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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Sept. 
tion, where climate will admit. The bushes occupy 
very little space in a garden, and come into bearing 
beautifully a year or two after transplanting. 
All of the most northern portions of the United 
States seem well adapted to the gooseberry. Many of 
the large English sorts are very liable to mildew here; 
those of medium size usually do better. One of the 
best means to prevent mildew, is good mellow culti¬ 
vation on a deep rich soil, accompanied with good 
pruning every autumn. A correspondent of the Horti¬ 
culturist, in New Jersey, ascribes his uniformly good 
success, and their freedom from mildew,to atop-dress¬ 
ing of three inches of salt hay. This, though doubt¬ 
less very beneficial, would not probably succeed with¬ 
out the best cultivation besides. With a selection of 
such varieties as by trial, have been found to be free 
from it, and the preceding precautions, little trouble 
from this source need be feared. 
Many hundred varieties have been produced by the 
English cultivators, but so nearly alike in size and fla¬ 
vor are many of them, that half a dozen well selected 
sorts, would embrace essentially all that would in ordi¬ 
nary cases be required. We have placed at the head 
of this article accurate outlines of two esteemed varie¬ 
ties, grown on bushes with ordinary culture, with 
moderate pruning, and with the fruit not at all thinned 
on the branches. Indeed, so productive are these and 
some other sorts, that fruit, of the size represented, 
often lines the lower sides of the branches, so thickly 
as to be in actual contact for several inches together. 
The figures given above are precisely of the natural 
size and shape, being accurately traced by their 
shadows. T. 
SELECT VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES. 
Preliminary to a full exposition of the relative 
merits of the different varieties of the strawberry, I 
will now, as some guidance to those who are desirous 
of forming plantations, name such varieties as the full 
experience of years has proved should be summarily 
rejected, and also some that may be pre-eminently 
adopted for their certainty of crops. The great im¬ 
provements made in the character of this fruit, have 
now rendered it necessary that many o,f the older va¬ 
rieties, which have been hitherto held in esteem for 
want of better, and which, although in most cases pos¬ 
sessing good flavor, are miserably unproductive, should 
give place to those which produce abundant crops, and 
possess other estimable properties. 
As a general rule, the English varieties, which have 
been from time to time so much vaunted, are not at 
all comparable to the new American varieties, or even 
to those found in a natural state in our woods and 
prairies; and with but few exceptions they are des¬ 
tined to be banished from our gardens; and will, no 
doubt, be displaced, even in England, by the superior 
varieties which will be sent from America. I have 
affixed an S. to the staminate, and P. to the pistillate 
varieties. Wm. R. Prince. 
Soil .—The soil should be stiff and not sandy, and 
should be dug and pulverized to the depth of 18 inches; 
it cannot be made too rich, and old rotten manure 
should be plentifully intermixed throughout the whole 
depth. 
REJECTED VARIETIES, 
All of which are staminate, with more or less fertile 
pistils. 
British Queen, worthless for barrenness. 
Black Musk Hautbois, 
do. 
New Black Musk “ 
do. 
Corse’s Seedling, 
do. 
Downton, 
do. 
Elton, 
do. 
Myatt’s Eliza, worthless for barrenness. 
Pine, 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
Old Pine, 
Royal Scarlet, 
Southborough, 
Deptford Pine, foliage burns up in summer. 
Roseberry or Aberdeen, small, poor crop. 
Keene’s Seedling, ) . . , ir 
Ross’ Phoenix S medium size, and half crop. 
Garnestone Scarlet, fine flavor, poor crop. 
Duke of Kent’s Scarlet, prolific, insignificant, useless. 
Bishop’s Orange, the dark red variety so called is 
erroneous; the true is Orange Scarlet, very productive 
and valuable. 
Common English Hautbois. 
Faulkner’s Scarlet Pine. 
Nairn’s Scarlet. 
TWENTY ESTIMABLE VARIETIES. 
Large Early Scarlet, S., prolific. 
Alice Maude, S.,very large, fair crop, early. 
Primordian, P., amazingly productive, large, beau¬ 
tiful bright scarlet, the most valuable early variety. 
Abysinian Prince, P., large, very dark, productive. 
Black Prince, P., “ “ “ 
Bishop’s Seedling, P., medium, orange scarlet, very 
productive. 
Boston Pine, S., large, fair crop in rich soils. 
Buist’s Prize, S., very large, showy, fair crop. 
Crimson Cone, P., exceedingly productive, large, 
beautiful color. 
Crimson Pine, S. &, P., large, fine flavor, very pro¬ 
ductive. 
Eberlin, P., large, productive 
Hovey’s Seedling, P., very large, very productive. 
Hudson, S. & P., large, very productive. 
Iowa, S., orange scarlet, large, productive. 
Lizzie Randolph, P., same size, and more produc¬ 
tive than Hovey’s Seedling. 
Nebked Pine, P., scarlet, large, remarkably produc¬ 
tive, peculiar form. 
Primate, S., very large, deep scarlet, splendid, very 
productive. 
Prince Albert, S., very large, beautiful, fair crop, 
requires rich soil. 
Taylor’s Seedling, P., long oval, scarlet, veryproduc- 
tive. 
Unique, S., large, very oblong, light scarlet, excel¬ 
lent, productive. 
Mr. Burr’s five Ohi6 varieties, have fruited with me, 
and promise well; three of them are pistillate va¬ 
rieties. 
SELECT LISTS OF APPLES. 
Different cultivators, having equal acquaintance 
with different varieties, will not agree in selection; 
there are a few sorts, however, which' all will agree in 
pronouncing fine. Such sorts, may, therefore, be more 
confidently recommended to the novice, than those about 
wffiich good cultivators will differ. A man wffio knows 
well a hundred different kinds, of reputation, by select¬ 
ing a very few, will hardly fail to get such only as are 
truly valuable. 
B. V. French, one of the most eminent cultivators 
of the apple in New England, gave the following as 
the six best apples, for early, medium, and late or win¬ 
ter ripening:— 
Early Harvest, Rhode Island Greening, 
Porter, White Seeknofarther, 
Fameuse, Baldwin. 
Another eminent New England cultivator, gave for 
the three best apples, summer, autumn, and winter, 
the following:-— 
Williams’ Red, Porter, Baldwin. 
