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piles around the plant. Its fruit is more firm than the Wilson. I 

 have counted sixty-five perfect berries on one single footstalk; the 

 stalk was nearly half an inch in thickness. I never saw such loads 

 of fruit on any of the old kinds. The picker that picked three hun- 

 dred quarts of the Countess in ten hours could certainly pick fifty 

 more of the Luella in the same time. They could be picked by the 

 handful, as they grew on my plants. 



Prince of Berries. One of the best and sweetest berries grown. 

 The plant is a strong, robust grower and a good bearer of very large 

 fruit. One of the very latest to ripen, it wants the best of soil and 

 the best of cultivation, and then you get some of the finest of ber- 

 ries. Sells well and can be shipped a long distance. This is a 

 staminate. 



Piper Seedling was my first berry that I thought worthy of send- 

 ing out to the public. In some soils it bears very heavy crops. It 

 wants a rich soil, with a clay sub-soil, then it will bear abundantly. 

 The past season when I took my berries to market, one man said 

 they surpassed anything he ever saw for beauty and excellence com- 

 bined. They sell at first sight. This variety will take possession of 

 and hold the ground better against weeds and grass than an}^ other 

 kind I know of. It fruits much better the second and third seasons 

 than it does the next after setting. 



Crescent and Sharpless are two kinds that have never done well 

 on my place. 



I have some new seedlings that are not surpassed, if equaled, by 

 any, in bearing and good quality. Last season, in a space of four by 

 twenty-four feet, we picked thirty-two full quart boxes at one pick- 

 ing. One of these new berries I have named the Great Pacific. It 

 Avill yield one-third more than I ever saw the Crescent do. The 

 Great Pacific is what its name implies — great in all its proportions. 

 It is a great runner, and an enormous bearer of large berries. Every 

 runuer that sets in the fall, will bear fruit the following season. 

 I have seen the ground covered with its berries, and that without 

 any care or cultivation after setting. Plants set in August com- 

 pletely covered a space two feet wide with their berries the following 

 June, and were the surprise of everybody that saw them when they 

 were ripe. When kept in hills they literally pile their berries 

 around themselves. Plants set in my experimental lot in October, 

 1885, on a ridge like sweet potato ridges are commonly made, com- 

 pletely covered the ridge with their berries last June. 



The ground was apparently as dry as it could be, and yet pro- 

 ducing some of the finest berries. I think I have given the berries 

 planted in my experimental lot a severe test the past season, as there 

 was no rain from the 6th of May until the latter part of August. 

 In this lot I have other new seedlings, one of which did not ripen 

 until after all other berries were gone. It is a very strong grower 

 and a great bearer of very large berries. I have the Bubach No. 5 



