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INDEX 



Varieties — continued. 



Crimson Cone, culture of, 16. 



describing, 175. 

 Downer's Prolific, origin of, 131. 

 Eariy Hudson, introduction of, 



7. 

 European, sweeter than Ameri- 

 can, 183. 

 everbearing, eariy failures with, 



144. 

 fall bearing, 147. 

 Fressant, first cultivated variety, 



113. 

 grown, 1800-1838, 19. 



1838-1854, 31. 

 Hovey, descendants of, 129, 189. 

 introduction of, 23. 

 "mammoth" berries of, 165. 

 origin of, 21. 

 parentage of, 128. 

 unsatisfactory results with, 25. 

 Jucunda, as grown at Pitts- 

 burgh, 1860, 47. 

 Keens' Seedling, origin and de- 

 scription of, 123. 

 Large Eariy Scariet, 5. 



commercial culture of, 1800- 

 1875, 126. 

 methods of introducing, 219. 

 naming and testing new, 220. 

 of known parentage, 189. 

 of F. virginiana grown com- 

 mercially, 126. 

 Old Pine, origin of, 116. 



description of, 119. 

 Pan-American, origin of, 144. 

 prices paid for new, 218. 

 Red Wood, culture near Boston, 



about 1820, 14. 

 running out of, 226. 

 score card for, 178. 

 Sharpless, competitor of the Wil- 

 son, 41. 



Varieties — continued. 

 Sharpless — continued, 

 descendants of, 130. 

 parentage of, 130. 

 the four-stem, 189. 

 Wilson, competitors of, 40. 

 descendants of, 130, 190. 

 good points of, 39. 

 long popularity of, 36. 

 objections to, 38. 

 origin of, 35. 

 parentage of, 130. 

 Variety, desirable characters in a, 

 157. 

 tests, value of, 224. 

 what is a distinct, 222. 

 Ventilator cars, introduction of, 54. 

 Vilmorin, P. de, quoted, on origin 



of the Pine, 118. 

 Virginia, history of culture in, 67. 



wild strawberries in, 2. 

 Virginian strawberry, commercial 

 culture of, 125. 



Warder, J. A., quoted, on pollina- 

 tion, 99. 

 White-fruited form of F. vesca, 153. 



varieties, 170. 

 Wild strawberries, not sweeter than 

 cultivated, 183. 

 distribution of, 147. 

 of New England, 2. 

 of Virginia, 2. 

 Wilson, James, originator of the 



Wilson, 35. 

 Woburn Fruit Experiment Farm, 

 quoted, on variety tests, 225. 



Yields, about 1823, 17. 

 1840, 30. 



heavy, about 1867, 48. 

 in New Jersey, 1865-1870, 49. 

 John Knox, Pittsburgh, 1860, 47. 



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