New Strawberries. 



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Empress Eugenie. 



Due de Afalaio^ (Gloede). — This is one of the most satisfactory 

 French varieties, for an amateur's strawberry, that I have fruited. Ber- 

 ries enormous, sometimes eleven to the pound. Form variable, cocks- 

 combed. Color dull red. Seeds small, light colored, and prominent. 

 Flesh veiy juicy, with a sort of mulbeny flavor. Vigorous, moderately 

 productive, and as hardy as any foreign kind. Said to be a cross of 

 a Chili and the British Qiieen. 



Like the Admiral Dundas, the Due de Malakoff' bears far better 

 when the plants are two years old, and must not be judged from the 

 first year's crop. I condemned it too hastily in this Journal after only 

 one year's trial. 



Due DE Malakoff. 



