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plant had made sixteen runner plants, all of which had 

 either ripe or green fruit or blossoms on them. I did some 

 roguing for several years to eliminate those that were not 

 fall-bearing, for occasionally one would make runners 

 freely and not fruit. These were destroyed with all their 

 runners. I do not think one plant has failed to fruit for 

 the last three years. The Pan-American is undoubtedly 

 a sport by bud variation from the Bismarck." ^ This 

 surmise as to its origin is not capable of proof. If true, 

 it is the only authentic instance on record of bud sporting 

 in the strawberry. It is more probable that the Pan- 

 American was a seedling that had become mixed with the 

 plants of Bismarck ; possibly it is a seedling of that variety, 

 which it resembles in 

 some respects. There 

 were no Alpine, French 

 or other everbearing 

 varieties growing on his 

 grounds at that time. 



The Pan-American — 

 so-called because it was 

 first exhibited at the 

 Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion, Buffalo, New 

 York, in 1901, was in- 

 troduced in 1902, and 



received immediate recognition. The berries proved to 

 be rather small, unattractive in color, and mediocre in 

 quality, but the plants possessed the everbearing habit to 

 a marked degree. It made few runners, sometimes none, 

 so that it was necessary to propagate it by division. 

 This made the price of plants high. When the attempt 

 1 Rept. Iowa Hort. Soc, 1910, p. 274. 



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Fig. 13. 



— Pan-American, the first North 

 American everbearer. 



