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Table XI. — Yield of Varieties Fruited in Two-year Old Beds 

 IN 1895, Together With the Yield of Same Beds in 1894, 

 When They Were But One Year Old. 



Several varieties that were fruited in one year beds gave a larger 

 yield than any of the varieties in two-year old beds, a result in line 

 with the common experience that the first crop from a bed of straw- 

 berries is usually the best. The table shows that only five of the 

 twenty-six varieties named in the list (19 per cent.) gave a better 

 yield in the second season than they did the first, while many varie- 

 ties deteriorated so much as to be unprofitaljle in two-year beds. 



The evidence of this table confirms the opinion formed after 



studying the tests of hundreds of new strawberries that have been tried 



at this Station, namely, that a large proportion of them ought never to 



• have been introduced into cultivation because they are inferior to 



well-known cultivated sorts. 



