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popularity is due to its healthy foliage and the firm flesh and 

 deep red color of the berries. The quality is 

 W not of the best, and the hulls do not part 



readily from the berries. Klondike originated 

 with R. S. Cloud, Independence, Louisiana. 



Perfect. Plants vigorous, healthy, productive; 

 leaves large, dark green; leaf -stems long; fruit- 

 stems long and thick, often single, erect ; blooms in 

 midseason; calyx large, reflexed, strongly tinged with 

 dull red, flat or sunken. Fruit large, midseason, re- 

 tains size as the season advances, blunt, round-conic, 

 dark, dull, scarlet ; flesh dark red, very firm, acid ; 

 Fig. 299. Kloiulike. rather poor in quality. 



761. Lupton. — Grown in southern New Jersey for the Phila- 

 delphia market, Lupton has to recommend it remarkably hand- 

 some fruits which ship well. The berries are so coarse and dry 

 in flesh and so uninteresting in flavor that the variety is one of 

 the poorest in quality of all strawberries. The foliage is suscep- 

 tible to leaf -spot. This is a comparatively new^ kind introduced 

 by M. D. Lupton, Newport, New Jersey, in 1915. 



Perfect. Plants large, vigorous, productive, susceptible to leaf -spot; 

 make runners freely. Fruit midseason, very large, often double; color 

 bright red, glossy, seldom turning dark after picking; flesh firm, dry, mild; 

 quality poor. 



762. Marshall. — Long a commercial variety of high standing 

 in the northeastern states, Marshall fails south of Delaware and 

 Pennsylvania. Wherever grown, the berries are a standard of 

 excellence in quality. The plants require heavy rich soils and 

 intensive culture to force the foliage sufficiently to withstand 

 leaf-spot. The plants produce large crops of handsome well- 

 flavored berries. Marshall originated with M. F. Ewell, Marsh- 

 field Hills, Massachusetts. 



Perfect. Plants medium in number, productive; leaves large, light to 

 dark green; stout, usually double, prostrate; blooms in midseason; calyx 

 of medium size, discolored, depressed. Fruit very large, midseason, round- 

 conic, surface often irregularly furrowed, dark scarlet; flesh well colored, 

 firm, juicy, pleasant acid, of high flavor; very good; seeds large, raised. 



763. Missionary. — This new variety is the leading commercial 

 sort in central Florida, and is more or less grown in eastern 



