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want is a very late blooming variety, with all other good points. I 

 am not certain but we shall get what we want some day, in the 

 form of a strawberry that grows its fruit buds the season of fruit- 

 ing. This would probably bring its season of fruiting in August. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Harris. I would like to know why the northeast slope is the 

 most favorable. 



Prof. Green. That would be my choice of a location because it 

 would retard the berries and they would be less liable to be 

 touched by late frosts. 



Mr. Wilcox. I would like to ask Prof. Green what three vari- 

 eties he would recommend as being best for the average planter in 

 this locality. 



Prof. Green. I would put the crescent first and foremost and 

 use for a pollenizer whatever bi- sexual variety grows best in the 

 neighborhood. I would use the Wilson, Countess or Captain Jack 

 for a pollenizer. I have some most excellent reports of the Wilson 

 being used as a pollenizer for the Crescent, but I put the Crescent 

 first and the Glendale second. There are many that come in for 

 third place. I should think that perhaps the Captain Jack might 

 come in there. Such has been our experience over at the station. 



Mr. Lamberton. You say every sixth row for a fertilizer. 



Prof. Green. I say at least every sixth row. 



Mr. Wilcox. I hardly agree with Prof. Green in recommending 

 the old standard varieties. I do not think our horticultural discus- 

 sions in regard to varieties should be limited to varieties and pro- 

 cesses of twenty years ago. I think this society is the very place 

 in which we ought to consider some of the new and promising vari- 

 eties, which promise to be a great improvement upon any of the 

 old varieties ; and it is proper that any of us who have had any ex- 

 perience with them should bring it out for the benefit of the pub- 

 lic. I myself, without personal experience, but from general re- 

 port, am very much pleased with the action of the Warfield, and I 

 have reason to think it is the coming berry as a market berry, and 

 there are several others of the newer varieties, for instance, the 

 Cloud Seedling of the south, which has certainly supplanted all 

 the old kinds, and in its growth is remarkable for health and vigor. 

 I, fo'r one, look forward to it with much hope. I hope that those 

 who have had experience with the newer varieties will give us the 

 benefit of it. 



Mr. Harris. I do not believe that the earliest blossoms of the 

 Crescent really need a fertilizer from the fact that the earliest bios- 



