1852 
THE CULTIVATOR 
277 
IrotMtral Utepnttinrat. 
Strawberries at Rochester. 
The exhibition of the Genesee Valley Horticultural 
Society, the early part of the present summer, furnished 
much of an interesting character to the strawberry cul- 
turist. As a proof of the zeal which actuates some cul¬ 
tivators in testing new sorts, it need only be stated that 
R. G. Pardee, of Palmyra, presented about forty varie¬ 
ties, as a part of his collection in bearing. Several cul¬ 
tivators exhibited a dozen sorts or more each, most of 
them possessing high excellence. Ellwanger & Barry 
offered for examination, besides many others, seven of 
their new seedling varieties.* Some of these for size and 
productiveness stand high, and for those who prefer a 
mild flavor, which characterizes most of their seedlings, 
will be highly esteemed. Bissel & Hooker presented 
three new seedlings, which evidently possess much 
merit, and are well worthy of further trial. One was 
staminate and two pistillate. For the best sort, every 
one appeared to be decidedly in favor of Burr’s New 
Pine , the two first premiums being awarded to this sort. 
Some of the committee declared they were satisfied they 
had at last found the worst flavored strawberry in exis¬ 
tence,—the Lizzy Randolph,! a large showy sort from 
Flushing. These two they felt assured would constitute 
the head and the tail of any list that could be made out, 
but the precise intermediate places for other varieties, 
they could not exactly agree in assigning. They how¬ 
ever agreed to recommend the following as worthy of 
cultivation:— 
Besides Burr’s New Pine, placed at the head of the 
list as the best and most valuable, was Large Early 
Scarlet, a valuable early sort, and the best staminate 
for fertilizing others; Scarlet Melting, remarkable for 
its productiveness and easy growth, but not of high 
flavor—and from its extreme softness, only fit for home 
use; Rival Hudson, the best late sort, excellent for 
preserving, and from its productiveness, valuable for 
market; Crimson Cone and Hovey’s Seedling, whose 
characters are well known. These the fruit committee 
were inclined to regard as the best six varieties, taking 
all points into consideration, for the vicinity of Roches¬ 
ter. 
Among other sorts exhibited, the Cushing was noticed 
as being a large and very showy sort, but not high fla¬ 
vored. One of the fruit committee, who disliked a high 
acid flavor, regarded it as a valuable fruit. It is, how¬ 
ever, not a good bearer. Buist’s Prize, although large 
and showy, was found to be of very moderate quality. 
Iowa and Cornucopia were poor. Among new sorts 
which appeared to possess fine flavor, were McAvoy’s 
Superior, Ellwanger Sc Barry’s Unique Scarlet, and 
Prince’s Charlotte. British Queen was of good quality, 
but it is remarkable that this sort, which in England ex¬ 
ceeds in size and productiveness any thing we can raise 
here, should be so comparatively small and quite un¬ 
productive here. Boston Pine would have been recom- 
* The Monroe Scarlet has excited much notice on some grounds 
this year—is a good and large berry, and an enormous bearer. 
t Justice requires us to say of this fruit, however, that it is of the 
largest size, exceedingly showy, and a very great bearer. 
mended as one of the six best sorts, had not several cul¬ 
tivators lost many of their plants of this sort, during 
last winter. Prince’s Profuse Scarlet is a good berry, 
but not enough better than the Large Early Scarlet to 
entitle it to distinction, while, being a pistillate, it re¬ 
quires a fertilizer. Very fine specimens of Jenny’s 
Seedling were exhibited, and this variety promises to be 
a fine and rather a productive sort. 
It was observed as a singular circumstance, that near¬ 
ly all the specimens of Hovey’s Seedling, for different 
localities widely apart, were distinctly and conspicuous¬ 
ly coxcombed—a very unusual thing for that variety in 
other seasons. 
Select June Roses. 
“ Will you name a few of the best June roses, taking 
into view both form and color?” A. Triomphe d’ Abbe¬ 
ville, a fine deep red, very double, with a small green 
center; Bonne Genevieve, a beautiful clear rose, less 
double, but of handsome form; La Tourterelle, a pale 
purple or dove color, with delicately imbricated petals 
Roi de Prusse and London Pride, light purple, of fine 
form, and very double, the latter the most so; General 
Thiers, very dark velvet purple, remarkable for the de- 
licacy of its petals; Victor Tracy , of only moderate 
pretensions as to form, but a remarkably large richly co¬ 
lored rose, and an uncommonly vigorous grower; George 
the Fourth, very large, dark rich velvet, its only fault 
being its loose form; and among white roses, Madame 
d’Arblay, Blanche Fleur, Hybrid Blanche and Madame 
Plantier —Madame Hardy is a very fine white rose, but 
too tender for the north. The old Crimson B our salt or 
Maheka, and the Boursalt Elegans, (very often spuri¬ 
ous,) are fine for pillars, as are also thePrarie roses, the 
Baltimore Belle, Queen of the Prairies, Perpetual Pink, 
&,c. We should not forget in this list, the old Blush 
Moss, which in some points has never been equalled by 
any of the new mosses, and Princess Adelaide, perhaps 
the finest grower of all the moss roses, and very fine in 
other respects. 
National Garden. 
The Jardin des Plantes, or national garden at Paris, 
costs annually, according to the foreign letters of P. 
Barry, about $100,000 for its entire support. It contains 
in a growing state, arranged and labelled, all the best 
new and old kitchen vegetables, where market gardeners 
may come and learn their qualities; a great collection 
of medicinal plants; a complete assemblage of the 
grasses ; an arboretum (of ornamental trees;) a beauti¬ 
fully cultivated fruit garden; a full green-house and 
hot-house department; a menagerie of everything from 
all parts of the world, from elephants to monkies; wild 
and domestic birds; the richest anatomical collection in 
Europe, comprises over 15,000 preparations; 60,000 
specimens of minerals, and fifty thousand species of 
dried plants; a natural history library of some thirty 
thousand volumes; besides which there are experiments 
in all departments of horticulture constantly in pro¬ 
gress, and gratuitous lectures delivered by the most 
1 eminent scientific men. Now the question natural- 
