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which although extolled at fairs, have now given place to more 
valuable varieties, and are consequently at present deemed com- 
paratively valueless; and I also notice errors of sexuality. 
Swanstone Seedling, (hermaphrodite,) is very high flavored, but 
valueless for its small crops, and is also subject to being burnt by 
our sun. 
Large Lima is hermaphrodite, an indifferent hearer, and a 
synonym of the true Chili. 
Bislw'p's Orange, (so called at Boston,) is very different from 
the true variety. The blossoms are both hermaphrodite and pis- 
tillate, and the fruit dark red or crimson, whereas the true variety 
is pistillate only, with fruit of a beautiful orange scarlet hue, 
and is far the most productive and estimable, the erroneous va- 
riety being now superseded. 
Bayne^s Prolific is a synonym of one of the older varieties. 
Hudson comprises both hermaphrodite and pistillate plants, and 
I shall ere long give a complete history of this variety, with 
some singular elucidations. It is highly productive and val- 
uable. 
Hovey^s Seedling, as is well known, produces great crops, as also 
the other pistillates invariably do, when accompanied by a stam- 
inate or hermaphrodite impregnator, of which one to twenty or 
even less will suffice. 
Large Early Scarlet is hermaphrodite, and produces usually a 
half crop, sometimes less, and sometimes rather more. 
Black Prince is pistillate, a large and showy fruit, borne 
on strong peduncles, sweet and fine flavored at full maturity. It 
does not succeed well in the moist clima^te of England, but our 
glowing sun and dry atmosphere seem congenial to its full deve- 
lopment. 
Ross Phoenix is hermaphrodite, and like its congeners, Keen's 
Seedling, and with which I deem it identical, it is utterly worth- 
less for its barrenness, and for other defects. 
BurfsLate Prolific is a valuable variety, but not more produc- 
tive than a number of others. 
Burr's JYew Pine is a large, very productive, and high flavored 
variety, and the best of his seedlings in point of excellence. 
Melon is of the same character as to sexuality and paucity 
of fruit as Keen's Seedling, or Ross' Phoenix. 
Soutkhorougk Seedling is hermaphrodite, the fruit large but few 
m number, borne on very strong peduncles. It is valueless for a 
crop. In the extract you made from Hovey's Magazine, there is 
the following remark. "I believe every flower on the above 
varieties (as therein enumerated,) is female, and if planted 
separately, will Jail to yield abundantly.^' The truth is, that 
female plants would not produce at all, and how any man can be 
