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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



culture, what each consider the best 

 strawberr}^ at the yearly meeting in 



Michigan : — ^ 



B. M. Hance — "The Charles Downing is tPi 

 best." 



F. R. Harding—" The Wilson is the best." 

 U. B. Webster— " The Cr£^r.;«ns the best." 

 E. H. Scott— "The Mount Vernon is the 

 best.' 



Mr. Cook—" The Triumph is the best." 

 Thos. Wild— "The Alpha is the best." 

 W. A. Brown— "The Crescent is one of the 

 worst for eating or market." 



T. T.Lyon — " I consider the Crescent one of 

 the best early sorts for growing." 



W. A. Smith—" The Wilson and the Sharp- 

 less are the best for quality and profit." 

 S. G. Antisdale — " Wilson.''^ 



C. W. Garfield— "C(7w/«^jr is the best quality 

 for me." 



C. A. Green—" For market— /i?wzV, Bu- 

 [nch tt' Giesceni. For the home garden, Jessie, 

 Bubach, Wilson, ox /as. Vick." 



Matthew Crawford— "For market — Bubach, 

 Mount Vernon, Cornelia. For home use — 

 May king, Jessie , Cornelia.'" 



Just the old saying. Many men of 



many minds. 



The strawberries for home use to 

 lengthen the season, should be early, 

 medium and late, and in this locality 

 I find Jessie for early, Bubachs No. 

 5 for medium and Gaudy's Prize or 

 Eureka for late, are the best. These 

 are all large to very large, and are 

 also satisfactory for market, being of 

 the largest size and very productive. 



A first-class strawberry should not 

 contain over fifty berries to the quart. 

 The time has been when it would be 

 hard to find berries of that kind, but 

 now there are many reports of 

 instances of thirty, twenty, sixteen, 



and the lust surprise is one of eight 

 berries filUng a quart basket, grown 

 by a man of the name of Shaw. The 

 story is vouched for by reliable men, 

 as recorded in the OJtio Fanner of 

 Jtme 2gth, i88g. 



The second requisite is a very dark 

 color and free from white tips. Some 

 of the older varieties had this 

 objection, such as the " Sharpless," 



Thirdly, size and color must be 

 accompanied by good quality such as 

 Jessie and Jewell possess. 



Another season's fruiting and test- 

 ing of seedling and new varieties 

 has passed. Some of them have 

 been very satisfactory, although the 

 severe frost of the 22nd and 28th of 

 May injured all more or less. 



Loudon's seedlings, the originator 

 of the Jessie, are worthy of special 

 mention ; large, beautiful in color and 

 productive, his No. 15, 11, 21, 22, 33 

 and 60 are of the very largest size 

 of fair quality and productive. I am 

 of the opinion when they are offered 

 for sale they will replace many now 

 in cultivation. 



Townsend's " Eureka " still main- 

 tains its popularity here as a market 

 and home berry. We are having 

 ver}' fair pickings from it yet, when 

 the old varieties are done. I am 

 favorably impressed with the Haver- 

 land and Gandy. 



LOCATION OF THE ORCHARD-ADVANTAGE OF A CER- 

 TAIN ELEVATION IN SECURING IMMUNITY 

 FROM FROST. 



SIR, — I was much interested in 

 your editorial and accompany- 

 ing reports concerning the frost in 



May last, as you can easily imagine 

 when I tell you I have an orchard of 

 twenty acres and that it had perfect 



