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BELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



reqviires a great deal of water, or moist soil, and will 

 not bear so ricli soil as Boston Pine and many other 

 kinds ; and tlie simple reduction of the soil to the com- 

 mon grade has sometimes changed the barren into pro- 

 dnctive plants. It originated, in 1834. The vines are 

 vigorous, leaves large in rich soil, rather light green, 

 and fruit-stalks are of good length. Fruit is very- 

 large, roundish-oval, conical ; color, rich scarlet ; seeds 

 slightly imbedded ; firm flesh ; well adapted for market, 

 and of medium season ; floAvers pistillate, 



MONHOE SCARLET. 



This variety has not been so extensively known or 

 so largely tested as Hovey's Seedling and Burr's New 

 Pine. It originated in Rochester by those enterprising . 

 nurserymen, Messrs. Elwanger & Barry, and was first 

 exhibited by them at the June meeting of the "Horti- 

 cmPiTdl Society of the Valley of the Grenesee," we 

 think in 1850, where we first saw it, and took a plant 

 home with us. 



We introduce it in this connection, because we think 

 it will prove remarkably productive. Such has been 

 the case in our trials of it ; it has uniformly surpassed 

 all others in'bearing. We have counted over seventy 

 ripe berries of good size, the largest measuring four 

 and three-fourths inches in circumference at one time, 

 on a single plant less than one year old. A friend 



