. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. omises to bethe most permanently profitable of all Californiafruits. The orange has hitherto been given thehighest position. The Sharpless Strawberry. — There havebeen some complaints this year that the Sharplessdid not get red right up to its point, as it usuallydoes—but the plants continue remarkably far as we have heard no spot has yet appearedon its leaves and it will probably not be necessaryto introduce the most wonderful berry in theworld to replace it for some time yet. Approved Strawberries for Ohio.—Mr. a noted fruit
. The Gardener's monthly and horticulturist. omises to bethe most permanently profitable of all Californiafruits. The orange has hitherto been given thehighest position. The Sharpless Strawberry. — There havebeen some complaints this year that the Sharplessdid not get red right up to its point, as it usuallydoes—but the plants continue remarkably far as we have heard no spot has yet appearedon its leaves and it will probably not be necessaryto introduce the most wonderful berry in theworld to replace it for some time yet. Approved Strawberries for Ohio.—Mr. a noted fruit grower of Cuyahoga Falls,reports for the past season that Jessie, Itasca,Summitt, Ohio (pistillate), Bubach, Jewell, Ontario(too near Sharpless), Belmont, Covel (better thanCrescent), Lida and Henderson as varietiesamong the newer ones, have good points re-commending them to cultivators. The Gold Strawberry.—Of the same par-entage as Jewell, and about the same size. Itsflavor is said to be very superior, and the sizeequal to The Gold Strawberry. The annexed illustration shows how the formdiffers from its sister berry, the Jewell. The largenumber of small seeds together with the globularform, will be good characters for identification. AND HORTICULTURIST. 271 The Belmont Strawberry.—The Massachu-setts Horticultural Society thinks very highly ofthe behavior of this strawberry this season. It isan excellent amateur berry, as the fruit does notripen all in a few days, and then all is over. The Golden Queen Raspberry.—A few yearsago we had an excellent accession to the goldenclass of raspberries in the Caroline. Now wehave another in the Golden Queen, sent out byEzra Stokes, of Camden, N. J., who found it grow-ing in a garden of Cuthberts. We have not seenthe berry, but it is represented to be equal to thefamous Brinkles Orange in quality. Spinage.—Many people complain that they donot do well with spinage. It should be remem-bered that it is a cool-coun
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