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the culture of the strawberry ; for, he has probably seen, 

 although the official report has not been published, that the 

 Congress of Fruit Growers, at New York, out of all the great 

 number of strawberries which had been fully proved, up to 

 1849, only recommended three for general cultivation. 

 These were the Early Virginia, Boston Pine, and Hovey's 

 Seedling ; — the identical sorts we recommended five years 

 previous, and for doing which, we were accused by Mr. 

 Longworth and other cultivators, of a conceitedness and par- 

 tiality for our own seedlings, and a disparagement of those 

 produced by other cultivators. After the unanimous vote of 

 an assemblage of pomologists, from almost every state in the 

 Union, and the Canadas, establishing the value and superiority 

 of the very three varieties we so long ago recommended, we 

 trust our western friends, as well as others, nearer home, 

 will admit that their judgment is worth something, and that 

 we had no other motive in asserting the excellence of our 

 seedlings, but the intrinsic merits which characterize the 

 two varieties. 



The Culture of the Plum, and the Destruction or 

 THE CuRcuLio. — lu our last, we copied some valuable infor- 

 mation on the plum, from the Report of the North American 

 Pomological Convention. The cultivation of the plum is 

 yearly receiving more attention, and could the ravages of the 

 Curiculio be easily prevented, the crop would soon be as 

 abundant as that of other fruits. It is gratifying to know- 

 that more attention is being directed to the habits of the 

 Curculio, and, we do not doubt, some more effective mode, 

 than any we now know, will be discovered, by which their 

 destructiveness will be greatly lessened. It cannot be de- 

 nied, however, that thus far, of all the plans suggested for 

 limiting their ravages, not one can claim so much merit as 

 that oi shaking them from the trees daily, during the whole 

 period, when they make their attacks upon the fruit. All 

 the barbarous plans of disfiguring a garden, by paving it with 

 bricks or stones, — making it a pig pen, or henery, — saturating 

 the soil with guano or salt, and numberless other modes, too 

 numerous to mention, suggested by those who are novices 



