40 On Producing new and early Fruits. 



sown early, affords an abundant crop in the succeeding year. 

 My garden at present contains several new and excellent 

 varieties of this fruit,* some of which I shall be happy to 

 send to the Horticultural Society. 



* The Hautboy Strawberry does not appear to propagate readily .with the 

 other varieties, and may possibly belong to an originally distinct species. I have, 

 however, obtained several offspring from its farina ; but they have all produced a 

 feeble and abortive blossom. If nature, in any instance, permits the existence of 

 vegetable mules (but this I am not inclined to believe) these plants seem to be 

 beings of that kind. 



