Sussex, and Blanche 

 Shelley, were extra flowers. 



J. Stickney exhibited, among others, very fine blooms of Essex Tri- 

 umph, Dodd's Prince of Wales, Pickwick, Argo, Miranda, Oakley's Sur- 

 prise, Sir F. .Johnson, and Bridesmaid. 



From H. W. Button, a great variety — Henry Clay, Burnham Hero, , 

 Princess Royal, Queen, Admiral Stopford and Essex Triumph were very 



