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Crescent {Pistillate). This standard variety I put at the head; 

 for it justly belongs there, on account of its productiveness, ease of 

 cultivation, hardiness, and value as a market berry. It came 

 through last winter as well as any other berry in our collection. 



Glendale (Bisexual). A very valuable, well known variety of 

 strong growth, -very popular as a market sort. 



Wilson. A popular old variety that retains much of its pristine 

 vigor in many sections. 



Old Ironclad (Bi- sexual). Somewhat resembles the Wilson, 

 an excellent market berry of good quality. Not prolific. 



May King (Bisexual). I came to Minnesota with the idea 

 that this variety was going to supplant the Crescent, as it promised 

 to do in the East, but I have found it to grow here not nearly so 

 strong nor to be so productive as the Crescent, while it is much 

 more susceptible to drouth. It is, however, a good variety under 

 favorable conditions. 



Belmont (Bisexual). A promising variety, with oblong dark 

 crimson berries and free calyx, sweet and good, but a little too soft 

 for a distant market; blossoms late in season. 



Bubach, No. 5 (Pistillate). A very strong grower, with healthy 

 foliage; blossoms partially protected by foliage, and not much in- 

 jured by late frosts last spring; flower clusters large and strong; 

 not of high quality nor a good shipping variety, but prolific under 

 high culture. 



Gandy (Bisexual), Foliage strong and healthy; season very 

 late; fruit stalks erect and well filled; berries large but sparingly 

 produced. 



Mammoth (Bisexual). Foliage good; berries large but spar- 

 ingly produced. 



Park Beauty. This is weakly staminate, and should be treated 

 as a pistillate variety. Growth remarkably strong and healthy, 

 producing an immense number of runners; fruits abundantly; re- 

 sembles the Crescent in fruit, but its flower stems and leaf stalks 

 are rather longer. 



Jessie (Bisexual). I am somewhat disappointed in this variety. 

 It has not fruited so abundantly as I expected. It is undoubtedly 

 a good variety in some locations for the near market. Foliage and 

 vigor satisfactory. This is the variety of which Mr. Davis of 

 Northampton, Mass., raised at the rate of 1184 bushels to the acre. 



Lady Ptusk (Pistillate). This variety we received last spring 

 from the originators, The Nauvoo Fruit Growers Association, of 

 Nauvoo, 111. They claim it as early as the Crescent, as strong a 

 grower, a better shipper, and that the berries never rot but dry up. 

 It is one of the strongest growers I know of; have not fruited it. 



Warfield, No. 2 (Pistillate). This comes very highly recom- 

 mended, and has perhaps more good things said about it than" any 

 other new variety; a strong grower. Have not fruited it. 



Ohio (Pistillate). Much injured by the winter, and fruited but 

 little. 



While many new varieties of the strawberry are being introduced, 

 we have not yet seen the one ideal berry for Minnesota. What we 



