VARIETIES OF STRAWBERRIES 



STRAWBERRY growers who have not 

 done so, will soon have to make a se- 

 lection of the varieties which they will grow 

 in 1905. Some interesting information re- 

 specting varieties tested iix 1904 is contained 

 in Bulletin 154 of the Ohio Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, a copy of which has 

 just reached The Horticulturist. One hun- 

 dred and fifty varieties were tried with vary- 

 ing results. Undoubtedly there are many, 

 even among those which failed to give 

 satisfactory results, that upon other soils or 

 under different conditions would prove 

 valuable, 



UXSATISFACTORV N'ARIETIES. 



\'arieties which did not produce satisfac- 

 torily were : Arizona, Arnot, Auto, Bush 

 Cluster, Bryan. Beder Wood, Cameron, 

 Clyde, Corsican, Darling, Double Cropper, 

 Emperor, Empress, Early Giant, G. X. M. 

 Nos. I, 2 and 3, G. X. E. X'^os. 3 and 4, 

 Hunn, Lady Jane, Livingstone, Mammoth, 

 Margaret, ^Marshall, ^lartin X^o. i, ]\Iay- 

 flower, McKinley. Michel. Monitor, Xina, 

 Palmer's Very Early, I^arker Earle, Patrick, 

 Rapp, W., Riehl Xo. 3, Rough Rider, Suc- 

 cess, Sunrise, Young's Early Sunrise, 

 Thompson's X'^os. 102, 201, 203, 500, 502, 

 Thompson's Earliest, Twilight, Victor, Yant. 



SATISFACTORY VARIETIES. 



The most satisfactory early varieties 

 were Excelsior, Fairfield, Gill and IVIay- 

 flower. The latter ran very small after the 

 first two pickings. The more prominent 

 early varieties were Haverland, Louis Hu- 

 bach, Lyon, Alanokin, Senator Dunlap, 

 Texas and Warfield. 



I have tested a great many varieties of 

 strawberries and my main crop consists of 

 Crescent and \Mlliams. The Crescent :'s 

 the most profitable strawberry among up- 

 wards of 100 varieties tested. It will pay 

 better at five or six cents a box than many 

 ■of the others would do at 25 cents. — (G. C. 

 ■Caston. Craighurst. Out. 



The best mid-season varieties included 

 Bubach, Gibson, Lloyd, Marie, Parson's 

 Beauty, Pocomoke, Sample, Shenandoah, 

 Sutherland and Uncle Jim. 



LATE VARIETIES. 



The most satisfactory late varieties were 

 Cardinal, Commonwealth, Latest. Xettie 

 and Robbie. Those varieties noted for 

 their unusually good quality were Carlisle 

 Seedling, Chellie, E. H. Ekey, Kittie Rice, 

 Luxury, Xick Ohmer, Pennell, Senator 

 Dunlap and Wm. Belt. The most prolific 

 varieties were Bubach, Bismarck, Fairfield, 

 Fisher (Prof.), Fisher (Mrs. Prof.), Gill, 

 Glen Mary, Haverland, Highland Seedling, 

 Howard, Kansas, Louis Hubach, Lucas, 

 Lyon, ^farie, ^linute Man, X'^ew Globe, 

 Parson's Beauty, Pocomoke, Rochester 

 Seedling, Sample, Senator Dunlap, Shenan- 

 doah, Shepard, Sunshine, Sutherland, 

 Thompson's X'o. 124, Lncle Jim and War- 

 field. 



OTHER GOOD VARIETIES. 



X'arieties remarkable for large 'size and 

 unusual beauty included Chellie, E. H. 

 Ekey, Latest, X^^ettie^ Sample and Spring- 

 dale Beauty. (The latter failed to hold up 

 in size, however.) Varieties standing pro- 

 minently as leaders for market were Bu- 

 bach, Cardinal, Fairfield, Gill, Haverland, 

 Highland Seedling, Lyon, Parson's Beauty, 

 Pocomoke. Sample, Senator Dunlap, Latest, 

 X^ettie, Robbie and Uncle Jim. A quar- 

 tette of varieties excellent for home use : 

 Carlisle Seedling, Kittie Rice, Pennell and 

 Senator Dunlap. 



" I seldom thin my pears, or fruit of any 

 kind, as labor is too expensive. I tried it 

 once with some of my Bartletts and found 

 it paid, as the fruit was larger and there 

 was no loss through the branches breaking 

 down from over bearing. Sometimes my 

 branches break in this way, but not often." 

 — (E. C. Beman. X'ewcastle, Out. 



