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Descriptions of the two varieties named are enclosed, to be in- 

 corporated ill this report; als(j an iii(|iiiry from W. H. Holmes, 

 Esq., of Davenport, Iowa, as to the amount of unleached ashes that 

 can be readily used on strawberry plants. My own experience has 

 been only with the leached ashes, liberally applied and result 

 satisfactory. 



PiiiNCETON, III.. Nov. 17, LS86. 



Dear Friend : Your card askiiij? for a full descrii)tion of my No. 5 

 strawberry is received and I am sorry I can not give you a fuller descrip- 

 tion than the one in my circular, although I liave received many en- 

 couraging letters eulogizing its line growth and the highly i)romising ap- 

 pearance of the plants and berries. Even from Florida, where very few 

 varieties succeed, the plants and berr es are both doing liiu'ly, and the party 

 thinks there will be a great demand for plants and berrie§ wiien the 

 public become acquainted with them, and I have been informed that there 

 is but one variety that, so far, has been a real success in Florida. 



J. G. liUBACH. 



Sandov.'\l, III., Nov. 2d, 1886. 

 Mii. Samuel Euwakds:— 



Dear Sir : Yours of October 30th at hand, asking for a history and de- 

 scription of my new seedling berry No. 2, and plants of same. I found the 

 plant growing near my barn, with a good many others, from seed scattered 

 there by cliance. From the lot of plants I i)ieked out seventeen and set 

 them out in my garden, and in 1884 they all fruited for tiie tirs,t time. 



This one Tcall AVarheld's No. 2, and the other I call No. 1. I will now 

 describe my No. 2— the one I think the most of: Plant, strong grower, 

 making plants as freely as Crescent, with long roots going down deej) in 

 the soil, well calculated to stand drouth. The jdant is a pistilate, the leaves 

 are of a yellow hue, compared with Crescent— as much difference in color 

 as the foliage of the Old Mixon and Crawford's Late Peach. The blossoms 

 are dark yellow in the center, the darkest color I ever saw, and in that re- 

 spect different from any I remember of seeing. 



The blossoms are protected by leaves from late frosts. Looking down 

 the rows in spring, (>ne can't see so many blossoms as Crescents. Jiut open 

 the leaves and you are satisfied with its setting fruit. The berry is as early 

 as Crescent. 



It beats Crescent in first picking. Crescent only beat it one picking, 

 and after the fourth time going over the vines, my seedling gained on that 

 variety. 



Hut to come back to the description. It is larger than Crescent, of a 

 dark, glossy, red color, quite acid; like the Wilson when it first colors, but 

 it gets dark red and sweet when fully ripe like that variety, and flavor so 

 much like Wilson that some of our old berry-growers thought they were 

 Wilson's in 18S5. 1 let the berries of my No. 2 stand on the vines live days 

 and then picked all that were ripe, put tliem in cases and sent them up to 

 H. D. Woolsey, Polo, 111.; made an X on the cases and wrote Mr. Woolsey 

 to know tiie result. He wrote me: "They arrived in line condition and 

 sold for twelve and a half cents per ({uart as soon as tliey arrived." I did 

 this to test them. I never tried to sliip the old Wilson so ripe. The men 

 who handled my i)erries— and I sent them some fine .tucker State and 

 Minor's Prolilic -pronounced my Seedlintr No. 2 the i)est of all. As Delano 

 ^ Son of Princeton word it: "None of the others stand ui)and look bright 

 as long as your No. 2." I have live acres of them to fruit next year, and all 

 that have seen them say I have the finest patch in the country. 



