THE 



VOL. VL] 



AUGUST, 1883. 



[No. 8. 



JAMES VICK STHAWBEKRT. 



So much has been said concerning 

 tlie wonderful productiveness of this 

 new variety that we herewith present 

 our readers with a colored illustration, 

 which is said to be a very truthful 

 representation, and submit for their 

 ctonsideration such information regard- 

 ing it as we have been able to gather. 

 Our own plantation of it is quite too 

 young to be any test of its merits. 

 That the plants thus far are very healthy 

 and vigorous, is about all that can be 

 said. 



The writer received a very urgent 

 invitation fi-om Mr. Green to visit his 

 grounds, where, he says, it iias proved 

 to be the most productive of all the 

 varieties that he has in cultivation. It 

 began to ripen with him on the 25th of 

 June, but the fruit was all suffered to 

 remain on the vines, and on the eleventh 

 of July he wrote that the fruit still 

 liangs on the vines in condition to be 

 (^aten, and that he is sure it will remain 

 'HI the vines longer without loss than 

 any other variety. This certainly is 

 a very important quality, enabling the 

 grower to wait a few days longer than 

 he can with other varieties, if there 

 should be an over supply in the mai'ket, 

 before gathering and shipping hia fiiiit. 



As to quality, Mr. Green states that 

 last year he thought the Manchester 

 superior to the James Vick, but that 

 this year the quality of the latter is far 

 ahead of that of the Manchester. Yet 

 he does not claim the highest quality 

 for either of these sorts. 



Mr. Green's old bed of this variety 

 was dug over for plants, yet he says 

 that it produced as fine and nearly as 

 many berries as his specimen bed, and 

 that he counted one hundred and two 

 hundred blossoms on single plants. 



Mr. J. T. Lovett says that the Vick 

 has surpassed his expectations, and that 

 it is of great value for market purposes. 



Strawberry growers have been long 

 looking for a variety that will excel the 

 Wilson as a market berry, but hitherto 

 none have been able to supplant it for 

 that purpose. This new aspirant for 

 fame as a market berry must be grown 

 for many yeai-s and in many localities 

 before its ability to rival, not to say 

 supi)lant, the Wilson can be affirmed. 

 Meanwhile growers for market would, 

 do well to give the James Vick a trial, 

 and report their opinion of it through 

 the columns of the Canadian Horticul- 

 turist. 



In the Fnut Recorder for July we 



