viii CONTENTS 



PAOE8 



Varieties 31-32 



Stimulating effect of the pollination discussion . 32-34 



CHAPTER II 



THE RISE OP COMMERCIAL STRAWBERRY-GROWING . 35-75 



The sway of the Wilson 35-^13 



Origin 34-36 



Immediate popularity 36-39 



Good points and objectionable features . . 39-40 



Competitors Crescent and Sharpless . . 4041 



Boom days 42-43 



Contrasting methods of culture .... 43-50 



Field culture at Cincinnati .... 43-45 



Market garden culture at Pittsburgh . . 45-48 



Yields and prices about 1865 .... 48-49 



Special cultural methods 49-50 



Forcing in hot-beds and cold-frames . . 49-50 



Strawberry mounds 50 



Improvement in transportation facilities . . . 50-60 



Extension of railroads 50-52 



Competition from the South .... 52-54 



Ventilator cars and fruit-growers' express . 5455 



Introduction of refrigerator cars . . . 55-60 



Early experiments of Parker Earle . . 55-58 



The first pre-cooling plant .... 58 



Beginning of the modern re-icing system . 58-60 



Early history of certain of the older strawberry districts 60-75 



New Jersey 60-62 



Delaware-Maryland peninsula .... 62-63 



Oswego County, New York .... 63-64 



Michigan 64-65 



Southern Illinois 65-66 



Virginia 67-69 



Charleston, South Carolina .... 69-70 



Florida . ' 70-72 



North Carolina 72-73 



Gulf States and lower Mississippi Valley . . 73-74 



Pacific Coast 74-75 



Canada 75 



