HOVEY’S STRAWBERRY.—ENORMOUS EGG. 
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The foregoing remarks prove that agriculture, so 
far from being a mere business of drudgery and toil, 
is of all the arts known to man one of the most sci¬ 
entific and elevating, and that the sooner our farm¬ 
ers are educated up to their business the better for 
our country. The first and primary object should 
be an accurate analysis of all plants required for 
cultivation, including the elementary and solid por¬ 
tions of eaeh variety. The second necessary step 
will be to issue tables of contents of all the known 
fertilizers, giving their component parts, and de¬ 
scribing their effect on vegetation. 
There may be some difficulty in persuading our 
lawrocratic legislature who have been educated 
at the expense of the farmer, to reciprocate the 
favor; but our farmers have only to will it, and 
they can command ample justice. 
Wm. Partridge. 
Herewith is a wood cut of 
Hovey’s Seedling Strawberry, 
which may be depended on as 
perfectly exact. The leaf was 
transferred to the wood by an 
impression taken on paper from 
the real one. The berry was 
copied from that in Hovey’s 
Magazine, and represents one 
of the largest size to which any 
have yet attained. Under ordi¬ 
nary cultivation many of them 
grow from three to four inches 
in circumference. 
If any of your readers are de¬ 
sirous of seeing some of the 
largest size, they can be grat¬ 
ified by attending to the follow¬ 
ing directions. Take large, 
thrifty plants, first runners, and 
transplant them into a rich, 
deep soil, one foot apart each 
way; keep all the runners 
trimmed off, and the ground 
loose. The next season clip 
off all but two or three of the 
first blossoms on each plant, 
not forgetting to have a few 
plants of another variety (same 
class,) with staminate flowers, 
in their vicinity. To such as 
are not botanists, the following 
cuts may be of use. 
HOVEY’S STRAWBERRY. 
Hovey’s Seedling Strawberry.—Fig. 28. 
Female Flower, Fig. 29. Male Flower, Fig. 30. 
Philetus Phillips. 
Middletown Point , April 10 th, 1844. 
For further particulars regarding this superb 
strawberry see advertisement. Its culture is rap¬ 
idly spreading, and we believe that it is consider¬ 
ed, by amateurs, the best of all the large kinds 
grown in the United States. Mr. Hovey’s success 
in producing this strawberry, shows the importance 
of paying greater attention to seedling fruits; we 
do not know why we should be so dependent on 
foreign countries for these things. 
ENORMOUS EGG. 
In the March number of your periodical under 
the head of Foreign Agricultural News, I noticed 
an account of an “ enormous egg” laid by a goose 
in Quermore, near Lancaster, England, which 
measured 8| inches round, longitudinal circumfer¬ 
ence 10£ inches, and weighed 10 ounces. The 
size and weight of the goose is not stated—but I 
suppose she was a large one. Now, much as I 
am inclined to acknowledge the superiority of old 
England in most particulars, still, she is not the 
only country productive of great geese and large 
eggs. 
Mr. Lewis G. Thurston, of Huntington, Long 
Island, owns a goose which laid an egg on the 4th 
of this month, which weighed 10| ounces, longi¬ 
tudinal circumference Ilf inches, and measured 
8| inches round. Let all other American geese 
emulate the example here set befell them. S* 
New York, March 16,1844, 
