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Mr. Wellington. — I grow all the different varieties, mostly for the plants. Of 

 course we fruit them all, and have considerable fruit each year on our grounds. If I 

 were going to plant them as an amatuer I would put down the Sharpless. The New 

 Dominion I believe to be one of the best strawberries we have, as is also the Cumberland 

 Triumph. I would cultivate the Monarch for my own use ; but it is useless for the 

 market on account of its not ripening or colouring at the point. To my taste it is good 

 however. The Bidwell is another berry that I think will come into general favour. Of 

 course it has not been thoroughly tested yet. The Crescent Seedling is an enormous- 

 cropper, but to my taste it is inferior in flavour, and of course not good for shipping. T 

 suppose, for shipping purposes alone, or for productiveness, the old Wilson has not as yet 

 been superseded. 



Mr. Morris. — One of the most profitable berries among the common varieties is, I 

 think, Captain Jack. I believe it will outyield any of them ; and it will ship quite as 

 well as the Wilson, keeping its colour longer. The Wilson, the Captain Jack, and the 

 Crescent, are, I think, the most profitable to grow for money. I have great faith in this- 

 New Dominion. I have given a very large order for plants of it. 



A Member. — I would like to ask any gentleman to say how Canada and the New 

 Dominion are with regard to fertilizing. 



Mr. Arnold. — The New Dominion is quite perfect — needs no other variety with it. 

 I cannot speak of the Early Canada. 



Mr. Honsberger. — I came to the conclusion that the Early Canada was very pro- 

 ductive. 



Mr. Arnold. — I would say a word in favour of Mary Fletcher. If you have not 

 cultivated the Mary Fletcher you do not, I was going to say, know what a good straw- 

 berry is. It is decidedly the best strawberry grown. This variety was sent to me from 

 Nova Scotia. I had little faith in it at first ; the climate did not seem to suit it, but for 

 several years past it has been one of the finest gi'owers we have. It bears a first-class 

 crop ; perhaps not equal to the Wilson sometimes, but no one would take the Wilson straw- 

 berry after tasting the Mary Fletcher, if they could get the Mary Fletcher. It is not 

 very large, but it is delicious. The Sharpless has been a failure with me. One of the 

 finest old varieties that I rember is the Nicanor. That is, for flavour, but it never looks 

 ripe ; it is always white on the tips, and you take it to market, and people will sometimes- 

 tell you it is not ripe. The old Hooker has also a fine flavour. I . have raised several 

 thousand seedlings, and even in my own family we did not agree with regard to them. 

 My wife selected one as the best, one of my daughters selected another as the best, and I 

 selected a third as the best. The Alpha, I believe to be one of the best when planted on 

 sandy soil ; and it is a good shipping berry. Maggie and Bright Ida are not such good 

 shipping berries, but for the market they could not be beaten. The one I named after 

 myself could not be beaten in flavour, though it has a peculiar flavour which some might 

 not like. 



Mr. Woodward. — 1 have a friend in Hartford, Connecticut, who produces the most- 

 startling results with the Sharpless of any berry I know. He is a very good cultivator, 

 and manures very highly. He has been producing two quarts to the vine. I have been 

 doing the same in my garden, and they are getting on remarkably. I am manuring with 

 bonedust and ashes. I have received a letter from this gentleman, and he says some of 

 the berries have gone considerably over two quarts to the single vine during the season. 



Mr. Bucke. — The two strawberries that we hear the most of in Ottawa are Mr. 

 Arnold's 23 — I believe it is called Arnold's Pride — and the New Dominion. Sharpless 

 has done very fairly ; but the berries are not uniform in size. Some people like it very 

 well. I do not think it yields so good a crop with us as either Arnold's Pride or the 

 New Dominion. I went to work, some years ago, when 1 commenced to grow straw- 

 berries, and manured them very heavily, and I found I got more leaves than berries. I 

 put on barnyard manure. 



Mr. Beall. — We grow nothing but Wilson's Albany. We cannot find anything 

 else that will pay as well, and it is always a certain crop. It never fails with us. 



Mr. Willard.— When the New Dominion was first brought out Mr. Smith sent me 

 some plants. I set them out and continued to cultivate them, and we like them very 



