1849. 
THE CULTIVATOR. 
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clean, or by a careful removal of the new seedlings be¬ 
fore they have attained much size. 
Strawberries for Market® 
The following interesting statement of the actual 
productiveness of some celebrated sorts of strawberry, 
we copy from the Genesee Farmer. This information 
is the more valuable, as giving the result of a large ex¬ 
periment in a region where the strawberry culture has 
not as yet been very extensively adopted, and with all 
the accuracy of real measurement: 
u Messrs. Bissell, Hooker & Sloane have also 
supplied the market largely. In a little over 2 weeks 
they have sold about two hundred bushels of fruit, not¬ 
withstanding the cautions of the ‘ Board of Health. 7 
Their varieties for marketing were Hovey's Seedling, 
Crimson Cone, and Large Early Scarlet —the latter 
being their standard sort, according to their experience, 
by far the most profitable. From abed measuring 119 
rods of ground, they have picked upwards of 109 bush¬ 
els of this fruit.” 
New Seedlings.— -The same paper contains descrip¬ 
tions of 22 new varieties of the strawberry, raised by 
Elwanger &. Barry, of Rochester, and selected from 
about one thousand new seedlings, mostly crosses be¬ 
tween Hovey’s Seedling and Large Early Scarlet. 
These descriptions are given in a report of the Fruit 
Committee of the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. 
Having had an opportunity of examining these new 
seedlings when in full bearing, the writer can add his 
testimony to their fine quality and extraordinary pro¬ 
ductiveness. They have now borne two years. New 
varieties, it is true, are to be received with great cau¬ 
tion, but we cannot but believe that some of these may, 
at least for this latitude, prove eminently valuable. 
We copy the following descriptions from the report of 
the committee-.-— 
5. Pistillate, a very large fruit, color a light scarlet, 
with dark seeds, shape mostly round, very juicy, im¬ 
mense bearer, (108 berries were counted on one root) 
a first rate berry, thought by some of the committee, 
the best of the lot. 
6. Pistillate, regulary round shaped, much like the 
last, thought as good a bearer, and as juicy, but not 
quite so fine flavored. 
9. Pistillate, a great bearer, juicy and high-flavored, 
a deep, bright, glossy scarlet, an excellent table fruit. 
11. Pistillate, medium size, very dark scarlet, very 
juicy, high and somewhat musky flavor, good table 
fruit, medium bearer. 
14. Pistillate, a great bearer, short-necked, high-fla¬ 
vored, very juicy, size above medium, thought the best 
of all the varieties. 
16. Pistillate, flavor much like No. 14. 
22. Color a beautiful orange scarlet, an excellent ta¬ 
ble fruit, being tart, very large, and a very good bear¬ 
er, and valuable for its lateness. 
To the report of the committee, P. Barry, Hort. 
Editor of the Farmer, appends the following remarks: 
From the above collection, Messrs. Elwanger & 
Barry have selected five sorts, wfiich they consider 
eminently worthy of cultivation, combining large size, 
fair quality, with extraordinary productiveness. 
They have borne for two years, beside the best known 
varieties, and under the same conditions, and have, so 
far, surpassed them all in productiveness. They cannot 
say how r they may succeed in other localities, but here 
Messrs. E. & B. feel confident they will prove valuable. 
The following are the names of varieties chosen:— 
No. 6, Monroe Scarlet; 11, New Necked Pine; 16, 
Climax Scarlet, 22, Orange Prolific. 
We published a few months since, the description of 
a mode of supporting climbing’ plants, on the trunk of 
a cedar tree, armed with short side branches from bot¬ 
tom to top. We give, in the above figure, another 
mode of effecting the same object in a more simple 
manner, which may be advantageously adopted where 
the cedar supports cannot be obtained, and which, if of 
durable w T ood, will last a long time. It is not, howev¬ 
er, suited to the more delicate climbers, as these would 
hardly assume a sufficient breadth of growth; but for 
roses, bignonias, and the more rampant growers, it is ad¬ 
mirably adapted. 
It is made of a piece of scantling, set upright like a 
post, in the earth, and pierced with holes at a distance 
of about a foot from each other. Through these holes 
the growing shoots are inserted as they advance up¬ 
wards in growth, running them in opposite directions 
through the same hole, and at the same time occasion¬ 
ally twining them around the post, so as to conceal its 
surface. This mode of support has for some years 
been adopted by David Thomas, of Aurora, Cayuga 
county, and from a specimen upon his grounds, the 
above figure was drawn. The double Prairie, or Mi¬ 
chigan roses, the Boursalts, and the taller growing hy¬ 
brid China roses, are well adapted to these sorts of pil¬ 
lars, and the intermingling of the various shades of co¬ 
lor, produces a very pleasing appearance. 
The Seckel Fear. 
This variety of the pear possesses more than ordina¬ 
ry interest for several reasons. Usually, it is remarka¬ 
ble for withstanding the blight. It is the highest fla¬ 
vored pear known. And so uniform is its excellence in 
all localities, that the fruit committee of the American 
Congress of Fruit Growers, unanimously pronounced it 
worthy of general cultivation, a compliment which no 
other of the thousand pears, except the Bartlett, re¬ 
ceived. It holds about the same rank with pears, as 
the Green Gag.e with plums. 
The original tree still stands on the banks of the De¬ 
laware, three and a-half miles below Philadelphia. 
According to Dr. Brinckle, it is about thirty feet high, 
two feet in diameter within a foot of the ground, and 
sixteen inches, higher up. It stands in a pasture with¬ 
out protection, and the trunk is hollow and decayed on 
one side. 
