I am indebted to Mr. George Ronalds for the following analysis of the strawberry, made by Thomas Richardson, of England, quoted from page 318 of the " Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry and the allied sciences, 1847-48".

In the May number of the Horticulturist may be found the subsequent analysis of the strawberry plant, by Mr. Bilius Kirtland, which is thus described. "One hundred and sixteen grains of the ashes were taken, prepared from the leaves and stalks, immediately after they had borne a moderate crop of fruit".

In the two analyses of the plant, the analysts coincide in the proportion of the potash; the discrepancy as to the other constituents is striking. In the analysis of the fruit, by Richardson, the predominance of soda will excite some surprise, although the potash holds a second and very important position. At the same time the united analyses of plant and fruit exhibit as the proportion of potash 59.72, and that of soda only 36.28.

Affirmative of the general rule. I stated last year, under the head of specific inorganic manures, that many strawberry plants apparently demand varied specific nutrition, as much so as different families of trees. A large bed was prepared and divided into three equal portions; one containing potash neutralized by muck; another ashes treated in the same manner; and last phosphate of lime (bone dust.) Lines of the same plants extended across the three soils. Boston Pine, Crimson Cone, Iowa, Burr's Seedling, Columbus, Rival Hudson, Late Prolific, Willey, British Queen, Myatt's Eliza, Victoria, Huntsman's Pistillate, Scarlet Melting, Ohio Mammoth, and Scioto, displayed a sturdy growth throughout this entire triple tract; at the same time they exhibited a positive preference for the potash over the ashes; for the ashes over the bone dust. The section of the triple tract, charged with potash, manifests an advantage this season much more conspicuous, the plants and the fruits having gained at least one-fourth over their associates.

Exceptional to the general rule. Directly opposed to the preceding results, however, Black Prince and Burr's New Pine became almost worthless in the same potash tract; while runners of 1850, transferred from these same plants to the natural soil of my grounds, well enriched with ordinary stable manure and street sweepings, have this year produced specimens of fruit nearly if not quite equal to their best reputation. Buist's Prize, also failed under potash nutrition, and developed the richest foliage and finest fruit in the department of phosphate of lime (bone dust.) Hovey's Seedling failed in a tract of phosphate of lime, yet rejoiced, with its luxuriant foliage and fruit, in a tract of soil supplied with lime as its main element.

William Cullen Beyant, Esq., who is equally at home, either in his town editorial chair, amid classic folios or political theses, or among strawberries or potatoes, at his cottage, so pleasantly nestling in the groves of Roslyn, has garnered into his pomological storehouse an extract which is quite pertinent at this moment: