166 THE STRAWBERRY IN NORTH AMERICA 



over and between these irregularities. If this berry had 

 been of regular shape, it would have weighed over twelve 

 ounces, while the heaviest berry ever grown weighed but 

 about three ounces." 



Regular berries of exceptional size were grown in 1899 

 by A. T. Goldsborough of Washington, D. C. He sent 

 some berries to the Secretary of Agriculture, " the average 



weight of w^hich was 

 3.06 ounces. The 

 largest berry weighed 

 four ounces and was 

 10| inches in circum- 

 ference. It took but 

 six of them to fill a 

 quart basket." ^ On 

 June 5, 1904, the 

 same propagator sent 

 a specimen of his St. 

 Louis to G. B. Brack- 

 ett, pomologist of 

 the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, who reported, "It measured 3| 

 by 3U inches in diameter and weighed 4f ounces. Two 

 filled an ordinary glass. This beats all records in the size 

 of strawberries" (Fig. 17). 



This record was approached, if not bettered, by a speci- 

 men of the Mary grown by Henry Jerolamen, Hilton, New 

 Jersey, and exhibited at the Jamestown exhibition in 1908. 

 It was 4 J inches in diameter ; the weight was not given. 

 According to A. D. Webb, of Bowling Green, Kentucky : 

 "At a strawberry show held at Louisville, Kentucky, in 

 1899 under the auspices of the Kentucky Horticultural 

 1 Washington Evening Star, June 17, 1899. 



Fig 



17. — A "mammoth" berry ; it weighed 

 4| ounces. 



