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of unfruitfulness, we put some decayed turf, or fresh loamy 

 soil against them, in order that they may strike freely into 

 it, which they immediately do, as the season of growth is at 

 its height. The food supplied by the new roots during the 

 autumn will have nothing crude in it, but will supply sap of 

 a kind calculated to form fruit buds. In soils where the 

 pear bears well naturally, without all this labor, it will be 

 superfluous to meddle with it ; but hundreds will be glad to 

 avail themselves of a simple, quick, and certain means of 

 ensuring fruit buds in a month or two, where there was 

 before nothing but masses of watery, fruitless shoots. 



Art. III. Pomological Gossip. 



New Varieties of Strawberries. The season just past 

 has been a most favorable one for strawberries in this vi- 

 cinity. Owing to the constant and heavy rains during April 

 and May, and even into June, the crop has been more 

 abundant than any previous year. This has, therefore, been 

 a favorable time to test the merits of some of the newer 

 kinds which have been so highly eulogized, some of them 

 as surpassing all others. The quantity of moisture, accom- 

 panied with moderately cool weather, has perfected the 

 growth of the largest sized fruit, though somewhat at the 

 sacrifice of flavor ; and the reputed large strawberries which 

 did not excel this year, may be considered as having failed 

 to sustain their reputation. In our ovv^n grounds we have 

 had Burr's New Pine, Richardson's Late and some others; 

 and a variety of kinds have been exhibited at the hall of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the principal col- 

 lection of which was sent by Mr. L. C. Eaton, of Provi- 

 dence, and embraced the following twenty-five kinds : — 



Gen. Jaquiemont, New York Hudson Bay, 



Scarlet Melting, Dundee, 



Rhode Island Hudson Bay, Crimson Cone, 



Cincinnati Hudson Bay, Myatt's Eliza, 



