Domestic Notices. 237 



Hovey's Seedling as a Forcing Strawberry. — At a recent meeting 

 of tlie Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, some fine specimens of strawber- 

 ries were exhibited, from tlie garden of the President, Caleb Cope, Esq., com- 

 prising the following varieties : — Hovey's Seedling, British Queen, Buist's 

 Early May, Keen's Seedling, Sciota and Gushing. Mr. Daniels, the gar- 

 dener, stated, that the " British Queen, though a staminate variety, exhibits 

 in flavor and prolificncss a decided superiority over the others, and can be 

 strongly recommended for forcing. Hovey's Seedling, Early May, and 

 Keen's Seedling, are all good for forcing. The Burr's New Pine Avas tried, 

 but did not succeed well." Mr. Strong, of Brighton, has exhibited, on sev- 

 eral occasions, tlie present spring, some excellent specimens of Hovey's 

 Seedling, tlius proving it to be excellent for forcing. — Ed. 



Clinton County Agricultural Society, N. Y. — This society, re-or- 

 ganized last year, holds its eighth annual exhibition the coming fall, at 

 Keeseville, N. Y., and offers very liberal premiums for agricultural, horti- 

 cultural, and floricultural objects. The premiums for fruits, are principally 

 books, and among them, we are happy to learn, are copies of the Fruits of 

 America, and Magazine of Horticulture. The premium for the best and most 

 extensive collection of fruits, is a complete Volume, of 12 Numbers, of the 

 former work. As Clinton county is celebrated for its fine fi-uit, we do not 

 doubt, should the season be favorable, tliat the show will be exceedingly 

 interesting. We wish tlie society every success. 



American Seedling Verbenas. — A writer in the Horticulturist, states, 

 that " it is not to be denied that most of our Seedling verbenas are not 

 worthy a place in our gardens." Rather a wholesale remark, and before 

 asking any one to believe it, it would have been well to have stated what op- 

 portunity the writer had had for acquiring so much information. However, he 

 tells his means of knowing, by stating that the best ones are, J, K. Polk, 

 Buist's Eclipse, Boll's Major Ringgold, and Hogg's Bicolor Grand iflora, 

 and, in the absence of a better, White Queen. Of sixteen varieties he 

 has, he intends to throw all away and confine himself to ten alone, includ- 

 ing Defiance, Anacreon, Satellite, and Rosy Morn, which he considers the 

 best in the country." Now, this shows tliat the writer knows nothing about 

 the GOOD American verbenas. We cultivate fifty named varieties, ex- 

 clusive of all he names, some of which, we venture to assert, are superior 

 to any, — and, we belive, the greater part, — that have been imported. Some 

 of these are Weld's Susanna, Barnes's Exquisite, Conner's Eximia, Ell- 

 wanger & Barry's Henry Clay, Brunette, and our own Seedlings Eclipse, 

 Othello, Suzette, Gem, Anne Maria, Eliza, Apollo, and some others ; as 

 two-colored sorts, the first three surpass any thing from England, and as a 

 white, nothing has been seen Avhich will compare in purity of color with Su- 

 zette. Robinson's Defiance we have only seen under unfa'orable circum- 

 stances, in pot cultivation ; but, as to Beauty Supreme, except its large truss- 

 es, it is inferior to half of tlie fifty varieties we have. Eclipse has so far been 

 the best scarlet in cultivation ; but Robinson's Defiance may surpass it. We, 

 therefore, advise writers, before tliey make such statements as we have 

 quoted, to obtain some of the best American Seedlings, and not undertake 



