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would be no trouble from exhaustion of the potash, and that he 

 thought the cultivation of potatoes left the ground in the best 

 possible condition for strawberries the following season. In re- 

 gard to these seedlings there need be no trouble in getting pure 

 plants. If any seedlings appear they will be in the center of the 

 bed, and will not develop runners for some time. By taking the 

 runner sets on the outer edges of the bed you will get pure 

 plants. 



Mr. Harris thought that in many cases where the variety sold 

 was not true to the name given, the fault was not justly charged 

 on the nurseryman. They buy varieties to propagate, and do 

 not know for some time that they have not got the true kind. A 

 strawberry raiser who tries to keep his stock pure, wanted to 

 raise a large number of plants of a new variety, so he bought 

 several thousand plants of a ]!^ew York dealer and set out a large 

 piece. They proved to be another variety and were perfectly 

 worthless. The Wilson has been disseminated in many cases in 

 the same way. We want pure Wilsons and send an order east 

 to some one who advertises pure plants, and we sometimes get a 

 mixture or anything that comes handy. 



President Smith knew of two orders for Wilsons that were 

 sent to Boston and there was not the slightest resemblance to 

 the Wilson in the plants received. 



Mr. J. S. Stickney knew from experience that it was easy for 

 this error to be passed along and to be repeated many times in 

 the same year before it was detected. Some years ago, the same 

 year probably with the case to which Mr. Kellogg referred, they 

 planted a full acre in the same way. They bought the plants in 

 Michigan, set them out with great care; removed every blossom 

 so as to throw all their vigor and strength into new plants. The 

 variety so closely resembled the Wilson that they did not discover 

 the error until they had already sold plants to at least two 

 hundred different people. When it fruited the next spring they 

 detected that it was a fraud and did what they could to correct 

 the mistake. In this instance it was done in perfect innocence, 

 and he had no doubt but that the same thing occurred frequently. 



