considerable interval between each main gutter, it turns, and brings the stream back, at a lower point, across the face of the hill again, and somewhat parallel with the first line, but still descending, when it again turns, and so on till it reaches the bottom, when it is applied to the meadows on the flat, if required, and the excess carried away in its proper channel. Across these gutters, at proper intervals, are placed dams, which restrain the current from proceeding till it can surmount the dam, which it is not able to do, till the water attains a sufficient height to compel it to overflow at the lower side of the gutter, throughout its whole length. The water thus streams over in a continuous but gentle sheet all adown the meadow, thoroughly saturating it, and conveying its nourishment and fertilizing power to all the grasses. Where requisite, from obstructions arising from inequality of surface, &c., small gutters are cut transversely from the main gutters, to supply those portions of the field which would otherwise be left partially, or entirely, without. This is continued for a fortnight or three weeks, according to circumstances. When the water is turned off, the grass is allowed to grow till about March, when it is depastured generally with ewes and lambs, which, after feeding luxuriously below, are then driven to lie in the upper or unirrigated part, which their droppings and manure render as fertile as the part which is irrigated-one acre thus irrigated being deemed sufficient to maintain another adjoining unirrigated acre in the best condition. After a sufficient interval, the water is again turned on, and so the process is repeated, according to circumstances-viz, the quantity and quality of the water, the condition of the land, &c., till the season for irrigation expires. From the extreme value of the pasture, and the weight of the hay obtained, it is cal culated that this process, at a very small expense, soon renders the land worth at least double its former rental. From the opposite hill-side Mr. Turner pointed the attention of the company to his own fertile meadow in the bottom, and, a short distance off, to a field similarly situated, in which was growing a scanty crop of mangolds, intermingled with swedes, which had only quite recently come into his possession, and which had been drained in preparation for the same process of irrigation. Two years ago a dog could not walk across that field; but in a very short time he expected to make it equal to his best bottom land, which was formerly in a similar condition. The three acres, properly irrigated, which they saw below them, kept the five acres on which they stood, in the way before described. | another, made by Mr. Turner, as follows): "Remember, gentlemen, that the artificial watering of meadows robs no dunghill; on the contrary, it raises one for the benefit of other lands." Mr. Mechi and other gentlemen made several observations on the use of artificial manures; in reply to which Mr. Turner generally stated that he did not profess to be a scientific chemist, nor any more than a practical man, whose practice he explained to them, and of the results of whose practice their own observation would enable them to judge; and proceeded to urge upon them strongly the advantage of availing themselves, where practicable, of the less costly fertilizing principles of water. The ave rage cost of preparing land for irrigation varied greatly, according to the nature of the land, supply of water, &c., perhaps from £2 to £3 or more, per acre. The subsequent cost of use, &c., was but trifling; not more than 5s. a year per acre. Some difference of opinion was expressed on the part of several visitors, as to the advantage to be gained by denying the land water in the summer, and it was urged by some that the water might with advantage be turned on after mowing. Mr. Turner replied that in 99 eases out of 100 summer watering was found, not only to be of no use, but a positive injury; then (pointing to the water, which having been turned on into the bill side. gutters was diffusing itself over the whole meadow below, making its surface quite plashy) said, he had, in order to give them occular demonstation, turned on the water to the perhaps but slight detriment of the land, but he should be sorry to repeat the experi ment. He then explained that by summer watering the land became exhausted, being pushed beyond its natural strength. Mr. Turner expressed a general opinion that it was unwise to make such an attempt to thwart nature. One effect of summer watering would be to rot the sheep that fed on land thus watered. He remembered that many years ago, when he was but a little boy, his father bought many rams from the celebrated Bakewell, of Dishley. Now, Mr. Bakewell had a great objection to others getting hold of his breed, especially in any irregular way, and at certain periods of the year the butchers would come to buy his sheep, intending really to breed from them." In order to prevent this, a short time previously to the sale, he would irrigate his meadows from an old mill stream, turning on the sheep, and then say to the disappointed butchers, "Gentlemen, you may try to breed from my sheep if you will, but, I warn you, if you do they will have the rot." On its being put to Mr. Turner, whether, in very dry summer weather, it might not be desirable to wa ter artificially, he said his experience was against it. They might force grass, but to the average and permanent injury of the land. In relation to those who were inclined to commence irrigation, he recommended them to have a man who understood the subject, to put their land into proper order. As to the levels, they should be such as to produce a gentle rippling current. To allow the water to stand still would be injurious to the land. In reply to a series of questions and observations, Mr. Turner said that, practically, he had never found the water diffused by irrigation settle and swamp the land; that in relation to grass seeds, he always made a point of getting the very best; that in Devonshire there existed a great variety of soil in | immediate contiguity. He could show them valleys where the land on one side would be worth £2 per acre, while on the other it would hardly be worth more than 2s. an acre. That, according to the rent of the land, he belived no man grew more beef, mut ton, corn, or food than he did. Some persons said, In reply to renewed questions, Mr. Turner said, "Oh, such a man is a good meadow farmer, such a the period of continuous watering, during the irriman is a good tillage farmer, such a man is a good gation season, must depend chiefly on the condition breeder," &c.; but he did not consider any man a of the land, and the goodness of the water. If the good farmer who was not a good meadow, tillage, water were warm and forcing, the period would not be and stock farmer combined. It was the adaptation so long. There could be no specific rule; from one and proper and economical rotation in every depart-week to one month was, perhaps, the two extremes. ment, that made the truly good farmer. (This ob- In conclusion, he must impress upon them all, as the servation gained general concurrence, as did also great value of irrigation, that every acre of land thus watered was equal at least to the maintenance of another acre; and that every thousand acres of land, judiciously irrigated, would give an increased rental of a thousand a year by means of that irrigation. It is estimated that there are half a million of acres irrigated in Devon-which, therefore, represents an increased rental of £500,000 a year, over what the same land would fetch if it had remained without irrigation. me Letters from Prof. Norton-No. 12. Notes of a Tour in Central New-York. New Haven, Conn., Nov. 4, 1850. with Mr. Pardee, the active and intelligent secre- ANALYTICAL LABORATORY, YALE COLLEGE,} MESSRS. EDITORS-It may be remembered, that in my last letter, when mentioning the various improvements made by Mr. Jos. Watson of Clyde, I referred to a specimen of marl from his reclaimed It speaks well for the farmers of this section, swamp, as undergoing analysis in my laboratory; that in this drive of about 40 miles, I did not see a the analysis has since been completed, and has given single field of corn that was topped; it was all cut a high idea of the value of the marls in that close to the ground, and was uncommonly heavy. section, of which I suppose this to be a fair sample. Mr. Pardee, who has extended opportunities for It contains a remarkably large per centage of car-forming a correct judgment, thinks that the average bonate of lime, and also traces of potash, sulphuric yield of wheat per acre in this part of the country, and phosphoric acids. These last, although in small has rather increased; though very great numbers quantity, add most materially to its value, and confarm on an exhausting system, they have learned to firm me in the opinion, that these marls are one day sow deeper, and thus to root the young wheat well so destined to be of immense importance in the agricul. that it is not so liable to winter-kill. This improveture of this region. If the present race of farmers ment will not be a lasting one, if the farmers persist find no use for them, or for the swamps under which in their exhausting system, and will in that case they lie, they may rest assured that those who come soon cease to produce any such marked effects as it did at first. after them, will not always labor under the same delusion. The exhibition of stock, implements, fruits, &c. at Clyde, was very creditable, and when the hour for the address came, I was greatly surprised, it being a very rainy day, to find the church quite filled by an audience that proved remarkably attentive, and that seemed disposed to consider the subject of the address-a special agricultural education, as one which deserved their most serious consideration. In coming up from the head of Sodus Bay, with Mr. Watson, he directed my attention to the line of the proposed Sodus canal. The excavation has been in a great degree completed, by the ingenious method of damming a stream which runs through a natural hollow in a straight line to the head of the bay, and then allowing the accumulated water to sweep down, bearing of course a large quantity of material torn from the banks with it. By a repeti. tion of this process, a large channel has been swept out, so that little remains but to build locks, and shape the banks. This canal will drain quite an extended tract of heavily timbered swamp, which, when dry, will make farms of the very richest description. Near Clyde, we called for a few moments on Mr. Mackay, whose nursery and selection of fruit is well worthy of a longer visit than the closing day permitted us to make; he has a considerable assortment of the rarer fruits, shrubs, and flowers, and all in a highly thriving condition. From Clyde I went to Palmyra, on the canal, taking the packet by way of variety, in these days of railways and steamboats. I found it even slower than I had expected, and was quite content to stop at Palmyra, after a voyage of about 24 miles. This beautiful village reminded me more in its appearance of Massachusetts or Connecticut, than any place that I saw in New-York. In company This county is remarkable for fine fruit, and for the extent to which it is cultivated. In an address delivered to the county society a year since, by Mr. Pardee, he brought forward facts to prove that Wayne county exceeded all others east of it on the line of canal taken together, in the amount of fruit shipped for market, both in a dried and fresh state. I saw many orchards that bore evidence of care and skill in their management, and some of them were very remarkable. There was one large orchard that we visited, some ten or twelve miles from Palmyra, the proprietor of which was absent. His name I have unfortunately forgotten, and I regret this the more, as it was in the most healthy and flourishing state, of any large orchard that I ever entered. The trees were all young, just coming into bearing; the varieties being Russets, Greenings, Baldwins, and a few other standard kinds. I picked the largest Russett from one of the trees, that I ever The trunks of all these trees had evidently been washed with a weak lye, or some preparation for cleaning the bark, as it was in a wonderfully smooth, silvery, thrifty state; presenting such a sight as, I will venture to say, can scarcely be surpassed in any country. saw. In the town of Walworth, we visited the farm and nursery of Mr. Theron G. Yoemans, and found it well worthy of attention. It is an instance of what enterprise and sagacity, may do with this land. We saw there peaches, plums, pears, apples, and cherries, all from 3 to 5 years old only, but wonderfully large for their age, and bearing most luxuriant crops of superb fruit, unsurpassed in size and quality. Mr. Yeomans commenced with but about 18 acres, on a small scale, as in my opinion every beginner should, and has gradually increased as he has improved, until he now cultivates about 50 acres. The original 15 acres, were first dressed with about 70 loads per acre of muck, and leached ashes, in equal parts. The latter came from an old ashery, where they had lain neglected for years. This accomplished, the next step was to drain the whole tract; it lay on a hill side, and was generally considered dry. There was however in reality, a number of springs which made the ground wet and springy in the early part of the season, and in winter, so that the roots of the young trees were liable to be thrown out and lifted. His draining has been done with tiles of the horse shoe and pipe varieties, mostly of the latter, laid at a depth of three feet. They are made at Waterloo, Seneca county, by the machine imported two or three years since by Mr. Delafield. The 30 or 40 acres which have been added to the original 15, are now under process of drainage. They had heretofore been thought dry, but the drains laid have already run full of water several times, and an improvement in the land is already beginning to show itself most decidedly. Mr. Yoemans has laid 14,000 tiles this season, and is still going on. Protection to Wool-Growers. EDITORS CULTIVATOR-My article in the Septem. ber number of the Cultivator on the subject of Foreign and Domestic wool, was written amid the pressure of other business, in great haste, from a mass of facts on the subject, which in private correspondence and official documents had been accumulating on my hands, during the many years I have been connected with the wool question; and here, permit me to say, a question, whether we regard the immense amount of the investment or the numbers interested, unsurpassed in importance by any single subject that can be presented to the consideration of Congress in the adjustment of a tariff. Whether such an event is to happen immediately or at a distant day, it is a bad policy, to wait till the horse is stolen before you lock your barn, as was the case in 1842. tariff, made them subject to widely different rates of duty, which ridiculous ignorance, any unlettered farmer could have enlightened. In that article, (which an able writer in your November number over the assumed name of Titrius a wool grower, has been pleased to notice with great The principal object in the cultivation of this courtesy,) I endeavored to embody a mass of facts farm is fruit, and carried on in the way that I of a practical and useful tariff on wool. which I deemed vitally essential to a fair adjustment How newitnessed, on such a soil, and under the influence cessary a knowledge of the most simple facts is, to of such a climate, it can scarcely fail of success. While Mr. Yoemans has thus commenced a liberal the majority of politicians and professional men. and enlightened system of management, he has not fact, that Congress in '42 regarded flax-seed and lin. who compose Congress, is aptly illustrated by the neglected matters of general utility, and the neigh-seed as two distinct articles, and accordingly in the borhood bears ample testimony to his public spirit. Among other things, he has offered a premium of about 50 cts. for each shade tree that may be planted along the road side within the village limits, and shown to be healthy and thriving at the expiration of three years. In consequence of this offer, some 900 trees have already been set out, and will be well cared for during the next two or three years of course; they will then have obtained such a start, as to grow without farther care. It will be an inestimable benefit to the village of Walworth, and one which its inhabitants some thirty or forty years hence, will fully appreciate. Mr. Yoemans will I trust, excuse me for having spoken so much at length of his proceedings, but I think that such examples as his, are just those that practical farmers ought to become acquainted with. The fields in this part of the county look older, and more carefully cared for, than the generality of those in the Eastern section. The country has been long settled in comparison with the east end, and consequently has a less rugged and newly settled appearance. Many of the fields however, seem to be much worn out by a defective system of cropping, and nearly all show need of the various remedies which Mr. Yoemans has so abundantly applied to his land. The cultivation here is as I have said con wool question and confessed obligation to me, seizes Titrius, notwithstanding his great interest in the upon a purely incidental remark on the subject of with the grower, the mutton being the main object) Scotish Black faced wool, (which is a mere incident and ascribes to me the advocacy of a sentiment conficting with the whole tenor of my article which I criminating duties on wool according to the different never have and do not advocate, to wit, that of disfabricks, into which it may be manufactured. This would be impracticable, if not impossible, as the wool of the same fleece, is often made into fabricks of very different value with wool of an entirely differ. ent character. Had Titrius written over his own name or addressed me a private letter, as many wool growers have done, I have no doubt with his kind feelings, the fervor of his gratitude and deep personal interest in the subject, we might have arrived at a mutual good understanding, without his giving battle to a man of straw, or my appearing again in print. into which wool may be manufactured further than As I have nothing to do with the duties on fabricks their manufacture creates a demand for wool, I will siderably neater, and the roads cleaner, than in the cent in the duty on the fabrick to which he alludes, now simply say, that Titrius is mistaken five per other end of the county; the houses are also generally and notice more particularly his last paragraph, in larger, and more substantial. These are however relation to the struggle in the passage of the tariff simply the advantages of an older country, and in 1842, on the wool clause. With this struggle I was my opinion they will have to work hard in order to maintain their superiority, as their rivals are pushed observer. The samples of wool used in both not an entire stranger or a careless and uninteresting on rapidly in this friendly strife. Yours truly, houses of Congress and before the committees, to illustrate the subject were furnished by me, in rela. tion to which Ex-Gov. Slade, then in Congress, in his letter to me says, "they were used to good ad. vantage" before the committee of ways and means, who were induced to report an amendment to their bill before the committee of the whole in the house, of five per cent duty on coarse wool costing less than behalf of the wool grower in both houses were seven cents per lb. &c." Also the facts quoted in credited to the paper I then had the pleasure to edit. This paragraph appears to me to originate in a JOHN P. NORTON. KIRTLAND'S NEW CHERRIES.-Dr. Kirtland states that out of the new cherries which he has originated, there are some thirty or forty which will range as high as the American Heart. None are as early as the purple Guigne. The Doctor, one of the earliest, he states, comes in with the early White Heart. We have found it a trifle earlier. misapprehension of the nature of the struggle in '42, and calculated to prepare the way for further injustice to the wool grower; in short, to be just such as a defeated advocate of the now exploded maximum principle, would pen in the last resort, to secure the next best object to the advocates of free trade in wool-to wit: a low, indiscriminate duty on wool, so high, as nearly to exclude the coarse hairy wools which we do not grow, yet so low, as to admit the whole mass of rival wools, at a cost here which will enable them to control the price of domestic wool in the home market; too low for the purposes of revenue, incidental or direct protection, and far below what the farmers of the country have a right to demand in return for the payment of 16-20ths of the millions raised by the tariff to support the government. It is not to be winked out of sight that, 82-100ths of the whole population of the United States are agriculturists, and that no class consume more dutiable articles, according to their numbers and the amount of their individual business, than they. They are the principal consumers of all the protected products of our manufacturers, yet no class on account of the great superabundance of the products of our agriculture, receive so litte encouragement or aid from the tariff. Then let Congress do all it can for them in a tariff in this vital matter of wool, and go even beyond the revenue standard, (even the most scrupulous for justice's sake, need not hesitate,) they will still labor at the shortest end of the yoke and receive a mere pittance from the general government compared to the aggregate amount of their contributions to its support. Titrius says it was the attempt to discriminate between the different kinds of wool to be applied to different objects, which produced the greatest mischief to the wool grower in 1842. and the proviso, would be inoperative in the construction of the act, and the sheep husbandry in the United States would progress from bad to worse, under the proposed tariff, all of which has been too sadly realized. Thus the whole struggle in 1842, was for substantial free trade on the one side, and just and equal protection on the other. The free trade in wool prevailed, losing no ground in the struggle save the trifling amendment of the Ways and Means. Well, the tariff of 1842 went into operation. From the ingenius phraseology of the bill, the word COARSE proves to be all a humbug, and without meaning 29-30ths of all the wool imported, came in subject to five per cent. duty-about one-eighth as much as the duty on woollens. The importations rose up by 1844 to nearly 25,000,000 pounds, and in 1845, to rising 28,000,000 pounds. -over Now I would ask what there is in all this that has even the semblance of a discrimination between different kinds of wool to be applied to different objects? Does the issue on the maximum, for its rejection, reduction, or the substitution of an ad valorem duty as high on wool as woollens, establish the fact? No such thing. The whole issue was free trade or not. Certainly the maximum could make no such discrimination, when all the South American wool could be purchased abroad from one to four cents per pound less than the maximum of seven cents. It is true, that the friends of the wool-grower in Congress, with a faith founded in darkness,thought if they could reduce the maximum, they could subject more rival wools to the higher rate of duty established in the bill, but they soon found that they were completely over-reached, and that there was no fact in commerce better established, than that the coarse, hairy wools of Crimea, Odessa, Calcutta, &c., cost the same abroad as the fine and beautiful wools of South America, east of the Andes. That I made a discrimination between rival wools which supplant our own, and the coarse hair wools, which do not, is true, in order to show that the max. imum cannot be applied to either, as a rule of discrimination between coarse and fine wools, and also, that unless such a discrimination as this is made in a tariff, it will be found to be impracticable, as it regards both the revenue and incidental or direct protection. Now, I say there was no such attempt or issue in the passage of the tariff of 1842, as Titrius believes, and those who believe it do not and did not understand the This fact was established beyond contradiction, game the advocates of free trade in wool were play in my last; having then reliable information that a ing, under the guise of the maximum principle, adopt-project for a new tariff had been made at Newport, ed in the tariff of 1832-which admitted all wool R. I., by certain eminent politicians, about twelve costing abroad eight cents or less per pound, duty months previous, designed to be substituted for the free. So little was then known on the subject out present tariff, at the first convenient opportunity, of the circle of importers and manufacturers, that it by which free trade in wool was again to be estabwas not even imagined in Congress or out of it, that lished under the guise of the maximum principle; I this tariff would virtually establish free trade in set forth this fact distinctly and beyond doubt, so wool, but when I established the fact in 1841, that that all could see that a maximum could have no fourteen and a half millions out of a little rising fif- office in a tariff on wool, save its old office of humteen million pounds of wool, were imported duty free, bug, deception and ruin. supplanting every grade of domestic wool in our own markets, the wool-growers were alarmed, the agriculture press came to the rescue, a few members of Congress caught the glimmer of the new light, a struggle arose between those who wanted free trade in wool and the wool-growers. The whole issue was made up on the maximum, which drew no line of discrimination between the kinds of wool and the fabrics into which it might be manufactured, but between free trade and protection. So great was the influence of adverse interests, and so small the information on the subject in Congress, that all the bills, when presented to Congress, adopted a maximum, high enough to establish virtually, free trade in wool. However, the Committee of Ways and Means, at the last moment, imbibed a little light, and were induced to report an amendment to their bill, subjecting coarse wool coming under their max. mum to five per cent. duty. The word COARSE, which was not in the tariff of 1832, with the provisos in the bill, it was contended by the advocates of free trade in wool, would be an abundant security to the wool-growers, while they contended the word coarse Titrius, would not subject fine and coarse woollens to the same rate of duty-say $2 per yard. This would exclude the coarse fabrics, costing $1.50 and under per yard, (the article most wanted,) and be no restriction on the importation of broad-cloth worth $5 or $10 per yard, and would defeat the purposes of revenue. This is precisely the case with the present indiscriminate ad valorem of 30 per cent. on all wool. If it is a fact, I believe it does not admit of a doubt, that the coarse hairy Crimea and the Buenos Ayres cost abroad the same, (though the Buenos Ayres will produce three times as much as the Crimea,) then both pay the same amount of duty per pound, which is as absurd as to subject a $10 and $2 broad-cloth to the same amount of duty per yard. soap diluted with water, tying them up for winter, removing the eggs of insects, &c. "About 100 trees set last spring have made an average growth of about 15 inches each. A part were mulched with oat straw, a part with coarse straw manure, and another portion were mulched at all. The result was most conclusive in favor of the ¦ mulching.” The Best Strawberries. The experiments which have been made in all parts of the country are greatly assisting in the determination of the best sorts for general cultiva tion. The results of different cultivators under the various external circumstances of soil, locality, &c. must always be interesting. Now, I would ask Titrius, as a wool-grower, what rate of duty he would put on the rival wools of Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Cordova, &c., rivaling ev. ery grade of wool grown in the United States, and coming to the cards from 12 to 20 cents per pound cheaper than our domestic wool, and costing about six cents per pound? Why, he would answer me as did a distinguished wool-grower and member of the present Congress-why, sir, 100 per cent. would not be equal in its effects, to the duty on woollens. Now apply this rate of duty, or any just rate of du- | ty on fine or rival wools, to the coarse hairy wools, and you exclude their importation at once, and destroy a demand for our long worsted wools manufactured with them in about equal proportions. You defeat all revenue from this class of wools, and dis- LEWIS F. ALLEN, of Black Rock, N. Y. remarks courage the introduction of the large long-wooled in the Horticulturist, "In the plantations of an acre mutton sheep, very desirable in our more populous or two which I am about making [founded on preStates, where mutton as well as wool is an object vious trial] my chief stock will be the Large Early with the farmer. Now, on the other hand, if you | Scarlet, Burr's New Pine and Rival Hudson, with adopt a low, indiscriminate ad valorem duty, so low a few Hovey's Seedlings." The Large Early Scarlet, as to raise revenue from the importation of these he says, is "the best berry for a crop, probably, coarse hairy wools, you will flood the country with taken altogether, that we have." Twelve square all kinds of wools and ruin the majority of the sheep rods, with ordinary care and some drawbacks, gave farmers in the United States. This would not be 260 quarts. Hovey's Seedling, 66 coarse in flavor, true, did the price of wools abroad generally import-a tolerable bearer,' not fit for a crop." Boston Pine, ed, correspond to their quality, value and fineness, a good fruit, but stem too short. Burr's New Pine, as imported articles generally do. "splendid, early, prolific, highest flavor." Rival Hudson, "the most prolific-the most beautiful growing berry, on a high stem-fine rich flavor." Black Prince, "color bad-flavor insipid, or sour." Hence, in my humble judgment, we are reduced to the necessity of either a general ad valorem duty on all wools, on their home valuation, or two rates of ad valorem duties corresponding to the qualities of the wool and the degree to which they compete with and rival our domestic wools in our own market, or else wool-growing in the United States will continue to be, what wool-growers know it has been, a bad business. I am, with great consideration and respect, your obedient servant, H. C. MERIAM. North Tewksbury, Nov. 7th, 1850. The Horticultural Department. CONDUCTED BY J. J. THOMAS. Successful Treatment of Young Trees. We gave, last spring, some account of the suc cessful management of newly transplanted fruit trees, furnished by JONATHAN TALCOTT, of Rome, N. Y. Not one tree in a hundred was lost, and the growth of many of the shoots on the apple trees the first season, was 15 inches to 2 feet. This success was mainly owing to large holes filled with fertile soil; careful transplanting; shortening the shoots at the time on the tops of the trees; and clean, enriching, and mellow cultivation, and mulching. He has recently furnished the following additional remarks on the treatment of his young orchards: was "Last spring the ground was plowed and planted to hoed crops, the manure about the trees spaded in, and they have been hoed twice. The results have been most promising for a beginner, and encouraging to those in this vicinity who are setting out fruit trees. I find they have grown from one to more than three feet the present season, forming fine heads. When I came to the conclusion to set out an orchard, I made up my mind that I would take care of my trees, and have endeavored to do so to the best of my knowledge. Thus far the result of the experiment has been satisfactory. "I have just been scrubbing the trunks with soft H. E. HOOKER, an extensive and skilful cultivator at Rochester, says, "The best to my palate, are Burr's New Pine, Large Early Scarlet and Hudson; and for a late berry, Crimson Cone; but tastes differ." Boston Pine is pronounced very productive, but inferior in flavor.* Black Prince, the same. Hovey's Seedling, large, beautiful, of second quality. Burr's New Pine, large, beautiful, fine, productive. Large Early Scarlet, very productive, one of the best, good for marketing. Hudson, good flavor, firm, excellent for market. Crimson Cone, beautiful, fine flavored, late, very vigorous." At an examination of 37 sorts made at the grounds of L. C. EATON, of Providence, R. I. by a number of gentlemen, the following were selected as the best, viz: Hovey's Seedling, General Jaqueminot, and Hudson Bay. The New York Hudson Bay, Jenny's Seedling, Burr's New Pine, Rival Hudson, the Cincinnati Hudson, and the Hudson Bay of Rhode Island, were pronounced distinct, the fatter being decidedly the best. The General Jaqueminot vigorous, productive-fruit stalk high and strong. was regarded as unrivalled,-large, firm, hardy, DR. KIRTLAND, of Cleveland, Ohio, states that Hovey's Seedling, Willey, Burr's old Seedling, and a variety of Hautbois, can be so managed as to give an abundant succession of fruit for five or six weeks. He remarks, "Experience has satisfied us that four-fifths of the varieties which have been introduced to public notice, are in no wise superior to a few old favorites, and many are entirely worthless in this vicinity." G. W. HUNTSMAN, well known as a successful strawberry culturist of Flushing, L. I., places Burr's New Pine at the head of the list, as being "decidedly the most desirable strawberry in cultivation." He ranks Hovey's Seedling next; then strawberries, preferred, this year, the Boston Pine for its excelling *How tastes differ-a person, accustomed to eating the best flavor, even alongside Burr's New Pine and Swainstone. |