180 THE STRAWBERRY IN NORTH AMERICA 



The Reasoner score card also had a "supplemental 

 score" in which length of nodes, earliness of bloom, 

 earliness of ripening, duration of picking season and 

 holding size of berries to end of season each counted ten 

 points. 



In 1903 A. T. Goldsborough, a strawberry breeder of 

 Washington, D. C., used the following score card on his 

 seedlings : 



GOLDSBOROUGH SCORE CARD 



Productiveness .... 8 Runner habits .... 8 



Size 8 Disease resistance ... 6 



Shape 6 Rootage 3 



Color 5 Vigor 5 



Duration of picking . . 5 Foliage 4 



Sweetness 5 Crowning 3 



Firmness 4 Leaf stems 3 



Absence of rot .... 4 Fruit stalks 3 



Keeping quality .... 4 Blossoms 3 



Color of flesh .... 3 Size _2 



Calyx, or cap .... 3 Total for plant ... 40 



Flavor 3 



Fragrance 2 



Total for fruit ... 60 



There is bound to be wide divergence of views as to the 

 relative importance of different characters. It is not prac- 

 ticable to subject varieties or seedlings to the same score 

 card in all sections. Under some conditions a certain 

 character may be of prime importance, under others quite 

 incidental ; drought resistance, for example, would be ac- 

 corded more weight in western Nebraska than in west- 

 ern Washington. The following score cards are suggested 

 for average conditions; they should be modified to fit 

 local conditions. It is more satisfactory to score fruit 

 and plant separately. 



