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not the Wilson. The Wilson is rarely, if ever, known to fail in 

 seasons where there were any blossoms on the plants. He had 

 Hot known it to happen during the last twenty-five years. 



President Smith said that if you buy plants for Wilsons, and 

 they prove to be something else, it is not certain that the one who 

 sells them is dishonest. There are other varieties that look like 

 the Wilson, when they are growing, both in form and leaf. He 

 was among the first in the state to get the Wilson, but with all 

 his experience he had had a number of varieties that out of their 

 own beds, comparing the leaves and plants with the Wilson, he 

 could not say with certainty that they were not the Wilson. But 

 the practical testis the sure one. If you have the pure Wilson, 

 and put them on good land, and give them good cultivation, you 

 cannot keep them from bearing in an ordinary season, unless you 

 pick off the blossoms. Frost may possibly kill them, but it will 

 not kill all. Their tendency is to overbearing. It had been his 

 experience that they would bear themselves to death, and on ac- 

 count of this pecu liarity he had made it a rule, when the first 

 crop was a good one, such as they usually bear, to turn the plants 

 under, as they have not enough vitality left to bear a good crop 

 the next season. If the plants are Wilsons they will bear. 

 During the last twenty years he had been to see many beds of 

 those who said they had Wilsons, but they would not bear, and 

 in every instance he had found that they were something else 

 than the Wilson. 



Mr. Kellogg did not believe that there was any excuse for a 

 dealer in strawberry plants, who sent out plants marked Wilson, 

 that were not. It was often done, and they are not readily de- 

 tected until they have made quite a growth. He could cite an 

 instance near here, where an acre or more had been set in this 

 way, and in the Fall their character was detected and the bed was 

 turned under. There were a few Wilsons among them, but the 

 greater part were something else. At the December meeting of 

 the Illinois Horticultural Society, one of the best growers of 

 that state said he did not know of any pure Wilsons, and he is 

 engaged in selling plants, too. He should not regard it much of 

 a recommend for a dealer to continue to send out plants which 



