Pomological Gossip. 



357 



Deptford Pine, 

 Taylor's Seedling, 

 Burr's New Pine, 

 Cattrugh's Seedling, No. 8, 



(English,) 

 Cuttrugh's Seedling, No. 6, 

 Ohio Mammoth, 

 Old Pine, 

 Rival Hudson. 



Mottier's Seedling, 



Columbia, 



Myatt's Prolific, 



Black Prince, 



Scioto, 



Princess Alice Maude, 



Profusion, 



Jenney's Seedling, 



Princess Royal, (French,) 



Duke of Kent, 



The report of the fruit committee, after tasting the above, 

 will be noticed in the proceedings of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety in another page, and we would prefer that their opin- 

 ion should be taken in preference to our own. 



So far, however, as our individual opinion goes, and we 

 examined and tasted the strawberries, we do not consider 

 one of the above sorts really worthy of cultivation. Any 

 cultivator, selecting his seed carefully from fine sorts, can 

 raise a hundred seedlings as good as any of the above, un- 

 less we except the Deptford Pine. At the time we raised 

 our seedlings, in 1834, we dug up whole beds of better ones. 

 Indeed, a crop of fine strawberries may be as easily raised 

 from seeds as a crop of melons. The French cultivators 

 always raise the Monthly Alpine as an annual, sowing the 

 seeds in the spring, and gathering the crop in the autumn, 

 and the berries are always large and fine. The other kinds 

 are no exception to the rule. 



It will be seen that there are three Hudson Bays in the list. 

 Of course only one could be true : that one was the New 

 York Hudson ; the Cincinnati and Rhode Island Hudsons 

 were misnomers. The Black Prince was certainly the poor- 

 est and most flavorless berry we ever tasted. Burr's New 

 Pine has a very pleasant, agreeable flavor when fully ripe, 

 but is deficient in color and too small to be of any value. 



Mr. Eaton certainly deserves the thanks of cultivators, 



for the expense and trouble of procuring, cultivating and 



• proving all these kinds, some of which were discarded 



twenty years ago ; but his experiment shows that all new 



