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THE CULTIVATOR 
Sept, 
lurtirnltnrnl fifjiurtrarnt. 
Notes on Strawberries. 
R. G. Pardee, of Palmyra, N. Y., is one of the most 
indefatigable collectors of varieties and enthusiastic cul¬ 
tivators of the strawberry in this country. He has given 
a thorough trial to some forty or fifty sorts. As he has 
made very accurate observations on season, size, quality, 
and productiveness, a few brief notes, the substance of 
which he has furnished us, together with personal obser¬ 
vations on his garden, will doubtless be received with in¬ 
terest. 
Burr’s New Pine —the earliest by three or four days 
of nearly 50 varieties, and the best flavored of all. As 
a proof of their continued productiveness, successive 
pickings of heavy crops at each time, were made on the fol¬ 
lowing days,—June 1st, 12th, 18th,2Gth,and July 1st. Be¬ 
sides this, they were picked exery day for the table, and 
a few occasionally as late as July 18th. It bears well in 
sun and shade; in hills, rows, and masses; and full as 
long, but not quite so late, as Jenny’s Seedling and some 
others. The size of the largest specimens were full up 
to inches in circumference 
Monroe Scarlet —(one of Ellwanger &, Barry’s Seed¬ 
lings,) bore the largest quantity of large size fruit on the 
trial-bed. Five foot-stalks from one plant, produced 80 
really large sized berries. Many other plants of this sort , 
in other parts of the garden, bore similarly, and contin¬ 
ued long. The size was from 2^ to 4| inches in circum¬ 
ference. 
Hovey’s bore well in masses and in hills—one specimen 
measured full six inches in circumference, and a large 
number four to five. 
Willey bore abundantly in hills and rows—a medium 
size, hard, pleasant fruit. 
Moyamensing Pine , is, July 18, bearing finely, of real¬ 
ly large, fine fruit. 
Walker’s Seedling and McAvoy’s Superior , also con¬ 
tinue to bear well. 
Crimson Cone pleases me very much—bore a large 
supply of beautiful, acid fruit. 
Jenny’s Seedling has done well. 
Lizzie Randolph is of the largest average size, but 
quite deficient in flavor. 
R. G. Pardee adds, “ I have before me a small stem 
of the ‘ Large White Province’ currant, of which the 
fruit of three currants measure each full 9-16 of an inch 
in diameter, and more than 1| in circumference.” It 
appears to be about the size of the cherry currant. 
Charles Downing, of Newburgh, remarks, “ Our 
strawberry crop has been fine—nothing in flavor exceeds 
Black Prince in my soil.” 
Profits of Raspberry Culture. 
A correspondent at Newburgh, N. Y., writes, “In 
consequence of severe winter, we have no cherries but a 
few Dukes and Morellos—we shall have no peaches, and 
very few pears—curculios have taken all the plums. Our 
Raspberries are now ripe, and sivejine —the Large Red 
Antwerp is much the best for market purposes ; 
one person 12 miles north of us sends daily to New-York 
market from six hundred to a thousand pint baskets, for 
which he receives fifteen cents each, wholesale.” That 
is, $90 to £150 per day. 
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New and Old Fruits for Western New-York. 
No list of fruits was probably ever made by any one 
cultivator, that entirely suited another. The differences 
in palates, purposes, treatment, soil, and seasons, are such 
as produce, necessarily, some variation in the estimate 
of the different sorts. But as every one increases his 
knowledge of fruits, and of the experiments of others, 
he is enabled to decide more understandingly for himself 
--and to avoid being led by the nose, as was a certain 
uninformed neighbor, who changed the top of his pear 
trees three times before bearing, as each successive sort 
came into fashion, and was recommended aud then dis¬ 
carded by his novelty-seeking friends. 
The following list of the most valuable among the 
newer sorts, condensed from the last report of the Fruit 
Committee of the Genesee Valley Horticultural Society, 
is, in most cases the result of much experience, and may 
be of essential benefit in assisting inexperienced cultiva¬ 
tors in making a selection. In a very few instances the 
committee differed in their estimates, but this was usual¬ 
ly in the case of quite new fruits, in relation to which 
there had been but very limited trial. The kind or spe¬ 
cies, are given in the order of their season, beginning with 
Strawberries. — Burr’s New Pine, Large Early 
Scarlet, Boston Pine, Hovey’s Seedling, Hudson, or Ri¬ 
val Hudson, and Crimson Cone. Ellwanger & Barry’s 
Genesee, was recommended as eminently worthy of trial. 
Currants. — Cherry, remarkable for size, being the 
largest red. 
Victoria, remarkable for its long bunches and late ri¬ 
pening. 
Raspberries. — Large Fruited Monthly —has pro¬ 
duced a fine crop in autumn. Needs protection, and the 
careful removal of suckers. 
Cherries. — Early Purple Guigne —the best early 
sort. 
Reine Hortense —beautiful and excellent. 
Governor Wood—\Q ry early, large, pale red, delicious. 
Doctor— good, valuable for its earliness. 
The following are noticed,— Belle d’Orleans, beautiful, 
but not high flavored; Monstreuse de Mezel, about the 
size of Napoleon, dark mahogany color, very firm; and 
Rockport Bigarreau. “ simply a good cherry, not equal 
to some of the old sorts.” This latter opinion of the 
chairman was dissented from by some others of the com¬ 
mittee, who esteemed the fruit more Highly. 
Peaches/ —Crawford’s Early —continues a universal 
favorite—which has led to an overstocked market of fruit 
at its period of ripening; Crawford’s Late,— promises to 
be an important late variety; Druid Hill, —has proved a 
fine, white-fleshed peach, and merits extensive trial. 
Peche de Vigne, fruited the past season for the first time, 
proves of high flavor, ripens late, and for three years has 
been entirely free from the curl. 
Plums.- — Jefferson, Lawrence, and Reine Claude de 
Bavay, are specially recommended for excellence, the 
latter also for its lateness, hanging long on the tree and 
improving by shrivelling. 
