SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 57 
JENNEY’S SEEDLING. 
THIS originated in New Bedford, 
about the year 1845: is of good size, 
high flavor; and has been highly 
recommended by the Massachusetts 
and other Horticultural Societies. 
We have successfully cultivated it 
for four or five years, and think its 
advantages are, its good fair size, 
bright handsome color and form, — seyxgys sexpune. 
sprightly rich flavor, lateness of season in bearing, and 
sound flesh, fitting it for a first-rate market fruit, or for 
preserving; its defects are, its not being the largest 
size and only amedium bearer. The plant is vigorous, 
and blossoms pistillate. 
LARGE EARLY SCARLET. 
This has long been the standard staminate. It 
bears almost everywhere a tolerable crop with fair 
treatment. It is early, and, as we see from Mr. Pea- 
body’s article in the Appendix, under his treatment 
has become a perpetual bearer. It is of medium size, 
handsome oval form, good—rather acid—flayor, and 
bears carriage to market tolerably well. 
Its good qualities are its uniform, although not large 
productiveness, early season and good flavor; its de- 
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