den Committee of that society visited the 
Reading Nursery and awarded the Society’s 
Silver Medal to Mr. Manning for introduc¬ 
ing a New Dwarf Arbor Vitae, and per¬ 
mitted him to name the same. He ac¬ 
cordingly named it Woodward, in honor of 
< >ne of his sons. 
Our cut. which is no fancy sketch but 
taken from a Photograph, shows the size of 
the trees by the side of a spade. They are 
very dwarf and require no pruning. For 
the border of walks in large yards it is a su¬ 
perior plant as it takes many years to at¬ 
tain much size. Mr. Manning informs us 
that plants 20 years old are not four feet 
high. It is also used to mark the lines of 
town lots where no fences or large hedges 
are wanted and looks beautifully when set 
alone. It is easily transplanted, has a glob¬ 
ular or egg-shaped head and brillian t green 
foliage. Taken altogether it is one of the 
most remarkable varieties of Arbor Vitae. 
The “James Vick” Strawberry. 
BY C. A. GREEN, CLIFTON, N. Y. 
A few Rochester horticulturists were in¬ 
vited to visit our place July 5th last, to see 
the new strawberry James Vick, in bearing. 
The day being rainy we gave up hopes of 
their coming, but the noon train brought 
W. C. Barry, late president of the Nursery¬ 
man’s association, P. C. Reynolds, long sec¬ 
retary of Western New York Horticultural 
society and horticultural editor of the 
American Rural Home, the Vick Brothers, 
representing the firm of James Vick, John 
Charlton, the disseminator of the Pockling- 
ton grape, and the veteran fruit grower and 
propagator, Josiah Salter. 
They were first shown rows of the new 
strawberry from plants set late the previous 
fall, growing in the same bed with Man¬ 
chester and Bid well. The new 1 jerry show¬ 
ed twice the fruit of either Bidwell or Man¬ 
chester, and more vigor of plant. The par¬ 
ty were next shown a plat of about one- 
fourth acre, not manured for many years, 
common farm soil in the midst of a field of 
twenty acres of fruit, on which the new 
strawberry had been permitted to form 
wide and thick matted rows for the purpose 
of multiplying plants, from the whole of 
which plants had been dug a few months 
previous, tearing and loosening the roots of 
those remaining. The soil was packed hard 
and very weedy, showing evidence of neg¬ 
lect, yet under such adverse circumstances, 
which would lead one to expect no fruit 
worth gathering, the plants were thickly 
studded, and the rows fairly ablaze with 
large, beautifully and evenly colored, firm 
and shapely berries of superior quality, and 
from the bed was subsequently picked the 
largest yield of fruit ever gathered from 
any variety on our fruit farm. Mr. W. C, 
Barry said that of all the new strawberries 
he had tested this was the most promising. 
He described the color as bright scarlet 
turning to crinson, surface glazed, seeds on 
surface, season medium, quality good. All 
the party expressed themselves as highly 
pleased with the display of fruit, and ate it 
with a good relish. We heard no criticism, 
and indeed, there could be none. Theplant 
was vigorous, with large glossy dark green 
foliage, the blossoms hermaphrodite (or per¬ 
fect), the fruit handsome, large, luscious, 
firm, and in great adundanee. We tested 
them under this rough treatment purposely. 
A nursed plant in a manure heap is no test 
of a variety—place it under hardships and 
see what it will accomplish has been my 
theory. 
The party returned to Rochester and 
were invited to visit a small plantation 
there of the James Vick fruiting under hill 
culture, the rows lying between bearing 
grape vines, not the most desirable position 
as the grape roots must have occupied the 
entire soil. Here a sight met their eyes 
that they could not have anticipated, and 
such a display as probably was never before 
made by any strawberry on earth. The 
stools were large and vigorous, and around 
each was a pyramid of ripe berries piled 
one on another like a walled fort, and so 
thickly together a bug could hardly lpive 
crawled into the enclosure made by the 
fruit without climbing the barricade. Ber¬ 
ries on every plant were “uniformly of 
o-ood size," as was remarked by Secretary 
P. C. Reynolds. The fruit stems were long 
and stout, but could not sustain the great 
burden imposed upon them, (often 12 to 18 
