New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-05
burt on trial, and now none but imported ones are

cinnati' The season has not yet begun but under
stand that in the course Of week or two hundreds
and hundreds Of bushels will be brought in IN Day
Last seaton one would have three hundred ousn'
els in the market at time. Mr.. Longworth Is Inc
father Of the strawberry culture well as OF the vine
culture He has given 10 the world the fruits OF re-
markable discovery in the shape OF three ne" seed
lipgs--tbe Superior the Prolific and the Extra ked,
oo,b of which has an excellence of it, This dis
coyery was the property OF an ignorant market
woman. who first in Philadelphia and next in Cincin-
mt heat all her neighbors in the abundance es well
a, the fueness Of her crop. Every Spring she would
carefully 90 over her beds pull mp numbers Of the
largest blossom ing plants and throw them the
fence The rival gardeners, enulOus of her success,
carefully picked up these rejected plants and set them
out in their gardens But not yet had they caught the
goose that laid the golden eggs. Her castaways did
no better than the old ones, if well, and still she
raised five times many berries a. any else.
On coming to Cincinnati she still distsnced all com
petitors-why no one could discover. At length her
son carelessly dropped hint in the hearing of Mr..
LoDgworh who caught it up and experimental, until
he found out the curious fact that the strawberry is
sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes
hermaprOGi;e having both organs more or less com
plete-a fact, the udieious whereof has brought
the price of strawberries from 40 to 30 cents down to
10 ; cents per quart and made them staple Of the
State II was the male strawberries, whose blossoms
are always the largest, that the markewOman threw
over the fence keeping just gentlemen enough in her
beds for the ladies. Too many not only take up too
much Ioom but their energies are not exhausted in
bearing fruit grow and spread fast as seriously TO
encroach upon their harems that if not looked to in
time they are likely, Mr.. L0ngworb says "tO kick
all tie women out of bed Hence il il that many peo
pie find to their great surprise, that they have fewer
and fewer strawberes though the blossoms are larger
AID larger every Spring On the other hand the
female can do nothing without intercourse with the
other sex of course Harveys seeding, 80 long the
favOrite strawberry of the East is pure female, and
bears only when it has companions in the bed, "a it
almost to have fewer The English
strawberries are said to be always hermaphrodte-
which renders it very difficult for John Bull to believe
that there pure males and females Not the least
curious thing about this matter is the way in which the
male impregnates the female. lie does it by proxy,
honeybees and other insects playing the go-beween.
They carry the dust on their feet they fly from
flower to flower. This fact has been established, be-
lieve beyond cav by series of experiments, such
covering some of the female plants with gauze when
they are sure to be barren but begin to do their duty
FORE no need to put the male plants in the same bed
with the female, aud in practice each is now usually
placed by itself from foot to yard apart from its
conugal compenions Of the three varieties just
mentioned as Mr. Langworth's seedlings, now in gene
RAJ cultivation here, the Superior and Extra Red are
female, and the Prolific is hemaphrodte.
am glad that NEWCOMERS are going to make the
acquaintance of Mr.. Longworh in the thirymerchant
picture TO be painted for Mr. - OF NewJersey,
by our Mr. Rossiter who is here taking sketch.
Pity that his wife cannot be put into the painting also
Active wide awake, humorous and original, an old
man Ct as he IT, she is at II his complete counter
part Straight as an arrow stately and severe, with
quick walk, such modern ladies of IL might envy
and an animation and earnesness Of feeling in her con-
yersGtion, such many of them cannot even appre-
cate she is the type of the women of the Revolution
and would have done, see, anything that the
best of them did. 4 cheerful old couple on the eve
Of their golden wedding day, they live at the east end
of the city among their children and grandchildren
occupying with their houses and spacious gardens the
whole side of squire, and feeding hsl TIE poHr of the
city, Mr.. Longworth and his wife ar such persons
that one naturally speaks of them with the freedom
allowed in tie IF kings, princes, cuthors Nc, in
their lifetime.
Mr. L0ucworth j., withal, the best Of patrons and
apprecators Of ant in the country. His walls are lined
with portraits, and he has several fine paintings,
among which an Ophelia and Hamlet, by Sir Depls-
min West. is Iretmnent But the great thing in his
collection is Powerss first piece of sculpture, bust OF
Ginevra 4 remarkable work it is too, between
which and the Greek Slave it would really be difficult
to decide. so pure and serene face rs that OF til
nevra one seldom Sees in marble; and as first
effort il is marvellous. PowcrSs first piece of work
mausLip here was for the theater, illustrative of
Dantes Inferno. Ii had great and his serpent
still runs around the hall of establishment here.
The other things have been altered and replaced.
In the Cincinnati Cathedral which boasts of one Of
the finest seepeS in the country, are several very fine
pain tings, among them Hayden, all but one of which
are spoiled by being put in such light that they can
be seen at no hour in the day. The exceptional pic
ture over the aaran angel appearing to st. Peter
in prison. The apostles head is very fine, and the
cooring in parts of the painting exquisite. Ii is
from the hand of an unknown master, and from the
collection of Cardinal Fesch.
You are perhaps surprised that writing from
Porkopolis does not begin and end with talk about
pork and about pork alone. SO word Of it you shall
have. In the of drive yesterday, We passed
lines of pork warehouses; and went into establish
meIt where $4,000 hams are cured in year-an i'm
mense establishment, but arranged with the neatne -
of drawng.room, and exhaliDg perfume that would
convert jew from the error of his swne-hatng ways.
1T was pork ideaized," said one Of our party.
Rather say polk realized, responded lady.
Tie suburbs of Cincinnati are superb. For three
hours drove through the most exquisite scenery,
where one knew not which to admire, the exceeding
fertility Of the soil, the decacy and richness OF the
Spring foliage the fine ystas that opened down every
valley the rolling country that could be seen from tn
lil-;ops, or the taste which had put the right hous