The Manchester Strawberry

New Eng. Farmer. Through the kinduess of Messrs. ] Hale of South Glastonbury, Conn., we received a year ago a few planta of the : New Manchester Strawberry for trial, '. together with three other varities, Sharpless, Hart's Seedling and Windsor Ohief. Tliey are all good planta and started wel!, but a portion were destroyed by the whito grub, which is making auch sad havec among the strawberry beds in some portions of New England. Tho Manchester esetped ■with very few losse and have gi ven us chief ftupply of fruit this season. It was tbe earliest to bloom of any variety we happened lo have, and a3 it is purely ;v pistilate the early blogsoins were quite impertectly fertilized.causing irrogular and imperfectshaped fruit, out the later bloom was wellsupplied with pollen from the adjoiniug rows of perfect ñowers, and the fruit has been wonderf ully abundant, while the quality is highly satisf actory, much better according to our taste, than most varieties erowu. IL it does as well in future as"it has done this season, and succeeds as well on a variety of soils as it has on our dry loam, it must become one of the leading varieties tor general cultivation. But it must have stammato plants growing near, ana they should be of an early variety. Probably the Wilson would be aa good as auy for the purpose". The Sharpless has not borne a very full erop with us this year, neither has the Hart's Seedling.' But the Windsor Chief, which much resembles the old Champion, has produced well, aud ia a flne acid berry. It will not rto to pronounce decidedly upon any new thing from one year's trial, but the Manchester certainly bids fair to become a favorite.