EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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STRAWBERRIES.— Continued. 



Fungi (Spfioerella fragariae Sacc.) 



a. clear. c. much spotted. 



b. slightly spotted d. very badly spotted. 



6. general discoloration from 

 whatever cause. 



Sex. 



B. bisexual. 

 P. pistillate. 



color is needed to insure to this a prominent position as a market variety; 

 since, in most other re.^pects, both plant and fruit are satisfactory. 



Bubach No. 5, P. {'pistillate) Although requiring a fertilizer, and lacking 

 the firmness requisite for distant marketing, this variety possesses, with 

 uniformly large size, such an assemblage of valuable qualities, of both 

 plant and fruit, that it has already assumed a high, if not even a leading, 

 position among market varieties. 



Burt, B., sent out two or three years ago, from Northern New York, 

 was, for a time, quite generally suspected to be an old variety re-named. 

 The plants received here, however, are clearly distinct. Two years' fruit- 

 ing have shown valuable qualities of both plant and fruit; affording 

 ground for the conviction that, though of only medium size, it may be 

 expected to take rank among the more profitable market varieties. 



Captain Jack, B., has long been known to possess many valuable 



