Some distant readers of the Horticulturist have desired me to send to the Editor a sketch of my observations and experience with the strawberry the current season. This I will cheerfully do, if I am permitted to add, that I do not wish them to be considered as conclusive in any case, but rather as only suggestive to others. I am not aware that I have any partialities or prejudices for any particular kinds, and I am quite sure I have never received a dime for strawberries from any one. I cultivate them for my own satisfaction, to which I may add the luxury of giving my family and kind neighbors more acceptable fruit than money will often purchase, and assisting them in determining the best varieties for us to cultivate.

This season has been with us an exceedingly favorable one for the strawberry. The constant succession of plentiful showers has been so grateful to this thirsty plant, that it has returned to us larger and more abundant fruit than usual.

Hovey's Seedling has never borne so satisfactorily on my grounds as during the present season, and the fruit has been so large that we have gathered quarts at a time measuring from four to five inches, and the flavor has been good. While I can say thus much in favor of this standard variety, I am also happy to say that in productiveness and flavor Burr's New Pins has decidedly and largely surpassed it, and is only slightly inferior to it in the average size, for we have also gathered quarts of the New Pine measuring from three and three-fourths to four and three-eights inches just below the stem. I allowed my New Pine and a portion of the Hovey's, side by side, to strike their runners and cover the ground, and it is worthy of remark that I was unable to find a single plant of the New Pine, even of those runners which struck as late last fall as November, which has not borne liberally this season, and I have carefully examined hundreds with reference to this point; no other variety has as yet done this on my grounds.

The Lord Spencer (?) has not this season my expectations, either in respect to size or productiveness, and yet its flavor as a table berry, when fully ripe, is almost unequalled; but in many respects this season, it has more resembled the Early Scarlet than my other varieties.

The Black Prince has borne largely with me, and a large portion of the fruit has been very large, say three and three-fourths to four and a half inches, and is a very showy fruit, but no previous season have we noticed it so deficient in high flavor. The plants which had extraordinary cultivation, and were of such remarkable size, were among those the most deficient in flavor.

The Alice Maud has also borne well, and the fruit has been unusually large, but this also has failed to be of high flavor.

Jenny's Seedling has not quite met our expectations this season in productiveness, but the fruit has been very large and good, and may redeem its character with us another season.

The Roseberry is of fine flavor, and has borne well, though of medium size. I am quite pleased with Ellwanger & Barry's new seedlings, the Genesee, Monroe, and Climax Scarlet. The plants are very vigorous, and promise a large Supply of fine flavored fruit. We shall give them a good chance for another season. Nearly or quite the same may be said of Richardson's Early, Late, and Cambridge, togther with the Boston Pirn, Crimson Cone, Royal Scarlet, and perhaps Swainstone Seedling and a number of others.

From their good conduct the present season, I shall watch with more than usual interest, the development of some ten or a dozen of Prince's choicest new varieties from Flushing, which I am testing for another season with care, for our soil and climate.

I have had more of the New Pine than any other variety in bearing in my garden, and the greater portion of my plants were transplanted on the 15th of July, 1850, and the ground leveled and mulched immediately, with an inch or so of saw-dust and old tan-bark, since which I have not had occasion to bestow any labor upon them, beyond an occasional watering when very dry, and the pulling of a very few weeds, and the result has been we have gathered between three and four bushels of fine fruit in a succession of more than four weeks daily abundant supply, from a spot of ground fifteen by forty-five feet, and at the full cost of less than seventy-five cents per bushel. The New Pine was among the first and last in the season of bearing.

Unless I find other new varieties which I can take pleasure in giving a trial, I do not expect, after next July, to find it desirable to retain more than a selection of some half dozen kinds, out of the thirty-six now in my garden.

A lady from New-Orleans, brought to this place some three or four years ago, two kinds of French strawberries, which I will refer to. One is called the French Cucumber Strawberry, from its long and singular appearance, somewhat resembling the French Hautboy in foliage and appearance, but probably will not be desirable to cultivate only as a curiosity. The other is called the Prince of Orleans - in color and appearance resembling the Roseberry; not larger and not equal to that in flavor, but appears on a short trial to be a very large bearer, but rather tender for a market fruit.

We have also some seedlings of Burr's New Pine, fertilised with our best varieties, coming forward.

The large success of our citizens generally, in raising the strawberry the past season