54 SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 
chance, it has done well. Many will, doubtless, ’dis- 
card “ Longworth’s Prolific,” who have only tried 
spurious kinds. | 
Our limited experience will not enable us to speak 
so decidedly as some of those we have quoted, yet we 
can say we are much pleased with it, and hope it will 
equal the high expectations excited; so far, it seems to 
excel any hermaphrodite of our acquaintance in size 
and productiveness, and is of good flavor. The 
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society had it on exhibi- 
tion from the garden of Caleb Cope, Esq., in 1858, and 
speak of it as “very large, roundish obovate, brilliant 
crimson ; seed of the same color, sometimes yellowish, 
set in rather deep indentations, with rounded intervals; 
flesh red, flavor fine, quality ‘very good,’ a variety of 
ereat excellence, perfect in its sexual organization, 
and remarkably productive, a rare circumstance with 
staminate varieties of large size.” The plant is very 
vigorous and hardy; large broad leaf, long foot-stalks, 
setting the fruit well up in large full trusses, product- 
ive and sure bearer; ripens at the medium season, 
and only loses its fine color when over-ripe. We 
have seen the fruit from four to five inches in cireum- 
ference. 
