August 18, 1870. ] 



JOURNAL OF HOETICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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used only Green's 16-inch maohine for some years ; it is very 

 hard work for two men. If the grass is long it cannot catch 

 it, and fine short grass it almost tears up by the roots. During 

 the past three years my grass plots have been much burnt up 

 and very ugly ; this made me desire a better machine. When 

 the Archimedean was announced I wrote to inquire, and had 

 one offered no cure no pay, and on trial I was glad to keep it 

 and pay for it. My gardener, having been ill, is now only weak, 

 so I volunteered to mow the grass, of which I have more than 

 half-an-acre. I have mown it all myself during the past three 

 weeks, with the exception of a small portion, which was out last 

 week with Green's machine by two men, but the result is very 

 inferior. The grass left on by the Archimedean is a benefit ; 

 the turf improves and becomes like velvet. I can work the 

 machine easily ; it is a delightful implement, its work a success, 

 and those who wish to know more may come and see or write. 

 — Thomas Baines, Stock House, Bingley. 



STRAWBERRIES WORTHY AND UNWORTHY 



OP CULTIVATION. 



Year by year our Strawberry lists are extended, new and 

 wonderful varieties coming upon us from every quarter ; to 

 grow even a dish of each would fill with plants an ordinary- 

 sized garden. Variety is getting so abundant as to be perfectly 

 embarrassing, and amidst so much variety there must neces- 

 sarily exist much inferiority. If our Strawberries have been 

 improved — and they have been so considerably — many sorts are 

 thus superseded, and ought to be discarded and forgotten. To 

 grow inferior sorts is certainly useless ; to have to purchase 

 such is more than vexing. Peeling that " to know what to 

 avoid " is good knowledge, we subjoin a list of varieties which 

 have come under our personal observation, both during the 

 present and the last year, and which ought to be entirely dis- 

 carded. Some of them may, perhaps, in certain localities, and 

 for certain purposes, prove passable. We venture to say, how- 

 ever, they are but few, and that even these are improved upon 

 and superseded. We have this season examined upwards of 

 four hundred named kinds, and out of these we discard the 

 following : — 



A. Van Geert Gelineau Nimrod 



Adair Globe Nonsuch 



Admiral Dundas Goldfinder Old Chili 



AmbroBia Great Eastern Orange Chili 



Augusta Kitmeyer Great Exhibition Orb 



Australia Green's Prolific Palmyre 



Baronne DumarLanage Hacquin Patrick's Seedling 



Beauty of England Helena Jamain Peabody'6 Seedling 



Beehive Hendries, Seedling Pearl 



Belle Artoissienne Henrietta Pitmaston Black 



Belle Cauchoise Hero Prince Charlie 



Belle de Paris Highland Mary Prince Arthur 



Bicolor Hooper's Seedling Princess Alice Maud 



Blandford Hovey's Seedling Princess Fredk.William 



Bostock Iowa Princess of Wales 



Boston Pine Jenny Lind Princess Royal of Eng- 



Bonbon John Powell land 



Bonte de St. Julien Jucunda Progres 



Boule d'Or Jung Bahadoor Richard II. 



Brighton Pine Kimberley Robert Traill 



British Queen Seedling King Arthur Roseberry 



Britannia Kraminsky Rosebud 



Brittany Pine La Boule an Monde Royal Victoria 



Ceres La Fertile Ruby 



Chinese La Grosse Sucree Rushtoniensis 



Choix d'un Amateur La Negresse St. Lambert 



Cole's Prolific La Paysanne Sanspareil 



Comte de Zans La Perle Savourense 



Comtesse TheresaKickx La Petite Marie Scott's Seedling 



Comtesse de Marne La Reine Sir Walter Scott 



Cornish Diamond La Rustique Stirling Castle Pine 



Cornucopia La Vineuse Sultane 



Cox's Hybrid Ladies' Finger Surpasse Grosse Sucree 



Defiance Le Baron Surprise (Myatt's) 



Delices dn Palais Le Titiens The Lady 



Delices d'Automne Lecoq Pine Thorn's Seedling 



Dr. Karl Koch Leon de St. Larmier Topsy 



Deptford Pine Leopold Trollope's Victoria 



Douglas's Californian Lorenz Booth Triomphe 



Duchesse de Beaumont Lord Clyde Triomphe de Gand 



Eliza Champion Mon Gout Unique Scarlet 



Elton Pine Improved Monstrueuse de Robine Versaillaise 



Excellente Monro's Scarlet Virgin Queen 



Fairy Queen Muscadine Virginie 



Fertile d' Angers Myatt's Mammoth Wellington 



Fillmore Myatt's Prolific Wilmot's Superb 



Garibaldi (Nicholson) Ne Plus Ultra Wizard of the North 



General Havelock Newton Kyme Wonderful 



the number is really not required, yet we here enumerate 

 them as possessing some distinctive property. Those the 

 most meritorious in our estimation we have marked with an 

 asterisk *. 



♦Ajax, very large, fine colour, splendid for forcing. 



Alice Nicholson, fine quality. 



Ascot Pine Apple, fine quality, early. 



Bicton Pine, best white. 



Black Prince, useful early sort. 

 ♦British Queen, finest quality, suitable for some soils. 



Comte de Paris, splendid colour and texture. 



Crimson Cluster, Hautbois flavour. 

 *Dr. Hogg, finest quality, large, fine constitution. 

 *Duc de Malakoff, the largest of all. 



Duke of Edinburgh, large and very handsome. 



Duke of Edinburgh (Moffat's), very large, fine market sort. 

 *Elton Pine, best late-preserving. 



EmpresB Eugenie, great bearer, large size. 

 *Frogmore Late Pine, excellent late variety. 

 ♦Gloria, excellent early sort, fine flavour. 



Grove End Scarlet, good preserving. 



Her Majesty, large and handsome. 



Highland Chief, excellent quality. 

 ♦Keens' Seedling, one of the best for forcing. 



Kitley's Goliah, great bearer in some soils. 

 *La Constante, finest quality, remarkable hibit. 

 *Lucas, very large, fine constitution and quality. 



May Queen, the earliest of all, but very small. 

 ♦Mr. RadclyfTe, large and excellent. 



Myatt's Eleanor, fine appearance, late. 

 ♦Myatt's Eliza, finest quality. 



Old Scarlet, good preserving. 

 ♦Oscar, fine quality, splendid colour. 

 ♦Old Pine, fine quality, distinct character, bears well in the shade. 



Perpetual Pine, interesting as a variety. 

 ♦Premier, fine quality, great bearer. 



President Wilder, large, handsome. 



Prince of Wales (Cuthill's), extraordinary bearer, late. 



Rifleman, great bearer, large. 



Royalty, fine quality, great bearer. 



Scarlet Cluster, fine colour, good quality. 

 ♦Sir C. Napier, most profitable for the London market, excellent for 

 forcing and general purposes. 



♦Sir Harry, large, splendid cropper, fine market sort. 

 Sir J. Paxton, excellent variety. 

 Souvenir de Kieff, very handsome, large. 



♦The Amateur, very large, enormous bearer. 



W. J. Nicholson, fine quality, large. 



Waltham Seedling, enormous bearer, good. 



♦Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury, the most generally useful. 



Synonymes are not here given. There are, in addition to both 

 of these lists now given, a great number of varieties which 

 may be termed of mediocre quality, but sufficiently good for 

 retention in large collections, or for some particular use, or for 

 being specially suited for some particular soil or district ; also 

 a never-ending stream of novelties, or so-called improvements, 

 or repetitions of the same under other names ; likewise many 

 others which have never come under our observation, as we 

 write only of our own knowledge and experience. 



We next furnish a shorter, yet sufficiently extensive, list of 

 those varieties which have proved sufficiently meritorious for 

 some purpose or other to warrant their retention. One-tenth 



DOUBLE GERANIUMS. 



I cannot agree with " D., Deal," that the double Geranium 

 is good for bedding purposes, for as Mr. Abbey justly says in 

 his article last week, the centre of the trusses is very apt to 

 clog and mildew in wet, and turn black in dry weather. I have 

 tried several varieties, and found all fail, even the double Tom 

 Thumb ; this Mr. Abbey thinks might do. But there is one 

 purpose I find them very suitable for, and that is window 

 plants, as they remain a very long time in bloom, and the 

 oen'res of the trusses, being perfectly dry, scarcely change 

 colour, while they have the advantage of retaining their petals 

 until removed altogether, and having this property they are 

 also very suitable for button-hole flowers. 



I have grown the following in my window this year — Gloire 

 de Nancy, Smith's Victor, Victor Lemoine, Marie Lemoine, 

 Madame Lemoine, Vesuve, and Wilhelm Pfitzer. Of these I 

 think Marie Lemoine the best light colour, being so compact 

 in its growth, but Madame Lemoine is also good. Gloire de 

 Nancy ought to be kept dry to prevent its growing too strong, 

 and it will then open well. Victor Lemoine is by far the best and 

 brightest of the scarlets, a very good trusser, and of dwarf habit. 

 Vesuve is of the same colour and shape as Smith's Victor, 

 but not so dwarf in habit, but both heavy in colour and small 

 in truss. Wilhelm Pfitzer is also a dull red, ragged in form 



