52 SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 
measuring nearly four inches in circumference, and 
have measured single specimens from our own garden 
full four and a quarter inches, and when thus well 
grown, and on exhibition, it will bear off the first 
prize from Hovey’s Seedling, and all other varieties; 
yet it is, under ordinary cultivation, nearer the size of 
three inches in circumference. It is a great favorite 
of families of exquisite taste, either for the hand or for 
the table, and we have proved it to be the earliest of 
sixty varieties in the same garden to ripen its fruit, 
and one of the latest to cease bearing; and occasional 
plants have produced a small second crop in the 
autumn, while standing without watering in the open 
garden. The fruit is large, round, conical and even; 
color, pale red; seeds very slightly sunk; flesh, whit- 
ish-pink, sweet, and too tender for a market fruit; 
quite productive, and berries perfect; the foliage is 
large, and the plant is vigorous and hardy. It is 
indispensable for private gardens. Pistillate. 
LONGWORTH’S PROLIFIC. 
The two remaining plants of the first six are stami- 
nate, or hermaphrodite. This variety originated in 
Cincinnati at the same time with McAvoy’s Superior. 
Mr. Longworth furnished the seed for both plants to 
two cultivators, McAvoy and Schnecke, the former of 
whom produced the Superior, and the latter this 
