Since a brief article I sent to the Horticulturist for December appeared, I have received numerous letters of interest and inquiry, on the nature and culture of the strawberry, from amateurs, both in this state and New-England; and it has occured to me that some of our unsettled queries on the subject, might be appropriately referred to the public through your columns.

First. What varieties of the strawberry are uniformly reliable in our variations of soil and climate? An important inquiry, truly. Are there any kinds which will prove as reliable as the Rhode Island Greening, or Early Harvest Apple, or White Doyenne Pear, or Crawford's Early Peach, for New-York? That some kinds are vastly more certain of a crop than others, any observer will admit. Among our finest berries, can we not say that Burr's New Pine is as reliable for a crop in all places in our state, as the Rhode Island Greening. But what others have been so generally and widely tested, and proved satisfactory.. Some will say the Large Early Scarlet, but our friends from Geneva assure me that my remarks with regard to this variety hold true there; they say "the amount of fruit is small and very transient." I have a hope that Black Prince will prove reliable everywhere, but it perhaps, has not yet been sufficiently tested. Hovey's is very fickle in many places. Many other kinds should be tested everywhere, and so tested that their failure shall not be caused by neglect.

Second. Is the flavor of strawberries materially changed by different locations and soils? The testimony of men of taste in different places, seems to indicate this. If not so, why does Mr. Downing pronounce the Black Prince of the highest flavor, while our friends in Rochester pronounce it insipid, or poor flavor.It is quite certain that both parties know well what constitutes superior flavor in the strawberry. It appears quite probable, therefore, that the Black Prince has degenerated from Mr. Downing's garden, or it has been unfavorably affected by soil or climate at the west. In Palmyra we do not call Black Prince, Hovey's, etc, poor flavor, still we cannot compare them with the delicious flavor of Burr's New Pine, Swainstone Seedling, etc.

Is it after all necessary, in order to productiveness, to mingle staminate with pistillate plants? It would neither be modest or sensible in me to express a negative to this ques* If our correspondent will examine the discussion on Strawberries in the Report of the Pomologicnl Congress at New-York, last year, he will find that this strawberry is fickle in flavor It is always very fine here, and we think generally in stiff soils, but is quite insipid in many light soils. Ed tion, when such distinguished cultivators as Downing and Long worth, Thomas and Barry, have stated it otherwise; and yet, after all, some appearances in the recent conduct of Hovey's Seedling puzzles me. If I am not mistaken, Thompson of London and Hogg of New-York, incline to a contrary opinion. It is quite certain that the strawberry is a very fickle plant, and how much allowance must be made for this habit, I cannot determine. I have taken an interest in the strawberry for twelve or fifteen years past, and have often observed Hovey's refuse to bear when surrounded by staminates, while on the other hand, I have certainly, several times, seen them with astonishing crops of fruit, when I could detect no staminates in their vicinity, and was assured by the cultivators there was none.

However, all this may be explained by other causes, and the settled theory remain; and yet I am anxious to see still farther and more careful experiments. I have often seen a new bed of strawberries bear largely the first year of fruiting, and obstinately refuse to bear ever afterwards, and vice versa. Sometimes I could account for such sterility by a dry season, but at other times I could find no such apology for the barrenness. "I think it desirable to choose runners from healthy, productive plants," says one of our most distinguished amateur florists. "I have not allowed a single or semi-double aster to seed in my garden in twenty-five years; as soon as one of that character blossoms, I pull it up." Acting on this plan with the strawberry, I am convinced our best kinds will uniformly yield large crops. At an expense of only one dollar in preparing the bed and keeping it clean, I have supplied my family with one to two quarts per day for more than three weeks, of this most delicious fruit. I have, in my travels, accumulated some twenty-three kinds in my garden, (besides those I have discarded,) with which I am experimenting, and I am to add some six or eight kinds more in the spring, for the same purpose.

I cannot convey to your readers how much I am interested and entertained "to see this numerous family of beauties come out for the first time, as the court language is," for in the language of a venerable amateur in the strawberry field, whose enthusiastic devotion to it makes him, as you see, quite young again, elegantly says, "The plant is, itself, one of the most beautiful in Nature, beautiful in its foliage - beautiful in its blossom, and, above all, in its fruit. Every variety shows us some new form of beauty." There is a charm in strawberry culture, a delightful uncertainty about the product, until the first season arrives; and to the lover of Nature it opens a wide, and not wholly occupied field, for the study of vegetable physiology. R. G. Pardee.

Palmyra, N. Y., Dec. 1850.