96 THE FLORIST AND 



New Flowers.— -We have received from Mr. Buist a flower of a seedling 

 Camellia, raised in Pittsburg by C. J. Spang, Esq. It is a large flower, 

 double, and well imbricated, with -petals of good shape and substance. The 

 color is a pink, resembling that of Landrethii, the outer petals rather darker, 

 the inner ones striped with white. 



Mr. Peter Mackenzie's Camellia " Jenny Lind," has been sold to Messrs. 

 E. G. Henderson & Co., St.' John's Wood, London, for £200. It is cer- 

 tainly the finest of its class, and the price paid was not too high. 



Mr. Editor — I have no intention of "mixing" in the Strawberry contro- 

 versy, having neither the information nor the time requisite for a proper ex- 

 amination and the necessary observation and experiments, before an intelli- 

 gent and reliable judgment on the subject can be rendered. But a single 

 fact has come under my observation which I think may possibly contribute, 

 in a slight degree, to the collection of facts, which must, in the end, definite- 

 ly settle the matter one way or the other. As a "mite" in the controversy, 

 to be cast to the side of the balance to which it may properly belong, I send 

 it. A few seasons since, I found a single strawberry plant in my garden ; 

 how it came there I do not know, probably from seed] dropped on the spot 

 by accident. This plant was suffered to grow, and in due time blossomed 

 and bore fruit. Now whether the blossoms were staminate or pistillate, or 

 whether stamens and pistils were contained in the same blossom, I do not 

 know, having never thought of examining them ; but that a single plant in a 

 garden within the quadrangle of an extensive public building, did bear fruit, 

 I do know. My attention was called to it from the fact, that I had always 

 understood that strawberry plants w6uld not produce fruit, unless distinct 

 plants of the two sexes were together or in proximity. It was not only no- 

 ticed by myself, but was also regarded by others as a singular circumstance, 

 as a sort of lusus naturse. I communicate the fact just for what it is worth, 

 no more. J. Foster. 



Phila. FeVy, 1854. 



We neglected to acknowledge the receipt last month of the "Transactions 

 of the North-Western Fruit Growers' Association," which we found full of 

 very interesting matter. 



We are also indebted to W. S. King, Esq., for a copy of his address, from 

 which we have made an extract this month. 



Catalogue received from J. S. Downer, Elkton, Ky. 



