Question - What new varieties of the strawberry have been found to promise well in the experience of this Society?

Dr. Sylvester thought Frost's Fillmore a valuable new sort. He thought the crop a full average of other sorts. Cutter's Seedling be considered a valuable sort also. In Boston it was highly prized. The Austin Seedling too soft for carrying well.

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We are indebted to Mr. Fuller for several baskets of Strawberries, very large and fine, embracing Brooklyn, (a very fine seedling,) Reine Hortense (a new variety of large size and fine flavor,) Vicomtesse Hericart de Thury, Wilson's Albcny, Scarlet Magnate, Brighton Pine, Hooker's Seedling, and some older kinds. We should be doing great violence to our feelings if we failed also to acknowledge from Mrs. Fuller a large and delicious Strawberry Short Cake, for which she will please accept our best thanks. A number of friends happening in at the moment, the cake afforded us an opportunity of getting up an impromptu Strawberry festival. The affair went off finely, with the customary vote of thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Fuller for the bountiful repast. Mr. Hite will also accept our thanks for very fine Wilson's Albany.

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Saml. J. Gustin, Esq., of the Newark Nurseries, writes as follows:

"I had some Strawberries this summer, of the British Queen variety, which for beauty, large size, and fine flavor, excelled anything I have ever seen in the shape of Strawberries. By the annexed slip from the Herald, you will see that they were of enormous size, [ 81/2 inches in circumference.] Mr. THORBURN and a gentleman from Boston who saw them wished me to send a box to the Mass. Horticultural Society; but the largest of them got too ripe before the time. Mr. Long-worth, who you know is rather prejudiced in favor of the Cincinnati Strawberries, saw them after the vines had been picked twice, yet he was so much pleased with it that he took all the rummers and all the fruit he could get, to raise seedlings from. The plants have only had ordinary care. Before planting, the ground was well manured, but not trenched. In the fall the ground between the plants was covered about half an inch or so with old tan bark".

Why is it we so seldom see that beautiful shrub, Clethra alnifolia, in gardens and shrubbery I and it is scarce even with nurserymen. Can it be because it is a native plant Please call the attention of your readers to it. The beautiful spikes of delicate white and fragrant flowers during the month of August, make it a very desirable shrub, and it should be in every collection, however small. Chas. Downing.

We are much obliged to Mr. Downing for calling attention to this beautiful but neglected shrub. While other shrubs of much less merit are propagated and sold by the thousand, this is seldom seen or heard of. Will the nurserymen take it up? Many years ago it was.

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Louis Rits mentions the following as the best of his collection, and also prescribes the soil best suited for their culture:

Fillmore, P

Large to very large; productive ; dark color ; showy; sweet; rich apricot flavor; rich stiff clay.

Boyden's No. 30, H

Large to very large; very healthy plant; productive; sprightly; acidulate; juicy; rich sandy or clay loam.

Chas. Downing, H

Large, productive, juicy, sweet, excellent; rich clay loam, rather compact.

Triumph De Bond And Romeyn's Seedling

I place these two, as similar in every respect, under one heading; the only difference is, that the Romeyn proves a better bearer, under every treatment, than the Triumph. Large, productive, juicy, with a rich, peculiar, aromatic flower; rich clay loam.

Kentucky, H

Very late; productive ; large; acidulate ; not high, but good flavor; clay loam.

Napoleon III., H. Large; productive; slightly acidulate; very aromatic; rich clay loam.

I speak thus far of amateurs who want to plant several varieties. Some of our readers, however may only be able to allow a small space to a strawberry bed, and they may do better with one variety. If their soil is sand with sandy loam, they may plant the Agriculturist or the "Green Prolific," the former being of rather better flavor, the latter more acid, but at the same time more showy and immensely productive. Pistillates should be planted among hermaphrodites, and the proportion should be ten of the latter to one hundred of the former. It is immaterial whether they stand close or ten to forty feet distant, as the wind will carry the pollen. - Louis Ritz.

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A small fruit-grower says, that in order to keep two acres of strawberries in perfect bearing condition, it is necessary that one acre should be planted each year, and one acre ploughed up each year after the third planting.