dites may all be deeracd myfJeratt hearers, except where -we have deuoted 

 otherwise. la selecting an impregnator to plant among Pistillatcs, it is 

 the better course to select a productive Hermaphrodite variety, as this 

 will prevent any loss oi space. 



The remarks often made that Strav/berries should not be highly ma- 

 nured, or that they should be grown on poor soil, are utterly erroneous. 

 High manuring for some unproductive Hermaphrodites may have a 

 greater tendency to develope their natural and peculiar character of 

 throwing out masjjes of runners, but as regards the Female or Pistillate 

 plants \yhich have been specially and physically designed for the produc- 

 tion of fruit, the stimulus of high manuring cannot do otherwise than 

 greatly increase the production of fruit — the nature of the female plant 

 not being to waste itself in bloom and runners, but to perfect the greater 

 crop of its berries. 



The Hermaphrodites or Staminates intended for impregnating, should 

 l>e planted in distinct rows or bed-?, and not among th(i FisrillateS; as the 

 more rapid increase of the former would soon cause the beds to be over- 

 run with them. 



Independently of the Alpine class, there are several Awieties which 

 pi'oduce a moderate second crop of fruit when grown in a moist soil and 

 irrigated. These are Nos. 6, 76. 82 and 110, all of which by ample irri- 

 gation, may be made to produce fruit here during the hot months : and 

 at the South, where ihc heat is so much prolonged, they become pet-peitKil 

 hearts when subjected to permanent regular irrigations, and especially 

 so on the banks of the Mississippi, where the soil is saturated. 



In regard to hardihood, all the varieties here enumerated will with- 

 stand the winters of the most Northern States by simply covering^ the 

 beds with four inches of straw, sedge, hay, or with leaves, or leaf-mould 

 from the forest, by which the danger of the plants freezing out is pre- 

 vented. Spent tau may be used as a winter covering, to the depth of 

 three or four inches ; but it should be removed very early in the Spring, 

 or it will materially injure the crop. In this latitude we find no cover- 

 ing necessary, except for beds planted just before tlie winter sets in. "We 

 plant successfully from June to December. No plant is more sure of 

 BUC^ss by the simplest culture, than the Strawberry. 



CHINESE POTATO OR YAM— DIOSCOREA. 



This most valuable, nutricions, and productive of all Esculents is now 

 under successful culture bj several thou.=»:ind person?, and being perfectly 

 hardy and of the easiest culture, and far superior in quality to all other 

 Potatoes, it cannot fail to be duly appreciated by all who fairly test it« 

 merits. Every att»ck upon this pUnt has arisen from ignorance er malice, 

 ■which leads persons to corrdenm without investigation. In France the Ag- 

 rioultural Societies hare awarded thoir Gold Medals to its c.ultiTstors, and 

 all opposition has yielded to 't^e triumphant resuU-g of investigation and 

 truth, and now thi? Vogeiable regularly vendtid in their pnblic marketii. 

 The Hon. Henry ifeig», Secretary of the American Institute has made five 

 triuMphant Reports on its successful culture, and its transcendant merits, 

 a^i the most nutritions food for man : Dr. Hollick of New York, Dr. WpUiug- 

 tou of Jamestown, N, Y., and other* V,*ive rendered to it the highest eacomi- 

 nms in their published statements, a -d the Araeriean In»tit.ut© has twice 

 awarded their Silver Medal to Mr. Prince for the splendi^l specimens he has 

 ©xhibittd. On the 1st October the Keduced Prices will be announced. 



