VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES 465 



attractive dark red, and of most excellent quality. Another 

 valuable asset is lateness in blooming, whereby spring frosts are 

 escaped. Ford is a chance seedling found by Granvill Brewing- 

 ton, about 1913, in Winomico County, Maryland. 



Perfect or semi-perfect. Plants numerous, extremely vigorous, healthy, 

 very productive; leaves of largest size, very thick, markedly dark green, 

 rugose; flowers very late; fruit-stems very long, thick, erect, branching into 

 many long pedicels; calyx unusually large, flat, very leafy, attractive green. 

 Fruit very late, of largest size, regular, blunt-wedge to blunt-conic, attrac- 

 tive, glossy, medium to dark red, coloring somewhat unevenly; apex obtuse; 

 flesh red throughout, unusually juicy, firm, mild, sweet; quality good. 



754. Gandy (Fig. 294) has long been a standard sort in parts 

 of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, and 



is more or less grown throughout northern 

 United States. Its outstanding qualities are : 

 handsome, deep red, firm fruit of very good 

 quality; and late season, reaching the market 

 at the very close of the strawberry season. The 

 plants require moist heavy clay soils to pro- 

 duce sufficiently well ; they should be fruited 

 only one season. Gandy originated with W. 

 G. Gandy, Newport, New Jersey, in 1885. pi(j_ 294. Gandy. 



Perfect. Plants vigorous, low, spreading, somewhat susceptible to dis- 

 ease, productive, make runners freely; fruit-stems long and prostrate; 

 calyx large, easily detached. Fruit late, large, globose-conic, irregular; 

 color deep crimson; flesh firm, juicy, brisk subacid; quality good; core hol- 

 low; seeds numerous, raised. 



755. Glen Mary. — Once widely grown. Glen Mary is still 

 prized in New York and New England for its productive vines 

 and its handsome well-flavored fruits. Several faults mar the 

 variety : the fruit-stems are too slender to hold the fruit off the 

 ground; the foliage is susceptible to leaf -spot; the plants thrive 

 only on very heavy and enriched soils ; and the blossoms are not 

 self-fertile. The variety originated with J. A. Ingram, East 

 Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1896. 



Partially perfect. Plants rather small, spreading, fairly vigorous, some- 

 what susceptible to rust; runners moderate; leaves small, leaf -stalks slender; 

 fruit-stems slender, long, prostrate; calyx of medium size, flat, often dis- 

 colored. Fruit midseason, medium to large, conic, sometimes necked, irregu- 



