144 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Andrew L. Fuller, of Brooklyn, exhibited several specimens 

 from his garden — among them the Jenny Lind, which is a very 

 earl}' berry — in fact, the earliest — and a very excellent fruit. 

 Another, exhibited as the Athlete, he said was nothing like what 

 it was recommended. The Wilson, fully ripe, he said is the most 

 productive, and will bear the most manure on the vines, and 

 most sugar on the fruit of any other. The Bartlett, a new 

 seedling, is a very productive sort, and good fruit. The flo.wer 

 is hermaphrodite. Mr. Fuller also exhibited thirty-two new 

 seedlings, many of them of very fine appearance and high flavor. 



Mr. Prince made a speech against the Wilson strawberry, con- 

 tending that it cannot be what the public generally esteem it. 

 He thinks that the Wilson produces too great an amount of 

 bloom, and that owing to the sourness of the fruit, it will be 

 superseded by some other. 



Mr. Carpenter contended that the sort of Wilson strawberries 

 grown by him were different and better than the sort grown by 

 Mr. Prince. 



John G. Bergen concurred in this opinion. With him, the 

 Wilson is the most prolific of all others, and productive when 

 grown in any manner, whether in hills or broadcast. 



Mr. Fuller exhibited five varieties, brought in by his brother, 

 who is foreman of T. W. Field, East Brooklyn, all ripe, to wit : 

 The Iowa, Wilson, Hovey, Peabody, and a kind cultivated for 

 the Hooker, but believed to be something else. Prof. Mapes said 

 it was the Myatts Eliza. He did not think it a choice kind. 

 The best of Mr. Fuller's exhibition were the Bartlett, and next 

 the Jenny Lind, both of which are excellent. The Scott's seed- 

 ling exhibited b}' Mr. Hite, were the best of that excellent 

 variety that we have tasted. There is something in his soil or 

 cultivation, that improves all his fruit. The Wilson straw- 

 berry exhibited by him would never be considered a sour variety 

 nor lacking flavor. 



Mr. Barnard, of Loirg Island, stated that he bought a thousand 

 plants of Mr. Prince, for Wilson's, and he fully corrobor-ated Mr. 

 Prince in the opinion that the sort of Wilson Strawberries that 

 he sells are not fit to cultivate ; it produces a most worthless 

 fruit. 



Wm. S. Carpenter. — Thousands of acres are now being planted 

 with strawberries, and the more that are planted the more fruit 

 will be in demand. The Austin seedling is the strongest growing 



