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nial Favorite, Miner, Kentucky, Sharpless, Cinderella, Champion, Crystal 

 City, Capt. Jack, Col. Cheney, Seth Boyden, Cowing's Seedling. 



For distant market : Sharpless, Capt. Jack, Chas. Downing, Wilson, 

 Continental, Prouty. 



For high cultivation in hills or single rows for home use and for fancy 

 berries: Sharpless, Great American, Crescent, Seth Boyden, Miner, 

 Monarch of the West, Essex Beauty, Centennial Favorite. 



There are other varieties which produce large, fine fruit, and have 

 high local reputation ; among which are Pioneer, Star of the West, 

 Springdale, Sterling, which, though grown on my place, my observation 

 will not warrant me in fixing their places in these lists. 



Forest Rose, which has during the last two years enjoyed so high a 

 reputation, recovered partially from the rust which afflicted it so terribly 

 last year and bore a large crop, though the fruit was scarcely medium in 

 size. 



In my report upon New Fruits I will speak of the habits of some 

 varieties of recent introduction. 



Dr. Schrgeder. — Will you give the names of three or four varieties 

 which are the best for everybody to plant ? 



Mr. Galusha. — I don't know any such varieties; as I intimated in 

 my report it is impossible to name even one variety which is best every- 

 where, for what would be best for me might not be best for Dr. 

 Schroeder. 



Dr. Schrceder. — Well, give us the names of three or four varieties 

 that are generally best. 



Mr. Galusha. — The Doctor will find them in the list; for I stated 

 in the report that I named them in the order of their merit or ^^«<fr<7/ 

 success. I do not say that I would plant, for the purposes named, from 

 either of those lists, in the order in which the varieties are named, but I 

 have given these lists as vs\y present judgment of the general comparative 

 value of varieties for such soils and for the purposes named. 



E. HoLLiSTER, Senr., of Alton, member of the Committee on 

 Strawberries, was not present, but the Secretary read the following report 

 which had been forwarded : 



In this locality the spring of 1879 ^i'^ ^o^g be remembered for its 

 disastrous results on this crop, the season being three weeks later than 

 the last, and so dry, that everything suffered. On April 7th, we had a 

 slight rain, and on the 14th quite a heavy shower, from which time till 

 May 13th it was terribly dry. 



The first ripe Strawberries were received in this market May 19th, 



Chas. Downing, from a two-year-old bed, not mulched. From my 



own place I picked the first quarts of strawberries from Triumph de 



Gand, May 26, and found Crescent Seedling, Cumberland Triumj)h, 



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