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above other fruits ; for some years past, seeing the way in which other fruits 

 were being improved, I asked myself the question why not the strawberry? 

 and on making enquiry as to the parentage of some of the new ones, I was 

 nearly always met with the answer : ' A chance seedling just found growing,' 

 or ' I found it in a fence corner,' or on a ' stone heap.' Not very often could 



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the introducer tell its parentage, and so I thought it strange that some one had 

 not tried to improve it on some systematic principle, and so I have been trying 

 for a few years to do so. I have a few very fine seedlings, I enclose one I have 

 named ' Delia K '' it is a seedling of Sharpless. The picture is the exact size of 

 the berry and bunch." 



