218 THE STRAWBERRY IN NORTH AMERICA 



William Parmalee, New Haven, Connecticut, Crescent (1876). 

 Oscar F. Felton, Mechanicsburg, New Jersey, Dollar (1894). 

 E. T. Ingram, Westchester, Pennsylvania. Brandywine (1895). 

 J. A. Ingram, E. Bradford, Pennsylvania, Glen Mary (1896). 



D. A. Thompson, Mt. Olive, North Carolina, Thompson (1895). 

 Marshall Ewell, Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, Marshall (1893). 

 J. G. Bubach, Princeton, Illinois, Bubach (1890). 



George Michel, Judsonia, Arkansas, Michel (1889). 



The rewards of strawberry breeding. It is easy to 

 raise seedlings, but only very few of them are worth keep- 

 ing. Hardly one seedling in ten thousand proves supe- 

 rior ; most of them revert and are distinctly inferior to the 

 parents. Successful strawberry breeding requires an 

 infinite amount of patience, as well as skill. In recent 

 years the laws of heredity have become better known and 

 the results are somewhat more predictable. Some men 

 raise hundreds of thousands of seedlings without producing 

 one that they consider worthy of introduction; others 

 pick up valuable sorts by the roadside. Those noted 

 authorities on strawberry culture, A. S. Fuller and 



E. P. Roe, did not produce a single variety that stood 

 the test, although they labored faithfully. 



The pecuniary reward in strawberry breeding is not 

 large. Fifty years ago a valuable new variety could be 

 sold for a good price. C. M. Hovey realized a large sum 

 from the sale of plants of his seedling, but he enjoyed 

 the advantages of exclusive propagation and exceptional 

 facilities for advertising. Nicholas Longworth paid three 

 hundred dollars for McAvoy's Superior, which was con- 

 sidered a big price at that time. The "Tribune Straw- 

 berries," three varieties originated by A. S. Fuller, none 

 of which became prominent, captured a prize of three 

 thousand dollars offered by the New York Tribune 

 Company in 1872. George J. Streator, originator of the 



