The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Rural Affairs Volume 19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...of this pear, in the same Catalogue for 1852. We sti'l perceive a number of errors among the names of pears, but as we are afraid of abusing the patienco of your readers, we shall leave the remainder for our new Catalogue, in press at this time, and which will appear in the approaching July. We have, in this Catalogue, given the name and author of oach variety, and all their synonymes, in order to escape deception and make known to amateurs all the names under which each variety is sold. Wc would remark that we consider the Beurre Sterkmann as being the same as the Doyenne Sterkmann. Angers, France, April, 1853. Art. IV. Pomological Gossip. The Ohio Seedling Strawberries.--Ever since the four varieties of strawberries were introduced to cultivation by the recommendation of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society our amateurs have had a great desire to see the fruit. A. strawberry to take the one hundred dollar prize ought to be a good one, and consequently McAvoy's Superior, raised by Mr. Longworth's gardener, with three others called McAvoy's No. 1, Schneike's Pistillate and Longworth's Prolific, have been an especial object of interest. How well they have fruited with other cultivators we are not aware, but with us they have had good attention and have shown their true merits. To say that they have fulfilled our expectations will not probably be expected; but we readily admit they have, for we never believed they would come up to the standard of cultivators in our vicinity. The truth is, from some reason, our Cincinnati friends do not appear to have a correct standard to judge by; either the eastern varieties do not succeed in the city of Cincinnati, or they have not yet discovered the method of growing them, or else they have not the...