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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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point, for he bears the following testimony in favor of 
this new variety:—•“ Since it commenced bearing, the 
new Hermaphrodite has produced a full crop of perfect 
fruit. This season, on the same border with Hovey’s 
Seedlings, and other varieties of extra large size, it bore 
the largest crop, and the average size of the fruit was 
larger than any other. If it shall continue to produce 
blossoms perfect in both organs, it will be the most valu¬ 
able strawberry known.” 
(5.) Apples. — Rawle’s Janet and Newtown Pippin 
were presented, “ Sound and perfect.” “ In keeping 
and eating qualities,these two varieties may be considered 
rivals; and in productive qualities, the Janet carries the 
palm, as it seldom fails to produce a good crop.” The 
Swaar was exhibited “ sound and in good condition; 
Jonathan , sound and handsome.” The committee did 
not speak highly of the Kingsley of Rochester, although 
regarded as a good keeper. 
(6.) Cherries. —The Early Purple Guigne and the 
Rockport Bigarreau are highly commended, the latter as 
“ a magnificent cherry of great beauty.” 
Horticulture not Forgotten. 
The Lenawee county (Mich.) Agricultural and Hor¬ 
ticultural Society; have shown by the list of premiums 
they have offered, a liberality and spirit of encourage¬ 
ment towards the culture of fruit and flowers, worthy 
of imitation by other county societies, and altogether 
ahead of even the New-York State Soc. afewyears ago. 
They offer $18 in premiums for apples; $9 for pears; 
$9 for peaches; $9 for cherries; $9 for plums; $8 for 
apricots; $8 for quinces; $9 for grapes; $4 for strawber¬ 
ries ; $4 for gooseberries; $4 for raspberries, and $2 for 
currants; that is, $83 in all for fruits. For Roses, they 
propose $18; for other plants and flowers, $27. In ad¬ 
dition to these, the Society offer $30 for discretionary 
premiums on Fruits and Flowers; $12, besides discre¬ 
tionary premiums, for vegetables; $12 for the best nur¬ 
series; and $6 for the best gardens; making, in all, for 
the encouragement of Horticulture, 188 dollars. 
They also offer a premium for the best ten ornamen¬ 
tal forest trees planted last spring by the roadside; and 
a premium for the best and greatest number of orna¬ 
mental trees in or adjoining a road, saved from the de¬ 
stroyer’s axe. 
If all our county societies should imitate this example, 
the revolution wrought throughout the country, in rural 
comfort and prosperity, would in ten years be visible to 
the most careless observer. 
Qualities of new Strawberries. 
At the exhibition of fruits during the present season 
in the Hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
thee ommittee made the following decisions, relative to 
the quality and character of several new varieties of the 
strawberry:— 
Ohio Mammoth , good, but not of first quality. 
Scarlet Melting , of medium quality. 
Burr's Seedling, do. 
Columbus, do. 
Scioto, very acid. 
Late Prolific , acid. 
Burr's New Pine, high flavored, very fine, of first-rate 
excellence. 
Crimson Cone, acid, lacks flavor. 
Charlotte, medium quality not much flavor. 
Black Prince, below a medium quality. 
Rival Hudson, high flavored, but very acid, of me¬ 
dium quality. 
Unique Scarlet, of medium quality. 
Montevideo Pine, fair. 
Cornucopia, good, rather acid, well flavored. 
Primate , indifferent. 
Boston Pine, good. 
Richardson’s Late, very good. 
Willey’s Seedling, acid, indifferent. 
Fay's Seedling, indifferent. 
Early Virginia, good.. 
Aberdeen Beehive, very acid and indifferent. 
Walker’s Seedling, dark colored, good size, abundant 
bearer, of high flavor, very fine quality—staminate—* 
worthy, the Committee think, of an extended cultivation. 
Hardy Pears. 
James Mathews, of Coshocton, Ohio, writes, “My 
fruits were all killed here this spring by late frosts, ex¬ 
cept a few Dix and Louise Bonne de Jersey pears, 
which seem to be hardier than any other pears I have. 
But for this disaster, I should have had about one hun¬ 
dred varieties of pears alone, in bearing, in my garden, 
principally new kinds.” 
Remedy for Plant Lice. 
[The following was received too late to test its effica¬ 
cy this season, all aphides in this reigion having disap¬ 
peared. Of the remedies, yet tried, whale-oil soap has 
been found most effective, and common strong soap-suds 
nearly its equal, and both greatly superior to tobacco 
water, unless the latter is made very strong, or stronger 
than a common decoction in hot-water.] 
If you have any species of the aphis in your nursery, 
please make a trial of the following decoction:—Get from 
a druggist -§ lb. of Quassia, boil it 15 minutes in six 
quarts of water; pour off the decoction into a dish pan 
with handles. When cool get an assistant to hold the 
pan while you carefully bend down and immerse the 
branches—giving them a little motion to wet all the in¬ 
sects. Look at your trees two days after; and if the 
aphides are dead, and the tender shoots uninjured, use 
and recommend the quassia and let the whale-oil soap 
perform some other office. 
For young and tender buds or grafts, I use the spray 
from a nearly spent syringe where it is not safe to bend 
them over the pan. Most resp’et. yours, E. G. Mygatt, 
M. D. Richmond , McHenry county, III., July 23, 1851. 
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Protection against the Curculio. —It has fre¬ 
quently been remarked that fowls were more or less a 
protection against the curculio. A striking example of 
this has been shown the present season in the grounds of 
fm. H. Southwick, New-Baltimore, N. Y. He has 
many very handsome plum trees, of good size, healthy, 
and vigorous. Several of these trees of different kinds, 
are enclosed in yards where fowls are kept—separate en¬ 
closures being necessary for the different breeds which 
are here bred. The trees in the fowl-yards are loaded 
with plums, while on the trees not so enclosed, almost 
all the fruit has been lost by the sting of the curculio. 
