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out after the first of autumn, are liable to be thrown 
out by winter frost. 
South and west, the best variety perhaps, for 
market, is the Cincinnati Hudson. It flourishes 
and bears profusely with very moderate care. In 
N. England it does not flourish quite so well. Ho- 
vey’s Seedling makes the finest show after it has 
been picked, but is not sufficiently productive under 
ordinary treatment. The sort most generally pre¬ 
ferred for its delicious quality, and not even except¬ 
ing Swainstone’s Seedling, is Burr’s New Pine. It 
is rather large, quite productive, but too delicate in 
texture to carry to market. The Large Early 
Scarlet is the best very early sort, and the Dundee 
a fine late variety. Boston Pine if kept in hills, is 
large, fine in quality, and very productive. Black 
Prince is a fine, mild flavored sort, large and tole¬ 
rably productive. ___ 
Disagreement of Doctors. 
There arc some fruits whose qualities meet with 
almost universal approval, while there are others 
about which there is a most singular diversity of 
opinion. One of the 
most striking instan¬ 
ces of the latter, is 
furnished by the dis¬ 
cussions on the Black 
Prince strawberry, 
as reported in the 
Proceedings of the 
Second Congress of 
Fruit Growers: 
“Mr. Saul propo¬ 
sed to add to the list 
of strawberries the 
Bloch Prince. Black Prince. . He 
had known it for ten years, and esteemed it the 
highest flavored of all. It was a very good bearer, 
remarkably hardy and endured the the winter much 
better than most other varieties. It had as many 
desirable qualities as any he knew of. 
“Mr. Downing had great pleasure in bearing 
testimony to the good qualities of this strawberry. 
He preferred its flavor to that of any other variety. 
It was, as Mr. Saul had said, a hardy and an ex¬ 
cellent bearer, and the berries were large and hand¬ 
some. He could safely recommend it. 
“Mr. Lines had procured it on Mr. Downing’s 
abundant bearer, with a handsome berry ; but it 
was the most insipid fruit he ever tasted. He was 
surprised that so handsome a berry should be so 
tasteless. The fruit would hardly bear gathering, 
it melted so easily in the fingers. 
“Col. Hodge had fruited it for three or four years, 
Its flavor was not so good and the crop not so abun¬ 
dant with him as other gentlemen seemed to have 
found them. 
“Mr. Hamilton said that with him it was one of 
the very best, and certainly had the highest flavor 
of any. 
“Mr. Manice had it from Mr. Downing, and 
found it the poorest strawberry he had ever culti¬ 
vated. 
“Mr. Miller considered it at the head of all in 
point of flavor. 
“Mr. Battey, of Keeseville, N. Y., had been 
much disappointed in the quality of this fruit. It 
was worthless, dry and insipid, and with him the 
plant was a poor bearer. 
“Mr. S. B. Parsons last year thought it first rate, 
but this year it was poor with him. 
“Mr. Barry said it was a beautiful colored ber¬ 
ry, and one of the highest flavor, but it was a small 
bearer. For amateurs it was an indispensable va¬ 
riety, but it would not do as a market fruit. 
“Mr. C. Downing regarded it as the highest 
flavored strawberry he ever tasted, and one of 
the best varieties. He grew it on a light, sandy 
loam. 
Mr. Hancock had tried it four or five years, but 
it had never succeeded with him.” 
The truth appears to be that this variety is liable 
to be more affected by soil and treatment than many 
other sorts; and the flavor, being very mild, and 
the fruit exceedingly delicate, unless these qualities 
are well developed, the fruit becomes by a single 
step, at once insipid. Besides this, many persons 
greatly prefer a rich acid to a mild delicate fruit, and 
hence under any circumstances, would not admire 
the Black Prince. 
Unfavorable Localities of Fruits. 
S. W. Cole, of the N. E. Farmer, makes the 
following objections to a part of the select list of 
fruits adopted by the American Pomological Con¬ 
gress, so far as they have been tried in parts of 
New England. 
Early Harvest —Slow grower, poor bearer, fruit 
liable to crack and blast. 
American Summer Pearmain —Very liable to blast. 
Early Strawberry— Too small for market—-some¬ 
times affected with blight. 
Fall Pippin —Very liable to blast—-far less pro¬ 
fitable than some others. 
Fameuse— -Does not succeed well in warm loca¬ 
tions-—not of high quality—beauty its greatest ex¬ 
cellence. 
Winesap —Too small for market—better for cider 
and cooking than for the table. 
Lady Apple —Very small, very beautiful, tolera¬ 
bly good, often imperfect. 
Wine Apple of Coxe —Tolerably good, but oth¬ 
ers better for the same season. 
Vandevere —Hardly known in New-England—be¬ 
lieved to be liable to blast and bitter rot. 
Swaar —Fine in New-York, but in N. England 
light and corky at core. 
St. Ghislain Pear. 
The editor of the N. E. Farmer, states that the 
“finest looking ” fruit he ever saw of this variety, 
was grown on a stock of English White thorn, and 
trained on a building. This pear, usually quite 
small, was thus grown large enough to sell well in 
market. It is well known to be a sort greatly af¬ 
fected in size and quality by the^ulture it gets, and 
this mode of doubling its magnitude is doubtless 
worthy of trial. 
Peeling the bark of the Cherry. 
George Jaques, of Worcester, Mass., in a let¬ 
ter dated June 10, 1850, gives the following results 
of experiments on cherry trees. “ Some experiments 
in peeling the outer bark of the cherry have suc¬ 
ceeded with me admirably. The change from 
smooth bark to rough bark, is a crisis in the life of 
a tree seemingly almost as perilous as that through 
which some of the animated creation are compelled 
to pass-—in their change from youth to adult age. 
This disbarking process suits the wants of the cher¬ 
ry, and also of the pear, so far as I have extended 
my experiments; but I am not yet prepared to 
speak positively, till further experiments are matu¬ 
red.” 
