152 TRiiKSACTIONS OF THE AMITRICAN' msTTrCTE, 



MR. PRINCESS COLLECTION, 



Wm. R. Prince exhibited fifteen varieties, of eadi of wfiiefi he 

 gave a history, ranch to the interest and satisfaction of the clul). 

 One of these, the Ladies' Pine, he considered the hest in flavor. 

 It is of small size and not a great hearer. As to the color of the 

 strawherry, he considers that the hest that is most pleasing to 

 the eye. He said that he has now growing in his garden 150 

 named varieties. The following is a list of them : Strawheiries 

 presented by Wm, K. Prince to-day : Prince's Scarlet Magnate^ 

 the heaviest of all strawberries ; Prince's Scarlet Climax ; Prince's 

 Excelsior ; Perfumed Pine, very high flavored; Le Baron, very 

 high jflavored; Ladies' Pine, highest flavored; Seraphine ; Yic- 

 torine; Sappho; Globose Scarlet; Imperial Scarlet; Htmtsmais 

 Montevideo ; Florence ; White Alpine ; Wilson's Albany, 



He stated that all the large strawberries grown in Europe 

 originated from American varieties, 



fuller's seedlings, 



E, G, Pardee. — ^I was at Mr, Fuller's garden in BrooMyn last 

 Friday, and examined over a hundred sorts of seedling strawber- 

 ries, and marked about thirty as worthy of cultivation. I was 

 accompanied by several strawberry growers, who were highly 

 pleased with the exhibition ; and I now call upon Mr, Fuller to 

 make a statement of his experiments, 



Mr. Fuller then made an exhibition of one hundred and five 

 distinct varieties of his seedlings, which originated from the 

 Peabody, the Wilson, the Hovey, and a few others. Some of 

 these are a decided improvement upon the originals. Generally,, 

 seedlings are small, but many of those exhibited were very large,, 

 and Mr, Fuller stated that some of them were quite prolific. 

 Certainly, several of them were of a very beautiful color and 

 excellent flavor. One seedling, exhibited last year as the Bart- 

 lett, is now called the Brooklyn seedling. This is a very fine 

 berry, and a great bearer. 



This exhibition of seedlings by Mr. Fuller was a very inte- 

 resting feature of the exhibition, and his remarks were highly 

 instructive. He said that to procure seed he takes the best 

 berries he can get, and mixes them with sand, and then rubs the 

 sand and berries together till the mashed berry and sand are 

 thoroughly mixed, which he sows in a bed. When the plants 

 are large enough, they are transplanted to the bearing beds, and 



