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Piwas told, then fall of its magnificent blooms, and that Mr. Cant was 
ready in’ any year to show 100 blooms of it against all comers.» Hear 
you that Miss Isabella Gray, and blush if you can blush? 
On’ the whole, I thoroughly enjoyed my visit; and that is saying 
something when Roses’ were the ons, and when one had had such a 
feast of'them at the Crystal Palace; and I felt sure that Mr. Cant was 
ohe of those cultivators who is rapidly bringing the Rose into such wide- 
spread favour. . May all such flourish ! 
Deal, Aug. 21. D. 

STRAW BERRIES. 
Wirm seventy sorts of Strawberries, I naturally expected to be able to 
say something grand, but ‘“‘man appoints, and God disappoints.” Such 
a winter, spring, and summer, I never remember to have occurred, 
From October till the 27th of June there was either frost, hoar. frost, 
wind, rain, snow, or hail sleets, and even now (the 8th of August) the 
weather is cold, wet, and Octobral. This. being so,:and. as sun is the 
contract of the word sugar, little can be said of high flavour. | I shall, 
therefore, speak of Strawberries in reference: to those qualities which 
the weather has permitted them to present:to me.» Thoze that did not, 
under ‘such disastrous circumstances, come: up tomy expectations: I 
shail’ reserve for future trial and description. 
The best foreign Strawberries.are the’ Hautbois Belle Bordelaise 
and ‘La’ Reine (Belgian) ; they are both hardy, good, sure croppers, 
and of excellent flavour. I think that another year I shall be able to 
speak favourably of Latour Maubourg and Excellente, good winterers and 
good croppers. Of the new English Strawberries, Oscar and Wonderful 
are the best. © Oscar is a beautiful first-class plant with foliage like the 
Bicton Pine; its: berry is perfectly solid, and the plant is hardy. . I 
have increased it. The weather was most unfavourable for tasting it, 
but I think that it will give great satisfaction. Wonderful is a fine 
strong plant, heavy cropper, and of geod flavour ; its berries are conical, 
and like, but’ larger, than La Reine: and) Sir W. Scott... Wizard is a 
pretty plant, like in foliage to Sir W. Scott, but stronger; the foliage 
is correctly represented in the portrait ; its fruit is medium sized, round, 
and’ numerous. The weather hindered ‘me from detecting its true 
flavour. Princess Frederick William is a strong plant; its fruit is large 
and early: May Queen is hardy, and a great cropper. \ She was three 
weeks earlier than any other. She came im:in incessant wet weather, 
and I cannot tell what her flavour is. She is valuable as first early. 
A seedling sent’ to me by Mr. Nicholson, marked W. but not named, 
will’do him great credit. The plant is: vigorous, and the flavour fine. 
Mr. Ingram and I will give it a ‘‘testamur.” The Scarlet. Pine is 
decidedly of first quality and: flavour; it is like the Rival Queen; the 
plant is more vigorous. The red and white bush Alpines are worth 
their weight in gold; they crop well all the year... The old white 
_ Alpine is’ also very valuable. I. use it. for rockwork, according to the 
suggestion of the lateoMr.: George: McKwen, whose little’, treatise 
