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litter, or branches of evergreens. The old and weak dead- 

 wood should be cut out every season, to give strength to 

 the young shoots for the next year's bearing. 



S T H .A. "W B E K, B, I E S 



HOOKEE. Mowers, hermaphrodite; form, broadly 

 conical, regular, sometimes cockscomb-shaped, or de- 

 pressed ; size, 1 ; color, deep crimson, rather soft, polished 

 surface ; quality, 1. 



Trollope's Yictoria. Yery large, roundish conical; 

 pale red; sweet, and agreeably perfumed; hardy, a free 

 grower, and productive. The most so of all English 

 sorts, both native and foreign. 



Marylandica. "We give for the present only, the fol- 

 lowing notice of this new variety, from the Country Gentle- 

 man. If this sort maintains its high promise, it must take 

 a high place among market berries. 



" The Marylandica Strawberry, one of the finest, if not 

 the very finest, we have ever seen and tasted, comes from 

 Samuel Feast & Sons, of Baltimore. It is the berry that 

 took so many premiums in the hands of the late Dr. Ed- 

 mondson, who would never part with a plant. Messrs. 

 Feast have control of the whole stock, and we advise cul- 

 tivators to look after it at once. These strawberries are 

 entirely different from any others wc know ; the vines are 

 very strong; leaves, dark and glossj'; many of the ber- 

 ries have a footstalk from five to six inches long; fruit, 

 very large, often flattened, solid and firm, bearing trans- 

 portation remarkably well. The interior is perfectly 

 bcnutifiil, cutting almost as solidly as a pear, without any 

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