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fail to be sold, if offered in our markets, on account of their 

 color. These popular notions are due of course to igno- 

 rance of the best varieties of fruits, and will be eradicated 

 when people become more~Kimiliar with choice kinds. 



Productiveness and hardiness- of the vine, with bright 

 color and solidity of the fruit, seern now all that is re- 

 quired in a market berry, and even more than is required, 

 for the Wilson's Albany has built up and maintains a 

 wonderful reputation in spite of its poor color. 



It is a very firm berry, as far removed in this respect 

 as possible from many kinds, notable among which is 

 the Brooklyn Scarlet a delicious variety, but so tender 

 that a single layer of berries set away on a plate over 

 night will lose their shape by morning. La Constante 

 is remarkable for its firmness, and Underwood's Seed- 

 ling, raised from La Constante, is quite wonderful for 

 its firmness and keeping qualities, the La Constante type 

 being a very persistent one, as regards not only solidity, 

 but shape and flavor also. Its beautiful shape reappears, 

 a little modified, in the President Wilder. 



One word of advice to the amateur may not be out 

 of place- here, viz. : if he should obtain a seedling worth 

 naming, let him be sure the name he gives it has not been 

 already appropriated to some other strawberry. Neglect 

 of this precaution is already leading to confusion. We 

 have two Elizas, Rivers's and Myatts's ; two Eclipses, 



Prince's and Reeves's ; two Emilys ; two Charles Down- 

 ing's, Downer's and De Jonghe's ; two President Wil- 

 cler's, De Jonghe's and Wilder's ; two Riflemen, one 

 raised by Roden and the other by Ingram ; two Paulines, 



one a seedling of Prince's and the other a seedling of 

 Dr. Nicaise ; two Globes, Myatts's and. De Jonghe's ; 

 two- Cornucopia's, Prince's and Nicholson's ; and so on to 

 the end of the chapter. There are some other names too 

 near alike ; as the Rubis of Dr. Nicaise, and Nicholson's 

 Ruby ; Napoleon and Napoleon III. ; to say nothing of 



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