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orous health, while in the same field Fameuse, Haas, Peweukee, Golden Russet, 

 and many others are dying or dead from the winter injury of 1884. 



In the nursery these trees will make glad the heart of him who has been 

 • accustomed to see his young stock frozen back more or less every winter. 

 Nearly all are very upright in habit, and rarely fail to start from the terminal 

 bud. All carry an abundance of luxuriant foliage, and a planting of grafts, 

 with good treatment, will turn out a very large per cent of salable trees. 



J. S. Stickney. 

 Several remarked as to the way the 



JEWELL STRAWBERRY 



had behaved in Michigan, which brought out the following from P. M. 

 Augur, the disseminator of that variety: 



New fruits are quite likely to be over praised by interested disseminators. 

 Mr. Hills of Plaiston, N; H., says, " we are paying $2 per dozen continuously 

 for new varieties highly lauded which are of no value." He is "glad to 

 hear the Jewell represented in the discussion as so promising." The public 

 in Michigan would undoubtedly like another year's experience with the 

 Jewell. 



Its peculiarities. First, the plant is exceptionally large and strong, 

 specially adapted to single rows or the hill system of culture ; it makes 

 plants fairly but not profusely ; indeed the plants differ in this respect, some 

 will make fifty to seventy new plants, while others make very few indeed. 

 The Jewell needs more attention to secure a good stock of j^lants than most 

 varieties. Our practice, however, secures success in all cases; it is this, we 

 select ideal plants for our stock, choosing the best; we plant on good, well 

 fertilized land, cultivate well; begin pressing in summer as soon as the 

 rootlets show, laying a small stone on each joint and repeat frequently. So 

 we get our ground well stocked with plants by October 1. Second, under 

 the best circumstances new plants set as soon as August 1, and given best 

 culture with runners all cut off, will average the next June a quart to a 

 plant (2 feet by 1^ feet). Single plants under such treatment have on our 

 grounds touched both ways and given two quarts of large berries to a single 

 plant as a maximum. 



The Jewell, as an enormous bearer of large berries, on our grounds has no 

 peer; neither the Wilson nor Crescent can equal it or even approach it; but 

 to attain perfection in ripening it should be in hills or narrow rows. The 

 Orescent is called the lazy man's berry. The Jewell is not so ; we do not 

 recommend it to a careless man; just as the short-horn steer wants the best 

 feed and care to gain 2 lbs. per day from birth to maturity, so does Jewell 

 strawberry. But you say the same feed and care will reach the same results 

 with any steer. No, sir, by no means; we must first have the capacity, then 

 the requirement to fill it. With the Jewell under high culture we have the 

 capacity met. In Jane of this year (1886), rows fourteen rods long of 

 Wilson, Prince, Dan'l Boone, James Vick, Downing, Gypsey, Sharpless, 

 Manchester, Mrs. Garfield, and several others, and the Jewell, the last, 

 aggregated 50 per cent more than any and four times more than most of 

 them. On June 30 Jewells same length, etc., gave thirty-eight to fifty 

 quarts to the row in matted rows; Sharpless, same date, twelve to thirteen 

 •quarts. July 7, Jewell, twenty-seven quarts to the row ; Sharpless, one to 



