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cause it to be cast off, and such superior varieties as Liicas, Margueritte 

 Delices du palais, Orb, Lorio, Emma, Rietmeyer, Comtesse de Beaumont, 

 and others will be adopted. It is true that there is a heavy stock ot plants 

 of the Triomphe de Gand yet on hand, which it is desirable to push off 

 before the public are fully informed as to the superior varieties. 



No. 2. Bartlett. — Who had the assurance to recommend this plant for 

 general cultivation ? It is an old Massachusetts variety called Boston 

 Pine, totally rejected there except as a fertilizer of the Hovey. If grown 

 after the usual field culture, it is utterly worthless for its barrenness, and 

 does not produce one berry to six blossoms. I threw it on the dunghill 

 and Mr. Cadness of Flushing did the same, and said it ought to be publicb 

 denounced, and a multitude of others will tell j^ou of its worthlessness for 

 field culture. 



Why is it that this old exploded variety should have been palmed upon 

 the public as a new seedling ? Mr. Fuller acknowledged to me that it 

 Avas not a new seedling, but that he found it in Mr. Bartlett's garden. Who- 

 ever plants this barren Pine variety for field culture, will have full cause 

 to remember the man that recommended it. It was denounced at the Pom- 

 ological Convention of 1860 by Mr. W. C. Strong and other Strawberry 

 growers of Brighton, Mass., the place where the plant originated, and has 

 been an outcast for the last ten years. At the National Pomological Con- 

 vention at Boston in September last, the only question about it was, 

 whether it is the Boston Pine or the Brighton Pine, both of which are worth- 

 less for field culture. The President, Marshall P. Wilder, said he had not yet 

 decided on this point. Mr. Hovey denounced it, even Mr. Knox no\V' 

 declares it is the old Boston Pine which is the parent of the Brighton Pine. 



No. 3. Wilson. — The day for this miserable apology for the Strawberry 

 family has gone by, and its culture is nearly abandoned. Even Mr. Knox 

 who lauded it to the skies has plowed it up, and the plants can no longer 

 be sold for -anything. 



No. 4. La Consfante. — To this variety I cannot object, if the Pines are to 

 be adopted for field culture. It is one of the best, but can only be success- 

 fully grown in hills and by special cultivation, yes it is vastly in advance 

 of the Triomphe de Gand. 



No. 5. Cutter. — This is a fair berry, rather large, of acid flavor, and 

 bears a fair crop for a hermaphrodite, which sexual class as a general rule 

 produces about two-thirds the quantity per acre that is realized from the 

 productive pistillates. 



No. 6. NewlandJs Seedling, or Pyramidal Chili. — I am quite amused at 

 seeing this old variety resurrected. I was the only person that called it 

 " Newland " and so named it in my last Catalogue, not because it is a 

 seedling, as it is not so, but to prevent confusion. Mr. Newland, of Pal- 

 myra, obtained this variety long since from a man who declared he received 

 it direct from Chili. But as I saw at once that it was a variety of the 

 Virginiana family, I wrote Mr. Newland to that effect, and that I should 

 call it by his name to prevent its being confused with the true Chili varie- 

 ties. It is a good berry, rather large, and fairly productive for one of the 

 hermaphrodite class, sweet, juicy, firm flesh. 



Here we have Six Varieties, whose names are sent forth to the nation 



