The prize of $100, offered some three years ago by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, has been awarded this season to Mr. McAvoy, a cultivator of that vicinity. As Cincinnati is noted as the finest strawberry market in America, and as the horticulturists there are especially acute in strawberry lore, we naturally look for great merit in this prize production doubly endorsed. The fruit committee, in their report, speak of it as follows:

"McAvoy's No. 12 Seedling, we propose to call McAvoy's Superior; the specimens exhibited are superior to Hovey's Seedling, or any other strawberry that came under the examination of the committee, and it is entitled to the premium of $100 offered by this society in 1847." -------Seedling Apricots. - It is not a little remarkable, that numerous as are the fine varieties of peaches originated in this country, many of them so much better adapted to our climate than any of foreign origin, no one appears to have taken any pains with originating superior new apricots. The only native seedling of any mark that we know - Dubois' Early Golden - is far hardier, and more productive than any foreign sort, if we except the Breda, and there cannot be a doubt that a little pains taken in raising apricot seedlings, would reward us with fine new sorts of this agreeable mid-summer fruit, which would thrive with half the care now bestowed on European sorts - most of which are of tender origin.

At the present time, the apricot seems to succeed better in portions of Virginia, than in almost any part of the Union.