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The foliage is remarkably strong, leathery, and of a pe- 
culiar dark green, glossy hue. This is a splendid variety 
for family use, as well as for market. Very productive, 
when impregnated with a hermaphrodite variety. 
Jenvy Lind {H)—Ont of the earliest, rather large, 
conical, light starlet, with a fine flavor. Very productive 
for its sex, and an excellent early market fruit, though 
more soft than the Eo,rly Oravge It is entirely super- 
seding the Early Scarlet at the North. 
Iowa (iJ) — A seedling from the West, quite early, 
large, broad, and of a peculiar light orange color. The 
flesh is quite firm and elastic, and on that account bears 
carriage well. 
Longvwrth's Prolific {H.) — Large, roundish, early ; has 
the quality of ripening many berries at once, which makes 
it valuable as a market fruit, while its exquisite flavor 
renders it desirable for family use. All the blossoms ex- 
panding nearly at once, it is not to be recommended as an 
irapregnator. 
Lucy Fitch (P.) — Originated in Michigan, and takes it 
name, I believe, after the lady in whose garden it first was 
noticed. Berry medium size, round, orange scarlet, well 
flavored, and produced in very large trusses or clusters. 
Its flower is a remarkably small and delicate Pistillate. It 
comes in by the middle of the season, is very productive, 
and remarkable: for throwing out a great many runners at 
the same time that it is bearing a heavy crop of fruit. 
McAvoy's Sxipejior {P.) — Very large, equal in size to 
Hovey's Seedling, roundish, glossy crimson, high flavored, 
and very productive. It is an excellent fruit for family 
use, and a near market, but being rather soft and tender, 
it will not bear carriage so well as several other varieties. 
In a strong soil, with plenty of impregnators, and when 
well supplied with water, it will, like Hovey's Seedling, 
throw up a succession of flowers, and yield fruit for a 
long time in succession 
Peabody's Haulbois (H) — This new Southern Seedling, 
originated by Chas. A. Peabody, Esq , was for the first 
time disseminated late this winter, and it would, there- 
fore, not be fair, as yet, to judge of its quality. It is. 
however, so far, promising well. The berry is large and 
very highly flavored. Its foliage and growth are very 
luxuriant, and although it probably will not be so pro- 
ductive as the Pistillate varieties, it bids far to prove the 
best Southern variety yet introduced. 
Scott’s Seedling (H.) — Oblong, much pointed, beautiful 
crimson, rich and melting; productive for its sex, a vig- 
orous variety. 
Walker’s Seedling {Hi) — Medium size, conical, very 
dark crimson color when fully ripe. Its flavor is exceed- 
ingly rich. 
Victoria [Trollope’s'] (H.) — One of the very few Eng- 
lish varieties that has proved any acquisition in the South. 
Berries often of a monstrous size, broad conical, obtuse 
pointed. Color light orange, seeds rather large. It is a 
magnificent fruit, and yields a fair crop. 
We have also Wilson’s Albany, Boyden’s Seedling, Gen- 
esee Seedling, Hooker’s Seedling, and many more new va- 
rieties in culiivation here, which, however, have not yet 
been rested sufficiently to recommend them to the public. 
In the North, and still more so in the West, the cultiva- 
tion of the Strawberry is carried on profitably, and to a 
great extent. Fifty bushels of Strawberries to the acre is 
a fair arerage crop about Cincinnati, and by high cuhure 
this yield may even be considerably increased. 
Robkrt Nklson. 
Fndtlamd. Nursery, Angnsta. Go , June, 1857. 
The Oi,D Pear Tree —The New York Daily Times, of 
May 1-3, says, the the Stuyvescent Pear tree, corner of 
Thii'teenlh-st and Third avenue, is white with blossoms 
Tlie Knickerbockers should mak-e a pilgrimage to see the 
flee old relic in its glory. 
PEARS ON TIIE HAW HTOCK. 
Editors Southern Cui-tivator— Attention having 
been much attracted of late to this delicious fruit, too long 
neglected at the South, 1 would suggest to those who wish 
to enjoy it without waiting too long, the use of the com- 
mon red fruited Haw, so abundant in our wood.-s and old 
fields as stock, to graft upon. From experience of sev- 
eral years, I give it a decided preference over the Quince 
or the Pear stock, for the following reasons: 
1st. It throws out no troublesome suckers or runners, 
which we all know to be a serious inconvenience to say 
the least. 
2d. A Pear grafted on the Haw will bear the 3d or 4th 
year, and often the 2d year from the graft. 
3d. The Haw will derive nourishment and thrive as 
we all know, on any of our poor sandy soils, where the 
Quince or Pear would starve and dwindle away, as they 
require rich soil to grow and produce as they should. 
4th. The Haw grows from the seed, which is easily 
procured, if planted as soon as ripe, or any number of 
healthy young trees can be taken up from the woods, 
grafted and set out. 
Lastly. It is a much stronger stock than the Quince. 
I have for several years enjoyed delicious Pears grown 
on the Haw, while the original imported parents on Quince 
have scarcely proved themselves, indeed some of them 
have not yet borne. 
Some Pears will not do on Quince ; whether this will 
also be the case on the Haw, experience alone can teach. 
So far, all that I have tried have done well. 
I do not advise, of course, to reject either the Quince 
or the Pear ; on the contrary, I make use of both, and only 
propose the Haw as a powerful auxilliary in rearing an 
orchard. 
A very dwarfish species of Haw, not more than two or 
three feet high, will give true dwarf Pears, which will an- 
swer for a small garden, or probably for a large box or 
jar. In the same way will a Peach budded on the small 
double-flowering Almond, so common in every flower 
garden, never attain more than three or four feet in heighth 
and sometimes much less, forming a perfect little tree, and 
bearing large and beautiful fruit. I have tried it and suc- 
ceeded perfectly. 
[Our correspondent is an experienced Fruit Growers, 
and his testimony should induce a further trial of the Haw 
as a stock for the Pear. We have, already, the Italian 
Dwarf Peach, which is very small, and w’orthy of a place 
as a curiosity. The doubling-flowering Almond can be 
made available as ‘‘A. C.” suggests, when it is desirable 
to dwarf particular varieties —Eds.] 
appee and pear beight. 
Editors Southern Cultivator— As this will be a 
year long to be remembered as one causing great destruc- 
tion by blight, and as many of your readers will, no 
doubt, like some explanation as to its cause and action, 
I am induced me to give what practical knowledge I have 
gained by close observation in the matter. 
Blight is undoubttdly caused by an excess of potassa 
(or soda) liberated by extreme cold during our past se- 
vere winter, or by culture, or the coiosive action ftom 
disengaged gases from decomposing vegetation. Itmat- 
leis not which of the three causes affect this result, the 
effect is one and the same. 
Plants, under a certain condition, absorb a greater 
quantity of alk.aline solutions than is essential for their 
well doing — in oilier wurd.‘^, they carry into their circula- 
tory system extraneous substance.*-:, and again a greater 
quar.tuy of alkalies than their assimilations can absorb u> 
