The King Of Strawberries

A strawberry grower, of Worcester, Mass., compares the Wilson strawberry to the Bartlett among pears and the Concord among grapes, Nicanor too soft, Downer's Prolific for a near market, Charles Downing, the Kentucky valuable for its lateness, and Jucunda, for its fine appearance and excellent marketing qualities. Seth Boyden, Col. Cheney and President Wilder, promise highly.

Kingsessing Pear

Leech's Kingsessing is a synonyme of this fruit; origin in the grounds of Isaac Leech, near Philadelphia. Fruit large; obtuse-pyriform, or truncate conic; skin greenish yellow, thickly sprinkled with minute green or gray dots; stalk medium or long, curved, and fleshy at its insertion in a broad, uneven cavity; calyx closed, set in a shallow, irregular basin; flesh whitish , somewhat coarse and granular, juicy, buttery and melting, with a sweet, rich, perfumed flavor; ripe in September. - Charles Downing.

Kingsessing Pear.

Mr. Hovey: Pass it and leave it on the list as promising well. Mr. Walker: One of the best trees in the nursery - fruit fine, no cracking. Keeps well; mellow, and does not rot for one month. Mr. Wilder: This pear is fine and does not crack. Added to list for general culture.

Kirtland

Mr. Townsend, N. Y.: Moves to advance this pear for general culture. Dr. Brinckl6: Second quality in Delaware. Mr. Hooker: Beautiful, but rots at core. Messrs. Barry and Hovey agree with Mr. Hooker. Looks well, but not of large size. Mr. Walker: Is of same opinion. Dr. Brinckle': One of the best pears in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Kirtland Beurre

This is a delicious pear, and had Prof. Kirtland bestowed no other boon upon a fruit-loving people, his name, for this alone, deserves immortality. Its excellent size, honeyed seckel flavor, beautiful appearance, perfect specimens, free from speck or crack, fair bearing, vigorous growth, splendid foliage, good constitution and withal an elegant tree, give it high rank with me. I have fruited this variety for ten years, and never had a bad pear.

* This article was written for insertion at an earlier date, but was crowded out; it is valuable, and now appropriate to the season. - Ed.

Kirtland Pear

We have been favored by Lewis F. Allen, of Black Rock, with specimens of this fine Pear, grown on his own grounds. They were about half the size of those we had formerly seen from Dr. Kirtland, doubtless in consequence of the drouth. They were found, however, to maintain fully their excellent flavor, and were quite equal in quality to the best specimens of the Gray Doyenne, with rather more of the peculiar Beckel perfume. These are the first, so far as we know, that have fruited in this state. - Country Gentleman.