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Cardinal, was paid one thousand dollars for it by the 

 Templin Company in 1905; yet this variety has not 

 gained a foothold. It was reported that Jesse K. Sharp- 

 less made about two thousand dollars on his seedling, 

 although he lost control of the stock before its merits were 

 fully known. 



Probably the largest price paid for a new variety in 

 recent years was to Louis Hubach, of Judsonia, Arkansas, 

 for the Hubach and Hathaway, more commonly called the 

 "H. and H." It was sold in 1906 for fifteen hundred 

 dollars; this price, however, included 150,000 plants. 

 These are exceptional rewards. Ordinarily, a promising 

 seedling, perhaps the sole survivor of many thousands of 

 seedlings and years of effort, sells for one hundred dollars 

 or less. The chance that it will become a standard sort 

 among the numerous candidates for favor is so remote that 

 nurserymen are not justified in paying more. In 1894 

 Matthew Crawford purchased from the originator that 

 sterling variety, the William Belt, for one hundred dollars. 

 Occasionally a strawberry breeder tries to collect a royalty 

 from all nurserymen who propagate his variety. This 

 cannot be done ; an originator can trade-mark a certain 

 name, but he cannot copyright, trade-mark or patent 

 anything that is not manufactured by man, but is pro- 

 duced by nature, as in the propagation of a variety. 



Methods of introducing varieties. — The originator should 

 be careful to whom he sends seedlings for preliminary 

 tests ; many breeders have been defrauded by careless or 

 unscrupulous dealers. Beder Wood, of Moline, Illinois, 

 gave a few plants of his famous seedling to George Ash- 

 ford, of Davenport, Iowa, for trial. This man propagated 

 it and a neighbor of his, John Racster, introduced it as the 

 Racster a year before Beder Wood introduced it himself. 



