WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



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shortened back. It requires a deep, warm soil, well supplied with 

 lime and potash, when it succeeds admirably in all sections. 



Size, medium ; /arm, roundish oblong, sometimes angular ; the 

 form varies, and also size, as grown on top or bottom limbs, and in 

 good or poor soil ; color, red, streaked and dotted with grayish 

 yellow ; stem, medium, projecting about even with the surface ; 

 cavity, narrow ; calyx, open, erect, slightly recurved ; basin, deep, 

 round, smooth ; flesh, tender, subacid, best ; core, small ; seeds, ovate 

 pyriform. 



AUTUMN STRAWBERRY. 



Late Strawberry. 



Strawberry. 



American : originated, Western New York. Size, medium, or 

 rather below ; form, roundish ; color, light and dark red, streaked, 

 and, in the sun, the dark red prevailing, and with a bloom like a 

 plum ; stem, slender, medium length ; cavity, open, regular ; ca 

 lyx small, nearly closed ; basin, shallow, slightly ribbed ; jllesh, 



