AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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WINNERS OF PRIZE FOR THREE LARGEST BERRIES—TRIOMPHE DE GAUD. 
nety. The outline with the large berries is that 
of the largest, from another point of view. 
This exhibition, like others already held and 
purposed to be held in the office of the American 
Agriculturist, was undertaken solely with a view 
to advance the knowledge of an important sub¬ 
ject, deserving the intelligent appreciation and 
investigation of the public; and except so far as 
it is an advantage to the Agriculturist to be 
recognized as earnest, wide-awake, and dis¬ 
criminating in all these matters, we sought no 
selfish ends. Our tables were offered free to 
any who would exhibit, and the decision of a 
wise and fair committee, very satisfactorily dis¬ 
tributed the prizes offered where they were cer¬ 
tainly due. It was therefore with no little sur¬ 
prise that we found notices appearing in one 
and another of our city cotemporaries, and in 
the Country Gentleman, reflecting both upon the 
management, and upon the exhibitors, stating 
that half the latter were not present in time for 
the examination, greatly extolling the berries 
of Prince* Co., and giving the impression that, 
the fruit of those who came too late by far sur¬ 
passed the others. Nothing could be more false, 
for not a single person who intended to show 
for a prize, failed to have his berries here 
promptly. We have traced these lying notices 
to their source; of: their author—a man who 
would benefit himself by detracting from the 
fairly won laurels of others—we have nothing 
to say; but must express our surprise at the 
ungenerous notice, which our usually gentlemanly 
agricultural cotemporary gives “ The Strawber¬ 
ry Exhibition in New-York.” • 
LIST OF ENTRIES. 
Prof. Huntsman, Flushing, L. I.—Seedling 
John Rassbach,West Bloomfield, N. J.—Ward’s Seedling. 
Mrs. M. Fryer, Newtown, L. 1. -Wilson’s Albany. 
Parsons & Co., Flushing, L. 1.—Gutter Seedling, Tri- 
omphe de Gand. 
Patrick Ryan, gardener to J. B. Colgate, Esq., 47 Wall- 
st., New-York.—Trollope, Triomphe tie Gand, Austin. 
II. E. Legg, Kingston, N. Y.—Wilson’s Albany. 
John Drummond, gardener to Mrs. J. H. Strong, Flush¬ 
ing, L. I.—Black Prince, Wilson’s Albany, Jenny Lind, 
Triomphe de Gand,White (Bicton Pine), 3 large berries. 
Win. A. Burgess, Glen Cove, L. I.—Four new seedlings 
—No. 8 A, No. 8 B, (Garibaldi), No. 8 C,.(Gen. Scott,) 
No. 8 D, (Little Monitor). 
G. H. Banta, Tappantown, N. Y.—Wilson’s Albany. 
E. & G. Marshall, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Wilson’s Al¬ 
bany, Great Austin, Triomphe de Gand, Longworth’s. 
Golden Seeded, Voorhies’ Seedling, Scott’s Seedling, 
Peabody, Ward’s Favorite, Monroe Scarlet, Princess 
Frederick William, Gen. Havelock, Delices d’Automne, 
Jenny’s Seedling, Trollope’s Victoria, Pyramidal Chil¬ 
ian, Hovey, Willey, Fragrant Scarlet, Westchester, 
Bicton Pine, Scarlet Magnate, Elton, Dundee, Hunts¬ 
man’s Pistillate, Duchesse, Feast’s Fillmore, Imperial 
Scarlet, Due de Brabant, Iowa, McAvoy’s Extra Red, 
Hooker, La Belle Bordelaise, Black Prince, Brighton 
Pine,Walker’s Seedling, Boston Pine, Madame Louese, 
Crimson Cone, Downer’s- Prolific, Prince’s Climax, 
Large Early Scarlet, Ohio Mammoth, Bullett, Chorlton 
Prolific, Genesee, DeThury, Jenny Lind, British 
Queen—(48 varieties.) 
E. Williams, West Bloomfield, N. Y.—Triomphe de 
Gand, Ward’s Favorite, Hovey, Wilson’s Albany,. 
Trollope’s Victoria, (variety for name,) Great Austin,- 
Scott’s Seedling, Ilonneur de Belgique, Due de Bra¬ 
bant, Iowa, Black Prince, Genesee, Ward’s Favorite, 
Boston Pine, Moyamensing, Jenny Lind, Early Scarlet,’ 
Pennsylvania, New Richmond, Monroe Scarlet, Orange' 
Prolific, Scarlet Cone, Crimson Cone—(25 varieties). 
Wm. F. Heins, Woodstock, N. Y.—Hooker, Sir Harry, 
Triomphe de Gand, Great Austin, Victoria, Langstroth 
Improved, Wilson’s Albany, Pyramidal Chilian, Cut¬ 
ter’s Seedling,-Longworth’s Prolific, Scott’s Seedling, 
Chorlton’s Prolific, Jenny Lind, Boyden’s Mammoth, 
McAvoy’s Superior, Peabody, Ladies’ Pine, Scarlet 
Runner, Bartlett, Early Scarlet, Downer’s Prolific, Le 
Baron, Walker’s Seedling, Prince Diadem, Athlete, 
Vicorhptesse Hericart, White Pine Apple, Albion, Len- 
nig’s White, (new seedling, 2 seedlings for competition 
of flavor—(32 varieties). 
C. S. Pell, N. Y. Orphan Asylum.—Wilson’s Albany, 
Great Austin, Triomphe de Gand, White Alpine. 
Wm. H. Goldsmith.—Hooker. 
A. S. Fuller, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Seedling, Triomphe de 
Gand, Trollope’s Victoria, Downer’s Prolific, Deptford 
White, Duke de Malakoff, Monte St. Julien. 
Solon Robinsoii, Yonkers, N. Y.—Wilson’s Albany. 
Wm. Kearns, gardener to Wm. Shaw, Clifton, Staten 
Island,’N. Y.—Long worth’s Prolific, Wilson's Albany. 
John Boyce, Fishkill, N. Y.—Triomphe tie Gand—(three 
large berries). 
C. M. Saxton, N. Y.-Mead’s Seedling-fexhibition.) 
J. C. Thompson, Staten Island, N. Y.—Downer’s Pro¬ 
lific, Great Austin, Triomphe de Gand. 
J. Noble, Bowronville, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Four varieties. 
W. R. Prince & Co., Flushing, L. I.—Ariadne, American 
May Queen, Great Austin, Chili Hybrid, Diadem, B«w- 
ner’s Prolific, Fortunatus, Hooker, Hovey, Hudson’s 
Bay, Fillmore, Globose Scarlet, Imperial Scarlet, 
Iphigene, Jenny Lind, Ladies’ Pine, Longworth’s Pro¬ 
lific, Le Baron (Pine), Malvina, McAvdy’s Superibr, 
McAvoy’s No. 1, Ophelia, Perfumed, Cone, Primate, 
Prince’s Late Globose, Scarlet Melting,. Scaviet Prize, 
Scarlet Magnate, Sirius', Scarlet Globose, Barnard’s Il¬ 
linois, Stewart, Suprema, Victorine, Welcome, .White 
Pine Apple, Seedlings (No. 1, 12, 13, 15. 18, 21, 23, 26, 
28, 34, 38, 42, 45, 48), Bijou ties Fraises HautPois,-Belle 
Bordelaise Hautbois, Male Hautbois, Green Pine Apple, 
Alpine Monthly White, La Mendonnaise.SUpine,’ Mont¬ 
real! Wood, English Ladies’ Finger, Comptesse de 
Beaumont, La Sultane, Lucas, La Constante, Margue¬ 
rite, Orb; Oscar, Prince Imperial, Rifleman (Ingram), 
Vieomptesse Hericart, Wizard of the North, : Empress 
Eugenie, Triomphe de Gand—(57 varieties, besides 
the seedlings) (for exhibition.) ' 
An Amateur.—Scott’s Seedling. 
George F. Meyer.—Hovey’s Seedling. 
L. M. Pease, N. Y. Farm School.—Triomphe de Gand, 
Wilson’s Albany, (very superior). 
D. P. Usher, Staten Island, N. Y.—Peabody. 
Wm. Parry, Cinnaminson, N. J.—Triomphe de Gaiid. 
F. P. Sanford, Orange, N. J.—Triomphe de Gand; 
Mr. England, Bushwic.k, L. I.—Gooseberries. ’ 
Alfred Waller, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Whitesniith’s Goose¬ 
berries. 
A. S. Fuller, Brooklyn, N. Y.—Cherries for name. 
Charles Mandeworth, Dutchess Co., N. Y.—Cucumbers. 
A. Bridgeman, New-York.—Six pots Gloxinia, very beau¬ 
tiful. 
What Blackberry shall we Cultivate? 
None, say we, very decidedly, unless you have 
room for them, and will take care of them. We 
have plenty of wild fruit, in most years, of very 
fair quality, and unless we can get a steady sup¬ 
ply of a superior article in our gardens, it were 
better to plant them with cabbage and sweet 
corn. These are certain to have room enough, 
and to be cultivated. 
We are afraid many who have purchased 
plants, the last few years, under the induce¬ 
ments of pictures and advertisements, have 
made poor investments, not because we have 
any doubts of the excellence of the friiit, but of 
the good sense and skill of the purchasers’.. It 
will take years of experience and choked plants 
to get rid of the popular notion that, because a 
blackberry plant takes care of itself in the pas¬ 
ture, it will do the same in the garden, and yield 
good crops. It will do nothing, of the sort. 
Neglect the best variety, and it will give not 
much better results than wild plants—a little 
fruit on one plant out of a dozen, in years of av¬ 
erage moisture. We say then, unless you have 
a place in your garden that you can give up en¬ 
tirely to this plant, do not waste time and money 
in buying plants. They should be attached to 
trellises or wires, as this supports the lateral 
shoots much better than stakes. Most of the 
fruit grows on these laterals, and where they do 
well, they need support on account of the weight 
of the fruit. Trained in this way, it is easy to 
do the shortening-in at this season, with the 
thumb and finger, and to throw the energies of 
the plant into fruit-buds for next season. 
The New-Kochelle very generally does well, 
and gives satisfaction, to pains-taking cultiva¬ 
tors. It is acid if picked before ripe enough to 
drop off, and it decays if neglected too long— 
the canes are sometimes winter-killed—charges 
that may be brought against other very good 
varieties of fruit. The fact that it has become 
so widely disseminated in so short a time, is a 
pretty good test of merit. It, however, fails 
in some soils and climates, with the best care. 
