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the introduction of several varieties claimed to be perpetual bear- 

 ers, but later proved to have no such tendency at all. A few years 

 ago a variety was offered under the name of St. Joseph, which did 

 have a slight tendency to produce some fruit at intervals during 

 the season, but being of foreign origin it could not stand our con- 

 ditions of soil and climate, and was not a success. Repeater was 

 offered with the claim that it was a positive ever-bearer, and in 

 every way a first-class variety. Never was I more disappointed in 

 a variety than in this one, because it was offered by a firm that I 

 always had a great deal of confidence in, and when it turned out to 

 be poorer than the average variety in cultivation at that time, and 

 produced but one crop of fruit, and that at the time when most 

 other sorts ripen, you can well imagine my disgust. Many others 

 were sent out with this false claim, and after all the old Cumberland 

 Triumph produced more fall berries than any other variety on the 

 list. It was never considered a fall bearer, but when conditions 

 were just right it frequently has produced good fruit in the fall, 

 and enough of it to make it worth while to send it to market. The 

 eagerness with which these berries were accepted, and the high 

 prices they brought, no doubt had much to do with stimulating the 

 efforts to produce varieties that could be relied upon to produce a 

 good crop in the fall. 



In a recent issue of the Rural World, I made a report on the 

 Pan-American strawberry, which shows clearly that at last we have 

 found a variety that is truly a perpetual bearer, and if properly 

 handled, will produce a full crop of luscious fruit in the fall which 

 will sell at the grower's own price. What I mean by properly 

 handled is this : If allowed to do so, the plant will bear continu- 

 ously, showing at all times blossoms, green and ripe fruit. Al- 

 though the plant is exceptionally vigorous it nor any other sort will 

 ever be able to hold up and give best results if allowed to have its 

 own way in this regard. The best method of procedure from the 

 standpoint of profit is to keep all blossoms pinched off until the 

 first of July. By this time, with proper treatment, the plants will 

 have developed large fruit crowns and will produce a crop equal to 

 that of the best varieties we have been growing in the past in their 

 respective season. 



But, better still, I have another variety to speak of : a seedling 

 of Pan-American, which, being a pistillate, is, when properly pol- 

 lenized by its parent, a still more reliable late summer and fall crop- 

 per than its parent ,with the additional advantage of throwing cut 

 runners freely, thus giving one a chance to soon work up a stock of 



