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Story," which received ethusiastic applause. Mrs. Day then 

 responded with a second selection, entitled, " A Green Pea 

 Story,"' The convention now adjourned until morning 

 without transacting further business. 



MORNING session, 



Thursday, June 17, 1886. 



The meeting was called to order at half after nine o'clock. 

 Mr. Phillips moved that a committee of three be appointed 

 to report before the close of the meeting, on the experience 

 of strawberry growers, and especially to report on the visit 

 to Mr. Loudon's grounds yesterday afternoon, and the kind 

 treatment received there. The motion was unanimously 

 carried, and the president said he would appoint the com- 

 mitte in a few moments. 



President Smith — The discussion with regard to varieties 

 of strawberries will now be taken up. I understand that 

 Mr. Loudon is not a speech maker, but a worker, but we 

 shall be grateful if he will tell us in his own way, for in- 

 stance, how he originated the Jessie, and how long since he 

 originated it, and what it has done in years past compared 

 with the condition in which we saw it yesterday, and how 

 it has borne, and whether more or less than usual this year, 

 and whether aftected by the drought ? 



Mr. Loudon — 1 am not exactly prepared to answer all 

 these questions, but from my recollection I can give you an 

 outline. Some thirty years ago I wrote an essay which will 

 give the data just ;)S well as I can. I was satisfied that 

 strawberries could be made like other fruits. Thirty years 

 ago there wero not very many strawberries in existence, I 

 could not raise any large ones. My real success began 

 about fifteen years ago. I had practiced all sorts of 

 methods, I used then some Mackavoy's Superior and one 

 Long's Prolific, and crossed them with some other varieties, 

 which I do not remember now. About twelve years ago I 

 began to get some very fine and very large strawberries, 

 but they lacked either productiveness or quality, and many 



