Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society (187 - new book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: winter here, and the Sir Charles Napier and British Queen, which are also very large, but ripen imperfectly, like the Agriculturist. A staminate variety is perhaps better for general cultivation than a pistillate. In 1836 he set out twelve plants of Ilovey's Seedling in an old asparagus bed, in one row twelve feet long, and one foot apart, where it was a little shady. They grew luxuriantly and filled a space twelve feet by three, and he gathered from the bed twelve quarts, besides a great many which were eaten from the bed, and given away. This was at the rate of from 12,000 to 20,000 quarts per acre, but it would be as fallacious to conclude from this limited experiment, that an equal crop could be grown by the acre, as it would because the crop of a single Beurre Diel pear tree had sold for seventy-five dollars to reckon on a whole orchard at the same rate. Strawberries cannot be cultivated to advantage in a hap-hazard way, as with the Jersey cultivators, who get but from fifty to seventy-five bushels per acre. We hope that something may yet be produced better than any we now possess, and Mr. Hovey was glad to see the Cambridge cultivators again in the field. Mr. Wilder said that he was glad that Mr. Hovey had alluded to the dropping of seed in the bed. It was undoubtedly in this way that the Hovey's Perfect, advertised as a Ilovey's Seedling with perfect flowers, was produced. In raising seedlings he had found Hovey's Seedling as good a mother as could be used. Mr. Rand spoke of the beauty of Fragaria Iitdica for greenhouse cultivation, and especially as a basket plant, bearing lively yellow flowers and brilliant red fruit, which, however, is not eatable, on its hanging runners of more than a foot in length. President Parkman added that this species has attracted much ...