Hovey Seedling.

_Hudson Bay._--A hardy and late variety, highly esteemed.

_Pyramidal Chilian._--Hermaphrodite, highly valued.

_Crimson Cone._--An old variety, quite early, and something of a
favorite in Eastern markets.

_Peabody's New Hautbois._--Originated in Columbus, Georgia, by Charles
A. Peabody. Said to bear more degrees of heat and cold than any other
variety. Very vigorous, fruit of the largest size, very many of the
berries measuring seven inches in circumference. Flesh firm, sweet, and
of a delicious pine-apple flavor. Rich, deep crimson. It may be seen in
full size in the patent office report on agriculture for 1856. If this
new fruit sustains its recommendations, it will prove the best of all
strawberries.

Downing describes over one hundred varieties. We repeat our
recommendation to select the best you can find near home. The following
rules will insure success:

1. Make the ground very rich.

2. Put fertilizers within five feet of each other, and never allow
different kinds to run together.

3. Cover the ground two inches deep with tan-bark, sawdust, or fine
straw, just before the blossoms open; tan-bark is best.

4. Never allow the vines to become very thick, but thin them out.

5. Water every day from the appearance of the blossoms until done
gathering the fruit; this increases the crop largely, and, at the South,
has continued the vines in bearing until November. Daily watering will
prolong the bearing season greatly in all climates, and greatly increase
the crop.

6. Protect in winter by a slight covering of forest-leaves, coarse
straw, or cornstalks.

7. To get a late crop, keep the vines covered deep with straw. You can
retard their maturity two weeks, and daily watering will prolong it for
weeks.

8. Apply, twice in the fall and once in the spring, a solution of
potash, one pound in two pails of water, or two pounds in a barrel of
water in which stable-manure has been soaked.

9. The best general applications to the soil, in preparing the bed, are
lime, charcoal, and wood-ashes--one part of lime to two of ashes and
three of charcoal. The application of wood-ashes will render less
dissolved potash necessary.

These nine rules, strictly observed, will render every cultivator
successful in all climates and localities.

SUGAR.

There have, until recently, been but two general sources of our supply
of sugar--the sugar-cane of the South, and the sugar-maple of the North.
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