48 SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 
Longworth, Esq., for a pistillate strawberry which 
should prove, on a four years’ trial, to surpass all other 
known varieties in size, flavor, and productiveness. 
M’AVOY’S SUPERIOR. 
Fig. 1, Fie. 2, 
The committee concluding that this fulfilled the condi- 
tions, reported in its favor, and the report was adopted 
by the Society. In September, 1851, we obtained two 
plants, and in so far as our observation of it has ex- 
tended in our own and several other gardens, in different 
portions of our country, it is superior, in the average 
size and productiveness, to any other variety we have 
seen; and while it is good, and when properly ripened 
of high flavor and delicious, yet we do not think it 
equals, much less surpasses, Burr’s New Pine in flavor. 
It is pistillate, hardy, vigorous, dark serrated leaf, long 
