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Home of R. L. Cloud, 
Klondike, 
Hammond, La. 
Cloud, and other widely grown varieties. 
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STRAWBERRIES ORIGINATED 
In the garden around this house were produced the 
The field in the foreground is at 
present occupied by Payday, a variety which Mr. Cloud plans to introduce to the trade. 
(Fig. 1.) 
esting characteristic of this seedling 
used as one of the parents in producing 
-ayday is that on any one plant a few 
flowers have stamens but most of them 
have none. 
The Payday, says Mr. Cloud, is the 
best of the two new varieties, and he 
regards it as an improvement over the 
Klondike. He reports it to be superior 
to the Klondike in the number of crowns 
made by the individual plant, in the 
vigor of the plant, in having the stems 
of the berries recurved, in having a 
darker colored berry, in bearing fr uit 
of better quality, and in having a shor ter 
period between the blossoming time 
and the ripening of the fruit. 
Believing that a large number of 
crowns in a plant indicates productive- 
ness, he has endeavored to secure a 
variety having many crowns. One 
characteristic of the Klondike which 
532 
helped to make it a success is its rich 
red color and in his later work Mr. 
Cloud has endeavored to get seedlings 
bearing berries of a still deeper color. 
Mr. Cloud correlates acidity of fruit 
with good shipping quality and in his 
recent work has tried to secure a 
variety with the acidity of the Klon- 
dike. The Payday has a strongly 
acid berry, but combined with the 
acidity, a more desirable flavor. 
To get earlier ripening varieties, two 
lines of work have been followed. 
Some varieties have flower-stems that 
curve as soon as the petals begin to drop. 
In a very short time the green berries 
are protected by the foliage of the 
plant. Frosts, cold winds, or rains are 
not as likely to injure berries borne on 
the recurved stems as on stiff, straight 
stems. Another way to secure earlier 
berries is to lessen the period between the 
