A few years ago the "Mexican Everbearing" strawberry, as it was called, had a great run. It did remarkably well in cool boggy ground near Detroit, but did not do so well in the dryer soil of other localities. It was simply a variety of the Fragaria vesca, to which species all the Alpine varieties belong. It is not at all likely these will ever be grown to any extent for market. There would be no profit in them. Though more delicious than the ordinary kinds, the prices would have to be measured by regular strawberry prices, and the higher figures required for these would be against their success as a commercial speculation. But we never could understand why those who love amateur gardening should not have a good thing because there is no sale for it in market. Any one who has a piece of rich spongy ground, and in a spot not too hot during the fruiting season, would enjoy these Alpines.

These remarks are suggested by the fact that the French are very fond of Alpine, and new ones are continually being offered there. Just now they are a little wild over a novelty they call "The Generous," which, as with our new strawberries, is "to beat all its predecessors." The fruit is about 1 1/4 inches long, by 1/2 inch wide - about like the aforesaid " Mexican" has, and is to bear with equal abundance through the whole summer. As these come tolerably true from seed, they are offered of this variety, as well as plants, by the French growers.