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<ft PREFACE 



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<\J THIS book completes a survey of the strawberry as 



^3 grown in North America. Modern cultural methods 

 are presented in a companion volume, "Strawberry- 

 O Growing," and all of the more than 1800 North Ameri- 

 can varieties are described in Technical Bulletin 11, 

 & Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, Blacksburg, 

 en Virginia, "North American Varieties of the Strawberry." 

 u-j The present volume deals mainly with the origin and his- 

 ^ tory of the North American type one of the most 

 ^ interesting chapters in our pomology. 



The assistance of many pomologists and cultivators 



is gratefully acknowledged, more especially of Matthew 



C Crawford, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A number of the illus- 



*} trations are borrowed, for which acknowledgment is 



M made in the List of Illustrations. 



Ai S. W. FLETCHER. 



V STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, 

 *J May 3, 1917. 



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