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Mr. Arnold. — As I said before, no strawberry succeeded well with me this year. 

 Mr. Bucke. — What do you call your number eight? 

 Mr. Arnold. — That is the Alpha. 



Mr. Saunders. — Mr. Honsberger is in the room I believe. If so, I would like to 

 hear from him about the Early Canada. 



Mr. Honsberger. — This is the second year that I have fruited it to any considerable 

 extent. Last year I fruited an acre of it, this year four acres, and I have found it to do 

 very well. It has not done near as well this year as it did last on account of frosts and 

 other things. There appear to be quite a number of crippled berries ; and there has been 

 so much wet that the berries have been soft, which is a fault that all varieties of straw- 

 berries have had this year. The Early Canada has suited me very well. Like Mr. 

 Arnold I feel that if I can supply the early berries, I do not care who supplies the late 

 ones ; and I have found that with it I have been able to make two or three good ship- 

 ments before there has been any other strawberry in the market at all. 

 Mr. Denton. — How does that compare with the Wilson 1 



Mr. Honsberger. — Last year I grew the Wilson and the Early Canada side by side, 

 and the Early Canada yielded a bigger crop than the Wilson. We had them seven or 

 eight days before the Wilson last year, and picked them two or three days after. The 

 plants were the same age, received the same cultivation, and were in the same soil — 

 sandy loam. 



Mr. President Dempsey. — What other varieties have you 1 



Mr. Honsberger. — At present I have none but the Early Canada. I have been grow- 

 ing a large number of other varieties, but the most of them would come in too late to suit 

 me. I was very much impressed with the Charles Downing. I came to the conclusion 

 that that would be more profitable for me to grow than the Sharpless on account of its 

 ripening earlier than the Sharpless. It was not so large as the Sharpless ; but it would 

 ripen up uniformly. I fovind the Connecticut to be profitable on account of its lateness. 

 Mr. Saunders. — More so than the Dominion 1 



Mr. Honsberger.— I do not know that they were more profitable than the Dominion. 

 As a rule the Dominion is too soft for shipment, though I have shipped it as far as 

 Montreal. For a late berry for a local market I like it well and have done well with it. 

 Mr. Gott. — There is one variety — there are two varieties, I might say, that have been 

 developing in our neighborhood this year, and are giving us great satisfaction. One is 

 called the Duncan. It is a very excellent fruit and ought to be very profitable. Another 

 new variety, called Warren, is going to give us great satisfaction. It is inclined to be 

 soft, but it is going to be very profitable. 



Mr. Beadle. — I do not grow strawberries for market ; I grow them for the plants. 

 One variety which Mr. Smith speaks of as planting for market — the Glendale — I notice 

 is very disparagingly spoken of by others in articles I read ; and I was just comparing 

 in my mind what they say with what Mr. Smith says. What they say of it is that it is 

 a very tart berry with very little flavor — one which is rather soft for long shipments. 

 Perhaps Mr. Smith will set us right about it. 



Mr. a. M. Smith — I have the berries here. (Mr. Smith produces a sample of the 

 variety in question). 



Mr. Bucke. — Mr. White of Ottawa grew last year several varieties of strawberries, 

 and he found the Crescent seedling was the best — the most profitable — yielded the great- 

 est number of berries ; and it is the only one that has really stood the winter with him. 

 But I think it requires some other berry to grow near it, because there is not sufficient 

 pollen on the berry to fertilize it. 



Mr. a. M. Smith. — I think the Glendale will speak for itself. In regard to being a 

 solid berry for shipment, I would only recommend it as a late berry. 



Mr. Wellington. — I am like Mr. Beadle ; I do not grow for the fruit as much as for 

 the plants. Still, at the same time, I have some opportunity of testing them. Unfor- 

 tunately last season the grubs got into our plants so badly that many of the new varie- 

 ties that I thought we should have raised for the first this year got eaten up. The Man- 

 chester and the Bidwell I had hoped to be able to speak of from experience, but I cannot 

 do so. I think the Sharpless is a profitable berry. 1 found in Toronto this season that 



