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of the name of Everbearing; for the Alpine, after the 

 first crop, rarely produces much fruit through the season. 

 Thirty years ago I met with a solitary strawberry plant 

 on Mt. Adams, then in bloom. I removed it to my garden, 

 and the plant not only bloomed freely till frost, but all 

 the runners threw out blossoms at the same time that 

 they made roots and bore abundantly till late in the 

 fall. The fruit was small, but of fine flavor." Long- 

 worth was assured by Mr. Lewis, a pioneer of Green 

 county, Ohio, that this everbearing sort abounded in 

 that county in earlier years. No further mention is 

 made of it. 



About this time the Crescent Seedling Perpetual 

 achieved notoriety. It was originated by Henry Law- 

 rence, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and was said by him 

 to be British Queen X Keens' Seedling. He introduced it 

 in 1848. As grown at New Orleans, it " bore continuously 

 for six months, from Christmas until the fifteenth of July." 

 The Horticulturist warned its readers that this statement 

 was "preposterous," but many northern growers paid 

 eight dollars a dozen for plants. In the North, it produced 

 only a spring crop of rather inferior berries and soon was 

 discarded. It took a number of experiences like this to 

 convince northern horticulturists that the everbearing 

 habit of the strawberry in the far South is due to climate, 

 and is not an inherited character. About 1854 Charles 

 A. Peabody, of Columbus, Georgia, achieved a national 

 reputation for his supposed skill in being able to make 

 the Hovey and Large Early Scarlet bear continuously for 

 six months. His method was to train the plants in hills, 

 use no manure or other stimulating fertilizer, and let the 

 beds stand for ten or twelve years. "A few years of 

 this culture," said he, "will check their disposition to 



