CONTENTS 



XI 



PAGES 



Shape, calyx, color 167-171 



Seeds, shipping value 171-172 



Flavor, quality 172-175 



Describing and scoring varieties .... 175-181 



Form for describing varieties .... 176178 



Score cards 178-181 



Food value 181-187 



Chemical analyses 181-183 



Are wild strawberries sweeter than cultivated 



sorts 183-184 



Supposed medicinal value .... 184-187 



CHAPTER VI 



BREEDING 188-227 



The four stem-varieties 189-192 



Descendants of Hovey 189-190 



Descendants of Wilson 190 



Descendants of Sharpless .... 190-191 



Descendants of Crescent 191-192 



Breeding for a specific purpose .... 192-201 



Changing ideals 192-193 



Breeding for one thing at a time . . . 193-195 



Selecting the parents 195-196 



Botanical relationships and morphology . . 196-198 



When fruit buds are formed .... 198-200 



Abnormal structural forms .... 200-201 



Breeding methods 201-210 



Methods of the early breeders .... 201-203 



Hand-crossing 203-207 



Sowing the seed 207-208 



Fruiting the seedlings 208-210 



Bud variation 210-215 



Variation caused by environment . . . 210-211 



Reported instances of bud variation . . 211-212 



"Pedigree" plants 212-214 



Strawberry breeders . . . . . . 215-220 



Achievements of Boyden, Downer, Durand . 215-216 



List of breeders, 1854-1900 .... 216-217 



Breeders since 1900 . . 217-218 



