The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . ch is left for that purpose ;and train afterwards straight as a line up under the rafters, and the greatwork is completed. The matting with wliich the graft has been tied inshould be slackened by degrees as the young shoot grows: it should notbe taken off that season, but kept pretty firmly to its position, or the flowing ^2 Willard Potato. sap of the vine will raise up the bud from its proper position on the stock,forming the same warty excrescence as though grafted by the other methodspreviously referred to. We would here remark,
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . ch is left for that purpose ;and train afterwards straight as a line up under the rafters, and the greatwork is completed. The matting with wliich the graft has been tied inshould be slackened by degrees as the young shoot grows: it should notbe taken off that season, but kept pretty firmly to its position, or the flowing ^2 Willard Potato. sap of the vine will raise up the bud from its proper position on the stock,forming the same warty excrescence as though grafted by the other methodspreviously referred to. We would here remark, in the case of out-doorvines, it is best, if it be possible, to leave a few green leaves to draw upsap above the grafts. jfohn Ellis. White Plains, WILLARD POTATO. A SEEDLING from Early Goodrich, raised by Mr. C. W. Gleason of Mas-sachusetts in 1863. In form and size it very closely resembles its parent,while it is equal if not superior to it in productiveness. In color it is ofa fine rose-red, covered with numerous dottings of a dull white, with occa-. sional splashings of a yellowish-white. The flesh is white. In earlinessit matures just after Early Goodrich, and ranks as medium-early. Grown side by side with the Early Goodrich this season, I find it to beequally free from rot. I think tlie vines are rather larger than those ofEarly Goodrich. In quality, equal to that variety. I give the above as the result of one seasons experience with the Wil-lard, with a crop of about forty bushels. James y. II. Gregory. Marbi-ehead, Mass. Growing Strawbcny-Pla7its in Pots. 7Z GROWING STRAWBERRY-PLANTS IN POTS. The practice of using small pots in which to root new and valuablevarieties of strawberries, so as to secure certainty of success in their trans-portation long distances, and that in the growing-season, is not entirelynew, and is generally understood by the more intelligent growers ; thoughbut few, I apprehend, fully realize the value of this method, by whichplants may be sen
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