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a general rule, buds cut near the close of summer 
will remain uninjured nearly twice as long as when cut 
five or six weeks earlier. Cool w T eather is more favor¬ 
able than hot. Buds of any sort should not be usually 
cut, unless sufficiently matured to keep safely for five 
or six days. 
Buds may be sent by mail in a letter, by wrapping 
them closely in thin oil-silk, so as to enclose perfectly 
all the moisture; or they may be preserved in larger 
packages for express, in fine, moderately moist saw¬ 
dust, but not so large as to favor fermentation, which 
would spoil them. 
Strawberries—Extracts from Correspondence. 
The diversity of opinion relative to the merits of dif¬ 
ferent varieties of the strawberry, is doubtless owing 
to the peculiarities of climate as well as of culture. 
The results obtained by experienced cultivators in dif¬ 
ferent localities, hence become valuable in enabling us 
to assign to each variety its true position:— 
F. R. Elliott, of Cleveland, Ohio, says “ I regard 
the variety known as the Willey* as being superior in all 
respects for general culture. As regards its product¬ 
iveness, I consider it a variety that will yield, when 
grown in common soil, and with common every-day, 
kitchen-garden care, two quarts to one, of any other 
variety I have tested, except the Dundee. In size, it 
is only medium between Hovey’s Seedling and Old Scar¬ 
let. Next to this in point of productiveness, (as grown 
in common garden soil,) I consider the Dundee. Next, 
Hovey’s Seedling ; and this variety, if given extra sti¬ 
mulus in soil and culture, will yield a large product. 
But such can rarely be looked for, and as it is somewhat 
tender, not well withstanding winter rigors unless slight¬ 
ly protected, I do not regard it valuable, except where 
the same stimulus is given it which was given the original 
plants in Hovey’s garden. Burr’s Seedling [staminate] 
is a fine fruit, of. size between Hovey’s and Cincinnati 
Hudson, of a good flavor, and bears about the same as 
Ross’ Phoenix. Myatt’s Eliza I regard as the best and 
highest flavored berry grown, but two years’ trial have 
induced doubts as to its productiveness.! In flavor, it 
has no equal. 
A. H. Ernst, of Cincinnati, (President of Cincinnati 
Horticultural Society, has favored us with the following 
remarks on some celebrated varieties :— u The Black 
Prince, of which so much has been said, has disap¬ 
pointed us very much; the plants are not hardy enough 
for our hot summers’ sun, and changeable winters. It 
cannot, therefore, be worth much to us. Jenny’s 
Seedling has proved perfectly hardy, a prolific grower, 
late bloomer, large trusses of medium but uniform siz¬ 
ed fruit, with a sharp acid, but fine flavor. The flesh 
is firm, which is a desirable point for a market fruit. I 
think it will prove pne of the best of the numerous sorts. 
It is a pistillate, originating at Boston. Burr’s new 
strawberries , as with most other new sorts, have been 
overrated. His New Pine, I think, will prove a great 
disappointment, as it is hermaphrodite, that is, having 
pistils and stamens in the same bloom. It will fruit, 
but this can never be so large or so numerous as that 
of a pistillate.^: 
“ Our Old Hudson still stands unrivalled for the mar¬ 
ket gardener. No other sort, with the rude treatment 
it receives, will produce so much large and fine fruit. 
This is quite a consideration in a country where the re¬ 
finements of cultivation have as yet hardly made an en¬ 
trance.” 
Thomas S. Pleasants, an eminent practical horti¬ 
* And which closely resembles the Old Hudson of Cincinnati, 
t We have found it so unproductive as to be of no value, 
t In Western N. Y. it has proved very productive, but needs 
further trial. 
culturist of Petersburgh, Va., says, “ This fruit attains 
to great perfection in this climate, and is of the easiest 
culture. The most productive varieties are the Scar¬ 
lets, the organs of which are, I believe in all cases, 
perfect. Hovey’s Seedling sometimes bears great crops, 
but not uniformly. Keene’s Seedling is a shy bearer, 
but the fruit is enormously large. All productive kinds 
do well. 
Dr. W. D. Brinckle, of Philadelphia, says, 11 The 
Early Scarlet, Hudson, and Hovey’s Seedling, are the 
kinds chiefly cultivated here; and are fine varieties. 
Still finer are the true Keene’s Seedling and Ross’ Phoe¬ 
nix, but they are unproductive and too tender for our cli¬ 
mate.” 
Management of Young Apple Orchards. 
The following mode of treatment of a young apple 
orchard, transplanted in the spring of 1848, by which 
all lived and made a vigorous growth, has been furnish¬ 
ed by J. Talcott, of Rome, N. Y.— 
Last year the ground was planted w 7 ith potatoes; in 
the fall, after the crop was off, it had a heavy top-dres¬ 
sing of horse manure, drawn from the village and 
plowed under. The trees were earthed up to protect 
them from mice. This spring, the ground was cross- 
plowed, and it is now sown to carrots, parsnips, onions, 
and some beans planted among them; the ground has 
been forked around the trees for a circle of about five 
feet. They are making a fine growth. The stems have 
been washed with diluted soft soap. 
Horticultural Items. 
Tender Shrubs. —D. Thomas, in his Buffalo Ad¬ 
dress, says, “ Some shrubs suffer much from exposure 
to cold winds. In the open ground, the White Ant¬ 
werp raspberry has been much injured—while ten rods 
under the lee of red cedars, it has done well. The 
common laburnum may illustrate the same doctrine. 
One which stood in a door-yard, exposed to the west 
winds, was damaged every winter, until a building was 
erected very near it, so as completely to shelter it on 
that side, and from that time, during seven years, it 
has not been injured.” 
Shade Trees. —Hill’s Monthly Visitor states that 
two elm trees, two inches in diameter, were transplant¬ 
ed in 1836, and in 1847 were 45 inches in circumfer¬ 
ence, or 14 inches in diameter. The elm in that region 
is of very rapid growth. In a less favorable locality, a 
gentleman has raised elm trees with little care, five 
inches in diameter in eleven years, from seed. On ac¬ 
count of the better and thriftier growth of seedlings 
raised in the garden, some have found that shade trees 
could be obtained as soon from seed, as by transplant¬ 
ing from the woods. This is the season for looking out 
for the seed. 
Fruit at the South. —A correspondent of the 
Southern Cultivator (Ga.) says, “ There are annual 
importations of fruit trees of the choicest varieties, 
from France and England, and from the Northern States. 
I have planted apples, pears, plums, apricots and al¬ 
monds from France, and peaches and nectarines from 
the North; and of the whole, there is not one tree that 
has borne fruit equal in quality or quantity to our common 
native kinds.” This is, doubtless, generally true—there 
are, however, a very few exceptions. 
The attempt has been made to introduce exotic 
grapes largely at the South, with the belief that they 
would be peculiarly suited to the milder climate of that 
part of the country; but for out-door culture, they suc¬ 
ceed even worse than at the North, being eminently 
liable to the rot and mildew. 
European Nurseries. —According to the statements 
of P. Barry, some of the most eminent European nur- 
