2o8 Small Fruits in Central Massachusetts in 1869. 



Downer and yenny Lind still hold dieir reputation, as good, old, 

 tried varieties ; the Downer in particular pleases all who have tried it. 



Ida has done well, and is very much liked, as it is a very strong 

 grower and enormously productive. Fruit stands well up from the 

 ground, of a uniform medium size, quite firm, and the color a brilliant 

 scarlet ; flavor very good, 



French's Seedling commenced ripening early, and produced a large 

 crop of very fine-flavored, good-sized, showy berries, firm enough for 

 marketing when kept thin or in hills. 



Wilson's Albany still holds the first place as a market berry, as it is 

 a sure bearer every year, and very productive ; a great favorite of the 

 producer, but not so much so with the consumer. Some of our culti- 

 vators are learning that a larger, sweeter berry will command enough 

 higher prices to warrant an increase in their cultivation. The past 

 season, when our market was glutted with the Wilson, the Charles 

 Downing, Lady of the Lake, Jucunda, &c,, sold readily at fifty per 

 cent, higher rates. 



Triomphe de Ga?td has disappointed us again this year, producing 

 a very small crop only, and not more than half its usual size : save in 

 a few gardens, this variety is rapidly losing favor, and most of the 

 strawberry cultivators have discarded it altogether. 



Agriculturist has done a little better than the above, and with some 

 has produced a very fine crop of large, showy fruit ; it has proved 

 such an irregular bearer the past thi-ee years tliat only a few tiy to 

 cultivate it. 



yucunda has given us the best of satisfaction ; otir soil is similar to 

 that of Mr. Knox, of Pittsbvn-g, and the product, though not quite equal 

 to his, has been surprising : commencing to ripen, as it does, after the 

 main crop of other kinds has been gathered, and bearing a heavy crop 

 of large, fine-shaped, attractive berries, it fills a space in the straw- 

 berry season which fruit-growers have long desired to see occupied. 



Lady of the Lake is a good grower, the berry large, rather uneven 

 in shape, color dark red, flesh firm, sweet, and juicy, — though only ordi- 

 nary in flavor, — and wonderfully productive. It is becoming a great 

 favorite among marketmcn, as it has given better satisfaction to the 



