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can only aoooiuifc for this failure hy a weak¬ 
ened vitality; and if this is the true cause 
may not the failure of tho others be attribu¬ 
table to it also'? 
I noticed this season that tho importoct 
clusters retained the caps of tho blossoms on 
tho unfertilized borrios after tho others had 
commenced to grow. Tho caps had all start¬ 
ed, but the stamens seemed to hick tho power 
to push them off, and 
possibly, being desti¬ 
tute of pollen also, 
fructification failed in 
consequence, and the 
retention of tho caps 
prevented their more 
vigorous neighbors from 
performing this office 
for them, and failure 
followed. 
It is quite possible 
tho above and similar 
varieties are weak in 
this particular respect, 
and the fact that in the 
hands of some cultiva¬ 
tors they produce good 
clusters, would seem to 
indicate that this imper¬ 
fection, whatever its 
cause, can be overcome 
with proper treatment. 
These views, though 
somewhat theoretical, 
seem reasonable to me ; 
and I hope others who 
have given the subject 
longer and more thor¬ 
ough investigation will 
continue the discussion. 
IRKI&ATIOir, 
What Colorado pnoi)le term tho “ Moth- 
od.st system of h-rigatiou is in common 
> sc all over tho country by amateur gai- 
denois and lady florists; but, at tho best, 
the watering of gardens and llowor-bods by 
sprinkling with a watorlng-can is unsatis¬ 
factory and laborious, cspocially where the 
water must bo drawn from wells. To at- 
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COPYRIGHTCD 1884 BY.Wil PARRY 
ELECTRO.BY A.BLANC.PHILA 
THE PAEBT STEAW- 
BEEET. 
No other class of 
Strawberries combines 
probably so many de¬ 
sirable qualities as the 
strain originated by Air. E. W. Durand, and 
best known by Jersey Queen, Prince of 
Berries, and others. To this is now added 
another variety, which, while it possesses all 
the excellent points of its parent, the Jersey 
Queen, has the other great merit of being 
perfect flowered, and therefore not requiring 
a.nother kind for fertilization. 
The PaiTy was raised in 18 8 0 by AIi • ni. 
PaiTy of New Jersey, from seed of the Jersey 
Queen, and the following year it yielded a - 
ready handsome fruit, which was awarded a 
premium at the MoorestownStrawbeiiyl' ah. 
After harvest, the unprecedented heat and 
drought destroyed almost every vaiiety in 
the same plot except this, thus showing i s 
hardiness, vigor, and drought-resisting pou 
The plant is a rank, rigorous gi-ower, wth 
clean foliage and perfect blossoms, ernes, 
obtuse conical, very large, uniform m size 
and shape, bright, glossy crimson, i™> o 
best quality, and ripening evenly. 
originally named “ Junior Queen,” * 1 '., 
suggestion of the Hon. Marshall P- ^ 
it was changed to “ Parry,” under w 
name it is now introduced. Tni-aev 
Mr. Durand, tho originator ® i,o<,vv 
Queen, after growing it on light an 
soils considers it the most valuab e oi 
berrythat has yet appeared before ®_ 
with water at night, allowing it to filter 
through the sides gradually. The pots were • 
covered with pieces of board to prevent 
evaporation. 
An interesting account was given of the 
operations of the Messrs. Smith, market 
gardeners at Green Bay, Wisconsin. Mr. 
J. M. Smith, President of the Wisconsin 
State Horticultural Society, who cultivates 
thirteen acres of 
ground, has provided 
himself with a wind¬ 
mill and tanks, and 
irrigates when neces¬ 
sary. It requires one 
thousand baiTels of 
water to thoroughly 
saturate the thirteen 
acres. His sons, near 
by, use a steam-engine 
to elevate the water. 
Their outfit of engine, 
storage tank, distrib¬ 
uting pipe, and hose 
cost about five hun¬ 
dred dollars, and the 
engine is so much more 
reliable than a wind¬ 
mill, that Air. Smith’s 
son proposes to get 
one also. 
Windmills are now 
thickly dotted over the 
country, and many a 
gardener, by providing 
an elevated storage 
tank and a distributing 
pipe, could put his 
crops beyond the reach 
of drought. For grow¬ 
ing first-class Sti'aw- 
berries. Cauliflowers, 
Celery, and some other 
crops, a supply of 
water is an absolute 
necessity. 
L. B. Pierce. 
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THE PARRY STRAWBERRY. 
tempt to water a large market-garden or j 
beiTy field, even with a horse-sprinkler, ! 
is nearly out of the question; yet thou¬ 
sands of people over that portion of the 
United States where systematic irrigation 
is not generally necessary, feel at times 
the need of water to tide their more valu¬ 
able fruits and vegetables through tem¬ 
porary drought. 
At the last meeting of the AOssissippi 
Valley Hortieultm-al Society in Kansas City, 
this subject was discussed at length, and 
some valuable facts brought to light. I was 
especially interested in what was said in 
reference to what is called sub-irrigation. 
This consists in laying di'ain tiles beneath 
the rows, and conducting the water into 
these, instead of distributing it by surface 
ditches. Several gentlemen agreed that it 
only took one-tenth as much water in sub¬ 
irrigation as it did in surface irrigation. 
Porous two-inch drain tiles are laid six oi 
eight inches beneath the rows of Strawbei- 
ries or vegetables, which are two feet apait. 
Water is let into the pipes needed, and the 
joints being cemented, it gradually works 
out through the pores of the tile and is 
absorbed by the roots of the plants. One 
gentleman stated that he watered his flower¬ 
beds by sinking porous flower-pots among 
his plants, plugging up tho holes and filling 
EEVISED FEUIT NOMENOLATUEE. 
As a beginning to simiilify and condense 
the names of fruits as much as possible, 
according to the suggestions of President 
Marshall P. Wilder, the American Pomo- 
logical Society has in its latest catalogue 
made the following changes in the names of 
small fruits. The revised names will here¬ 
after bo used in The American Garden, 
and it is much to bo desii-ed that they will 
at once bo generally adopted. 
strawberries. 
jVcir A’amc. Old Name. 
Cumberland.Cumberland Triumph. 
Ilovey.Hove.v’s Seedling. 
Miner.Miner’s Great Prolilie. 
Monarch.Monarch of the West. 
Nciman.Nennan’s Prolific. 
Wilder.President Wilder. 
Wilson.Wilson’s Albany. 
RASPBERRIES. 
Fonteu.ay.Belle de Fontenay. 
Kenovett.Kenevott’s Giant. 
Orange.Brinckle’s Orange. 
PaUuau.Belle de Palluau. 
OCRRAKTS. 
Angers.Fertile d’Angers. 
Knight’s Bed.Knight’s Large Bed. 
Palluau.Fertile do Palluau. 
Vei’saillaiso.La Versaillaise. 
GOOSEBERRIES. 
Smith.Smith’s Improved. 
