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There will be no use in going into any long description of the 

 varieties in these bnt give simply the leading features of each of 

 the new ones. 



Albany — As usual almost a failure under favorable circum- 

 stances. 



Afrique — Xot yet ripe. Productive. Medium size, nearly 

 black. 



Charles Downing — Not as good as usual. 



Crescent — Always fine for its class, but not a favorite with me. 



Crystal City — A good crop of excellent berries of good size 

 and quality, and one week the earliest. 



Captain Jack — Like it. Always is first-rate every way. 



Cumberland Triumph. — Fine as usual, but not a big crop. 



Cornelia (Crawford^'s). — A new late one not yet ripe, promising. 



Crawford's No. 6 — No fruit on. 



Downer's Prolific — Too soft. 



Daniel Boone — Very promising. Large, productive and good. 



Daisy — This again promises to be one of our most productive 

 large berries and certainly will become a market berry. 



Fairy — A white berry of good quality, much like Lenning's 

 white. 



Great America — Splendid, what few we have. 



Grlendale — G-ood as usual, but its big ruffle detracts from its 

 ap]3earance in the box. 



Hart's Minnesota — A si:)lendid berry. 



Howell's Prolific — A failure in the old bed, but splendid on 

 plants set out last fall. 



Ida — Immensely productive, but too small for market. 



James Vick — This is about all that could be wished except 

 that it bears too much, there is not room to get large. 



Jersey Queen. — Of all the strawberries I have ever cultivated 

 in forty years, none ever pleased me so well the first year's bearing, 

 as this royal, glorious, grand, noble berry. Productive, largest size; 

 firm in texture; quality first-rate, and one of the latest. Beautiful 

 in color, like the Triumph de G-rand. 



Jumbo — No fruit ; is to be the latest. 



Lenning's White — Good, but not productive enough. 



Ladies Pine — This berry I thought extinct, but have been for- 

 tunate enough to get it again; and say just now, what I did twenty- 

 five years ago: that it is by far the finest flavored strawberry we have; 

 size, small, jjink colored, not very firm, tolerably productive, not a 

 market fruit, but should be in every man's garden. 



