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The plants having been mulched during the past winter, the mulch was 

 removed in early spring, and the spaces between rows given shallow culture 

 and kept free from weeds. The result was an eminently satisfactory show 

 of fruit, at the season of ripening, in June last. 



Unfortunately, soon after ripening had commenced, a season of unusually 

 hot, drying weather set in, which soon began to tell upon the yet 

 immature fruit, while the constant tramping of pickers, as well as of the 

 numerous visitors, compacted and hardened the previously mellow surface, 

 with the result that, from one or both causes, a large percentage (probably 

 fully one half) of the prospective crop failed to mature. Possibly such 

 result might have been partially averted by continuing cultivation during 

 the season of ripening, though more or less to the inconvenience of employes 

 and visitors, but beyond doubt the more effective remedy would have been 

 irrigation — for resort to which, however, appliances were not at hand. 



Whether due to the early spraying, or to climatic or other causes, there 

 have been few if any depredations of either insect or fungi demanding 

 preventive or repressive applications during the growing season. After the 

 close of the fruiting season, a spray of Bordeaux was applied, to insure 

 healthy subsequent growth, it being proposed to continue the plat another 

 season for the purpose of comparing a second crop from this, with a first 

 crop from a similar plat planted last spring. 



In the following tabulated list of strawberries, descriptions of varieties 

 being, in such case, unavoidably brief and imperfect, are omitted, except- 

 ing only vigor of plant, size, productiveness, and firmness, which are 

 expressed upon the scale, 1 to 10 ; which scale is applied in the case of all 

 the small fruits, 10 representing the highest grade and 1 the lowest. 



TABULATED LIST OF STRAWBEREIES-1894. 



a 







1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 



6 



7 



8 



9 



10 



11 



12 

 13 

 14 

 15 



16 

 17 

 18 

 19 

 20 



21 

 22 

 23 

 24 

 25 



Name. 



Afton 



Alpha.. 



Aaburn 



Angwick 



Aaatralian... 



Banquet 



Barton 



Beaaty 



Beder Wood. 

 Belts 



Bessie 



Beverly 



Brandywine . 



Brunette 



Boynton 



Bnbach 5 



Bnbach 24 ... 

 Babachl37 .. 

 Cameronian . 

 Chairs 



Childs 



Cleveland ... 

 Consensus ... 

 Copernicns.. 

 Crawford 



Remairks, 



One of the earliest. 



New; promising. 



A thin stemd of pliints. 



A dessert variety. 

 Not a full stand. 



Sent out as Racster. 

 Flavor mild. 



Stand quite defective. 

 Stand not full. 

 Promising. 



Showy; market. 



Imperfect stand. 

 Mrs. Cleveland. 

 New; promising. 

 New; promising. 



