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THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



1871 



By J. Ravenscraft Jones, Brunswick county, Va., 

 Mason's Stranger, unripe, examined in February by 

 one member of the committee, who thinks highly 

 of it. 



Pilot — Unripe. 



Eight unnamed seedlings— Unripe. 



Dinwiddle— From W. W. Dinwiddle, Albemarle 

 county, Va. 



Brown's Seedlings— F. Davis & Co., Rockbridge 

 county, Va. 



Sharp— Chesterfield county, Va. ; summer apple; 

 tender, juicy, good. 



A Seedling— W. N. Dinwiddle, Albemarle coun- 

 ty, Va. ; lair-looking, unripe. 



Seedlings — H. B. Jones, Rockbridge county; some 

 fair-looking, but all unripe. 



Seedling — G. N. Purvis, Nelson county, Va. ; tair 

 looking, unripe. 



Via — By Dollius & Brother, Albemarle county, 

 Va. ; good. Also, by the same, fine. 



Yancy Prize — Good to very good. 



Matilde — Good to very good. 



Ragland — Very good. 



Baker — By Parker Earle, Cobden, 111. 



Red Sweet Pippin — By Parker Earle, Cobden, 

 Illinois. 



Nebraska Seedling, No. 1 — Col. Furnas. 



Nemaha — Brownsville county; "good." 



Nebraska Seedling, No. 2 — Col. Furnas ; scarcely 

 good, 



Nebraskian — J. H. Masters, Nebraska City; good. 



Garden Beauty — By P. A. Jewell, Minneapolis, 

 Minn. ; good. 



Forest Queen — By the same ; good. 



Kansas Queen — Raised by Batkinson, and exhib- 

 ited by Dr. Stayman, Leavenworth; very hand- 

 some ; quality good ; over-ripe ; promising well. 



Kansas Belleflower — Dr. Stayman ; very good. 



Kansas Pippin — Dr. Stayman. 



Whitescarver — J. Saul, from Rappahannock co., 

 Virginia. 



PEABS. 



Twenty-four seedlings from F. & L. Clapp, Bos- 

 ton, Mass., of promising character but flavor im- 

 paired by the packing material. 



PEACHES. 



Five seedling clings from G. W. Purvis, Nelson 

 county, Va. Not ripe. 



A large qimntity seedlings from Mr. Linderman, 

 Grand Rapids, Michigan, but no number or names 

 by which any one can be referred to. 



Ln eastern market gardener claims that the 

 time he has bestowed upon his garden this year will 

 pay him $30 a day. 



\tsit% antr SUaniiijgs. 



Seedling Stranrberrles. 



Some of our cotemporaries and their correspon- 

 dents are doing some big talk over new seedling 

 strawberries. We are enabled to put in an appear- 

 ance in that direction also. Mrs. F. R. West, of 

 this city, who gives her personal attention to one of 

 the best kept fruit gardens in the State, has 

 two or three seedling strawberries that are very 

 promising. We are not one of those who 

 jump at conclusions — to lay hands hastily on any 

 new fruit, or any other new thing, but will here 

 say, that we were never more favorably impres.sed 

 with a new fruit than with two of Mrs. West's new 

 seedling strawberries. They are from a collection 

 of fifteen plants, raised from the seed of a single 

 berry four years ago. 



The accompanying engraving fairly represents 

 the best one of these two berries, except it should 

 be a little broader at the apex. The berries are 

 flattened, very much like Triumphe de Gand. Sur- 

 face smooth, glossy, rich, deep red ; flesh white, of 

 very fine texture and flavor ; plant perfectly hardy 

 with no winter protection ; a rampant grower ; fo- 

 liage large and luxuriant ; fruit stems very long and 

 stout — ripening their fruit high up from the 

 ground, clean and nice ; season same as Wilson. 



The other berry is rather larger, but not so well 

 flavored, of a pale red (much like Dowuer's Prolific 

 in color and shape). We think, however, for mar- 

 ket, it will prove more valuable than the other, 

 from the fact of its coming in after other sorts are 

 out of season. This last season it afforded good 

 picking for a week or ten days after Wilson had en- 

 tirely disappeared. We look with much interest 

 for Mrs. West's experience with these berries an. 

 other season. 



