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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Agricultvirist Strawberry Successful- 
Plants as Premiums. 
The past monlh has definitely established the great 
value of this variety. We wish every reader could have 
looked upon the plot on the Publisher's grounds— the 
slools in regular order, each almost large enough to fill 
from a peck to X bushel measure, with hardly a defective 
plant in the whole plot ; though most of them were set 
out October and November, 1864 and not all protected 
during winter. There is not the least sign of disease or 
worm in the whole plot; and the usual white grub, no 
often fatal to this and other plants, in all localities, seems 
to have let these entirely alone. The fruit was large, 
beautiful, and of excellent quality ; and though the plants 
were taxed to the utmost in producing runners, which 
were lifted until April ITth, the fruit was still so abun- 
dant, that home dealers readily offered and paid $300 for 
wliat they could themselves pick on a tiille over half an 
acreof them, with no trouble or expense to the proprietor. 
As all the plants possible were desired, no effort was 
made to produce extraordinary specimens, yet under the 
hard treatment above described, large numbers of berries 
were picked, ranging only 20 to 30 in the pound ; and 
some were larger still, while the fruit was solid and 
crimson to the r^ . e. These facts were witnessed by many 
neighbors acd visitors. At the second exhibition, June 
15th, after the best fruit was gone, this variety was excel- 
led by the Russell, in the weight of three heaviest berries. 
We leave others, less interested, to speak of the compa- 
rative flavor. We have no plants to sell, having agreed 
with Mr. Knox of Pittsburg, who took all our surplus 
plants last spring, to sell none this year, except on his 
account ; but from the interest we have taken in bringing 
cut and distributing this variety, we have no little pride 
and pleasure in the result. 
As announced last month, (page 194) we reserved the 
right to offer plants as premiums for subscribers ; and the 
generally successful sending of the plants by mail in 
wooden boxes, this ye.ar, warrants us in offering to send 
them thus at any time In autumn, at least prior to Sep- 
tember in. We therefore republish the oSer of last month. 
1. — To any one who will now, or any time be/ore Au- 
gust 15th, send us /our subscribers, at the regular rates 
($5), we will forward, post paid, Ten of the Agricultur- 
ist Str.iwberry Plants, of first class, about Sept. 1. 
II. — To any one sending ten subscribers now, or before 
August ISth, we will send Twenty Plants as above. 
Ill, — An so on, for a larger number of names we will 
send at the rate of 20 Plants for ten subscribers. 
JOS" Subscriptions may begin at the middle of the vol- 
ume, July 1st, or date back to the beginning of the vol- 
ume, Jan. Ist, and receive the back numbers, which are 
always printed as needed from stereotype plates. 
jf^= In addition to the above, those new subscribers 
who ha.e not before had plants of us, may call for a 
plant or two apiece, if each one sends 5 cents extra along 
with the subscription, to cover cost of postage, box and 
packing. We cannot afford the time, trouble and ex- 
pense of reopening the offer of plants to others than new 
names coming in under the above premium proposition. 
The offer of free plants has been open to all subscribers 
for more than a year, which is surely enough. 
Xlie Agricultiiral Bureau.— A -word 
to President Jolinson.— We have at Washington 
an "Agricultural Bureau," supported at an annual ex- 
pense to the countiy of nearly Two Hundred Thousand 
Dollars, including direct appropriations, the printing of 
the annual reports, etc. It might be of great value to 
the country if properly managed. There are some ex- 
cellent men engaged in subordinate positions, but we say 
plHinly, that the present head of the Bureau is not com- 
petent for his position, and we are quite sure this is the 
general, if not the unanimous, opinion of the moi'e intal- 
ligent agriculturists of the country who are awake to the 
improvement of Ibis great inteiest. We should suppose 
the Coramissiuncr himself would feel this after his four 
years of offire. He must have received many direct 
and indirect intimations of the feelings and wishes of tlie 
public. Owing to the heavy pressure of other public in- 
terests upon the late President, the people have hitherto 
consented to hold the matter in abeyance, though consul- 
tations on the subject have been frequent. There is far 
from entire ignor-ince in regard to the schemes and 
"White House" influences that have been brought to 
bear to keep the Bureau under its past and present di- 
rection, and of the efforts to secure the favorable opinion 
of the members of the next Congress. In behalf of our 
own hundreds of thousands of readers, and of the country 
at large, we beg President Johnson to give the subject his 
earliest possible attention, and place at the head of the 
Bureau some man of broad comprehensive views and in- 
telligence, one able to grasp the immense interests in- 
involved in the scope of the Department, and lay out and 
carry into execution such plans as will promote agricul- 
tural development and improvement. At present the Bu- 
reau falls infinitely below what It should and might be, 
and there is no hope of its being better, until under more 
competent direction. 
»-. «<■ •-» 
Tlie ■Washington Monnment— Is it 
a Humbug ?— On the Mall, west of the Smithsonian 
Institute, at Washington, stands a half or quarter-fin- 
ished obelisk called "Washington Monument," and 
thus it has stood for years past. Large contributions 
have been called for, to aid in building it, from time to 
time, from Maine to California. In the Patent Office is 
a model of the proposed completed monument, and at 
each corner of it is a glass box calling for contributions. 
While there at the Review, we noticed many patriotic 
soldiers putting in their hard earned currency freely, 
and we learned that this had been done very largely 
during the recent encampment of our armies around the 
Capital. These boxes are emptied every now and then, 
and we would like to know what is done with the 
money. We do not remember any report of receipts or 
expenditures by the "Association" for several years 
past, and hear it intimated that some of the manages are 
not the most loyal, or have not been. It may be all 
right ; but in behalf of the contributors to the enterprise , 
among whom we have been numbered, we call for full 
information. Who has charge of tlie money, and Is ev- 
ery dollar legitimately and properly expended, and how ? 
The Strawberry Show of 1865. 
In order to meet both extremes of the Strawberry sea- 
son, as well as to give those who cultivate in later local- 
ilies an equal chance with those who live on warm soils, 
the show was continued through two days, a week apart. 
The Exhibition on the first day, June 8th, was very full 
and the fruit of an unusually fine quality. Fewer entries 
, ."^re made on the second day, June 15th, but they includ- 
'^ some things not exhibited on the first day. Taken as 
a whole, the show was a success, and the crowds of per- 
sons who visited it, many of them with note-book in 
Iiand, showed that these free exhibitions interest great 
numbers and they cannot fail to be very instructive. 
The following are the entries and the awards of prizes. 
ENTRIES JUIVE; Sth. 
Triomphe de Gand ; Crimson Favorite ; Agriculturist : 
John Cole, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. 
Seedling: Erastus G. Barret, Sag Harbor, L. I. 
Boston Pine ; Chilian Pyramidal : W. E. Chilson, 
Passaic, N. J. 
Wilson; Triomphe de Gand: 11. * C. G. Atwaler, 
New Haven, Conn. 
Agriculturist ; Boston Pine ; Green Prolific ; Vicom- 
tesse ; Triomphe de Gand : L. V. Conover, Morrisania, 
N. Y. 
Agriculturist (and 3 plants) : O. Judd, Flushing. 
Barnes' Mammoth (with plant): TenEyck Bros., Mid- 
dletown, N. J. 
Seedling (and 2 plants); Agriculturist: Seth Boyden, 
Newark, N. J. 
Wilson , Triomphe de Gand : T. W. Suffems, Sufferns, 
N. Y. 
Gen. Grant (seedling from the Agriculturist) : W. A. 
Burgess, Glen Cove, L. I. 
Tiiomphe de Gand : Geo. Elvins, Hammonton, N. J. 
Col. Ellsworth ; Seedling: I. L. Nostrand, Brooklyn, 
Russel ; Buff:Uo ; Lady Finger ; Monitor ; Hovey ; 
Crimson Favorite ; French's Seedling; Green Prolific; 
"Triomphe de Gand; Downer's Prolific ; Ward's Favor- 
ite ; Cutter ; Vicomtesse ; Deptford White : E. Williams. 
.Montclair, N. J 
Russell ; Heins' Prolific : E. Faile, Woodstock, N.Y. 
Imported German Strawberries : Ernst & Bro., South 
Amboy, N. J. 
Hautbois: I.E. Chapman, Perth Amboy, N. J. 
Boston Pine or Bartlelt : Edward Kelly, N. Y. Cily. 
Wilson ; Triomphe de Gand : G. Henry, Hudson N. J 
Green Pridific ; Lenni^'s White ; La Constante; Rus- 
sell : C. S. Pell, N. Y. Orpliau Asylum. 
Hooker ; Scarlet Magnate , Wilson ; Burr's New Pine; 
LeBaron ; Frederick William ; Rein Hortense , Charl- 
ton's Prolific , Marguerite ; French's Seedling ; Brighton 
Pine ; Ladies' Pine ; Vicomtesse ; Scott's Seedling , Cut- 
ter ; Deptford Pine ; Victory ; Mrs. Fuller ; Austin ; 
Monitor ; Albion ; Triomphe de Gand : Jenny Lind ; 
Ridgewood ; Brooklyn Scai'let ; Green Prolific; Belle 
Bordelaise ; Schiller ; Col. Ellsworth ; Gen. Scott ; Iowa; 
Nicholson's Superb; Gen. McClellan : Black Prince; 
De Montrieul ; Lennig's White ; Bonte de St. Julien ; 
Scotch Runner ; Victoria ; Emma; Napoleon 3d ; Al- 
bion : Thos. Cavanagh, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Russel; Wilson: Eliza (seedling); Gen. McClellan ; 
Jucunda ; Triomphe de Gand ; Austin ; Green Prolific; 
Boston Pine; McAvoy's Superior; Buffalo; La Con- 
stante ; Fillmore ; Cutter ; Green Prolific ; Hovey ; 
Hooker; Biooklyn Scarlet, Virginia: Francis Brill, 
Newark, N. J. 
Agriculturist; Union Scarlet; McAvoy's Superior; 
Green Prolific . John Grove, Union, N. Y. 
Seedling: E. H. Bogert, Manhassel, L. I. 
ENTRIES jrNE IStli. 
English Seedling, 3 varieties; R. Wade, Troy, N. Y. 
Eight Seedlings: W. H. Romeyn, Kingston, N. Y. 
Frances Emma (seedling) : H. W. Tibbetts, White 
Plains, N. Y. 
Perry (Seedling) : Geo. Perry & Son, Georgetown, Ct. 
Alpine ; Hautbois : Thos. Cuthbert, Riverdale, N. Y. 
Russell: Wilson; Triomphe de Gand; La Con- 
stante : Geo. Herbert, Peeksklll, N. Y. 
Seedling (Plant): Wm. Teft, Fordham, N. Y. 
Agriculturist : O. Judd, Flushing, L. I. 
Lennig's White: Russell; Fillmore: C. S. Pell, N. 
Y. Orphan Asylum. 
Russell ; Black Prince ; Austin ; Triomphe de Gand; 
Brooklyn Scarlet ; Rideewood ; La Constante; Gen'l 
Scott: M:irgiieiite ; Victoiia ; Cutter: Monitor; Len- 
nig's White ; Deptford White ; Belle Bordelaise: Hooker; 
Ciimson Favorite: Bonte St. Julien; Vicomtesse; 
Scotch Runner ; Alpine : Thos. Cavanagh, Brooklyn, 
Boston Pine (Barlletl) : Mr. Sperry, Staten Ishand. 
Downer's Prolific: Longworth's Prolific : Union Scar- 
let; Berry for name : John Crane, Union, N. Y. 
PRIZES AITARDED. 
For Best Stiiiwberry, new or old ; to Selh Boyden, 
Newark. N. J., for Agriculturist, $5. 
For Best 12 approved varieties ; to Fr.incis Biill, New 
ark, N. J. $5. 
Second Best do ; to E. Williams, Montclair, N. J. $3. 
For Largest and best collecllon ; to Thos. Cavanagh, 
Biooklyn, N. Y., $5. 
For Best show of Strawberry plants id pots, to Thos. 
Cavanagh, $5. 
For Best Market variety, 2 quarts (Agriculturist) ; to 
Mr. 01m, gardener to O. Judd, Flushing, N. Y., t3. 
For Heaviest 3 berries of any one variety (Agricultur- 
ist, weight iX ozs.) ; to Seth Boyden, and Geo Herbert, 
Peekskill, N. Y., (Russell, weight 2?i ozs.) : $2. 
For Best pint of White Berries (Lennig's White) ; to 
C, S. Pell, N. Y. Orphan Asylum. $2. 
For best Alpines to Thos. Cuthbert.Rlverdale. L. I. $1. 
Best New Seedling ; Seth Boyden, Newark, N. J., $5. 
For Best pint of each of the following varieties : For 
Agriculturist, to Seth Boyden; for Russell's Prolific, to 
C. S. Pell; for Brooklyn Scarlet, to Francis Brill : for 
Monitor, to E.Williams ; for Col. Ellsworth, to Thos. 
Cavanagh ; for Triomphe de Gand, to H. & C. G. Atwn- 
ter, New-Haven, Conn., and Geo. Herbert, Peekskill, 
N. Y. ; for Wilson, to Geo. Henry. Hudson City, N. 
J.; for Hovey's Seedling, to E. Williiims : for Buffalo, 
to Francis Brill ; for Hooker, to Francis Brill, SI each. 
Special premiums were .twarded to Geo. Perry & 
Son, Georgetown, Conn., $2, and to W. H. Romeyn, 
Kingston, N. Y., for promising new Seedlings, and to 
Geo. Herbert, Peekskill, N. Y., $1, for fruit of very fine 
La Constante. 
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