We, therefore, deem it only necessary here to describe the New Varieties. The 

 public taste has become so awakened to the appreciation of the svxet^ high- 

 Havored and perfumed varieties of the Strawberry, that such berries as the "Wil- 

 son, Downer, Austin, Agriculturist, Monitor, Col. Ellsworth, &c., will not be 

 tolerated by persons familiar with good fruit*"and the New Varieties presented 

 to us, during the past three years, as Seedlings from the Wilson, very large, but 

 sour and insipid, ought to satisfy every amateur, that when desirous of obtain- 

 ing sweet and fine-fiavcred Seedlings, we must select the seed from parents pos- 

 sessing these qualities. We now ofier a few of cur snptnor New Seedlings 

 with descriptions, and there is not an acid or inferior one among them. Of the 

 following assortment, Z5 of the most estimable varieties, designated by an as- 

 terisk (*), were originated in our own Nurseries, and selected from thousands of 

 Seedlings. Several of these have white flesh, and there is not one of them that 

 is not superior in flavor to Russell's Prolific, and to all the Seedlings recently 

 announced. The American Varieties possess the advantage of great hardihood 

 and productiveness, and are suitable for field culture. Hermaphrodite Varieties 

 should be grown in rows or hills, but Pistillates may be allowed to cover the 

 entire ground. The latter will require one-tenth of Hermaphrodites to fertilize 

 them, which can be grown in distinct beds, and as these are also fruit-bearing, 

 no space is lost, as has been alleged. If the beds are v.ithin 50 feet of each 

 other, the impregnation will be perfected. It i? a positive normal fact, based 

 on phj'sical structure, that the Pistillate Varieties of any species of the Straw- 

 berry, will produce a crop fifty per cent, greater per acre than the Hermaph- 

 rodites can possibly do, as has been fully demonstra'-od in an article on the 

 Fragaria Family, read before the American Institute, and to be published in 

 their forthcoming Transactions. Any person who ignores the natural existence 

 of Pistillates, furnishes us an evidence of his ignorance of Nature's facts and 

 pmrposes ; and any one who will devote ten minutes to a search in the forest 

 can' obtain proof of the fact. In field culture, when planted in rows 2 by 2^ 

 feet, it requires 9,000 plants to an acre. H, denotes hermaphrodites — P, pis- 

 tillates. 



We invite all Amateurs to inspect our collection at the fruiting season, 

 it being the most extensive, and at the same time the most select one in our 

 country, and unequalled in Europe, and the only one where all the species of 

 the Strawberry family are assembled. Amateurs can here form a correct judg- 

 ment as to the average size and productiveness of the Varieties, whereas the 

 exhibitions of selected and often of mixed or misnamed berries are deceptive, 

 and result in disappointments. The precision and accuracy in our gardens is 

 such, that we have ottered $100 if one erroneous plant could be found. We - 

 refer to Professor Huntsman, our best-informed Amateur, to John W. Cham- 

 bers, Esq., Secretary of the American Institute, and to the mass who annually 

 visit our Gardens, as to the great superiority of our collection over aH o?hers, 

 and as to its systematic arrangement. We caution the public against such act* 

 as -have been practised with the Bartlett and others, by giving new names to 

 old varieties ; by selling Lennig's White under three names^ as if distinct, and 

 also forcing on the pubHc such coraparntively poor varieties as will be found 

 named iiLthe Rejected List, annexed hereto. 



