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rusts, small, poor color, productive ; Brandyvvine, vigorous plant, large, 

 poor color, fine flavor, not productive; Clyde, poor plant, large, poor 

 color and flavor, very productive ; Excelsior, vigorous plant, medium 

 size, good color, very sour, not productive; Gandy, vigorous plant, large 

 size, fair color, late, not productive; Greenville, vigorous healthy plant,, 

 large berry, fair color- and soft, very productive; Haverland, vigorous 

 plant, large berry, well colored and very productive; Klondyke, vigorous 

 plant, medium berry, pale color, productive ; Michell's Early, vigorous 

 plant, small, inferior, soft, not productive ; Monitor, resembles the Clyde,. 

 is very productive ; Parker Earle, vigorous plant, medium berry, good 

 color, very productive; Robinson, vigorous plant, medium berry, fine 

 color and flavor, not productive; Ridgeway, fine plant, medium berry, 

 fine color and flavor, not productive; Seaford, same as Bubach; Splen- 

 did, poor plant, large, good color, not productive ; Up-to-Date, failure 

 ni nearly every respect; Warfield, poor plant, medium berry, good color,, 

 very productive. 



The Haverland, all things considered, well deserves to be crow-ned 

 queen of strawberries ; comes early and stays to the end, "is no quitter, 

 and if I could only find a stamimate with as many good points, I would 

 discard all others and grow only the two varieties, as that would be all 

 I would need for either home use or for market. 



LIST OF BEST VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES. 



A. T. Nelson, .Laclede — Cumberland, Haverland, Bubach, Gandy. 



Alohler, Johnson — Michell, Excelsior, Sower. 



j. B. Wild, Jasper county — Alichell. Excelsior, Haverland, Aroma,. 

 Ridgeway, Lady T., Warfield. 



E. C. Markey, Johnson county — Haverland, Wolverton, Crescent,. 

 jMichell Early. 



G. T. Tippin, Greene county — Aroma, Haverland, Gandy, Warfield. 



]\Irs. Moore, Webster — Aroma, Gandy. 



C. H. Dutcher, Johnson county — Crescent, Haverland, Bubach. 



J. T. Stinson, Webster county — Aroma, Haverland, Gandy, Moolpy, 

 Crescent, AVarfield, Haverland. 



M. Butterfield, St. Francois county — Lady Rusk, Clyde, Ruby,. 

 Gardner. 



