126 THE STRAWBERRY IN NORTH AMERICA 



Red Wood dominated the Boston market until the intro- 

 duction of the Hovey, in 1838. Between 1820 and 1840 

 the New York market was supplied chiefly with Crimson 

 Cone or Scarlet Runner, a variety of the Scarlet, raised 

 mainly near Hackensack, New Jersey. Anne Arundel 

 county, Maryland, began to grow strawberries for 

 Baltimore and Philadelphia about 1815; the varieties 

 were Hart, Large Early Scarlet and Stewart, all varieties 

 of the Scarlet. FoUomng the production of Keens' 

 Seedling, in 1819, a large number of varieties of the Pine 

 were introduced here. None achieved prominence save 

 the Mulberry, which was largely grown near Boston about 

 1835. At the close of this period, with the introduction 

 of the Hovey in 1838, such small beginnings in commercial 

 strawberry culture as had been made were almost wholly 

 with varieties of F. virginiana. 



The Hovey proved decidedly disappointing as a com- 

 mercial sort, although valued highly for home use. It did 

 not displace Large Early Scarlet, Hudson's Bay, Early 

 Hudson, Crimson Cone and other varieties of the Scarlet 

 in commercial culture. After 1848 it was rarely quoted 

 in any market except Boston. Excluding the wild berries, 

 which were brought to market in large quantities, it is 

 probable that over ninety-five per cent of the straw^berries 

 marketed before 1858, when the Wilson rushed to the 

 front, were pure varieties of F. virginiana. The Large 

 Early Scarlet retained prominence in western New York 

 until 1864, and was a leading commercial variety at Digh- 

 ton, Massachusetts, until 1865, under the name of "Old 

 Virginia" (Fig. 12). It passed out of cultivation in 

 North America about 1875, having been the dominant 

 variety for seventy-five years. 



Since the passing of Large Early Scarlet no varieties 



