112 Catalogue of Varieties. 



oval or round, beautiful shining vermilion red ; flesh white, 

 with rosy veins ; sweet and perfumed. With me, a very splendid 

 grower in light soil. 



PRESIDENT (Green). Large or very large, beautiful round form, 

 oval or lobed, bright red; seeds prominent; interior flesh col- 

 ored ; juicy and sweet. Vigorous, productive, and forces well. 

 English. (?) 



PRESIDENT, OR PRESIDENT LINCOLN (Plattman). American. 

 New, and little known. 



PRESIDENT WILDER (De Jonghe). New, 1868. Figured in the 

 foreign catalogues for 1868-9, and described as large, oval or 

 conical, with a long and very distinct neck; varnished crimson 

 red; seeds yellow and prominent; flesh firm, red, veined with 

 rose, sweet, and perfumed. Vines dwarf, hardy, very produc- 

 tive, and late. Said to surpass La Constante. The shape is 

 very different from that of the next variety. 



PRESIDENT WILDER (Wilder). A cross of La Constante and 

 Hovey's Seedling, and retaining the good qualities of both va- 

 rieties. Fruit large to very large, many specimens in 1868 and 

 1869 weighing an ounce each ; roundish, obtusely conical, 

 always uniform and regular; bright crimson scarlet; seeds yel- 

 low, and near the surface; flesh rosy white, firm, juicy, rich, 

 and exquisitely flavored with a faint, hardly perceptible, Haut- 

 bois taste. The plant is of dwarf, compact habit, with strong, 

 healthy leaves on stout foot-stalks; vigorous and productive. 

 One year old plants, not allowed to make runners, sometimes 

 send up four fruit-stalks. The foliage resembles that of the 

 Hovey more than that of La Constante, and in the nine years' 

 trial it has had, has never burned. The fruit borrows its shape, 

 and much of its beauty, from La Constante, and it is almost im- 

 possible to find a misshapen berry. My first plants were set in 

 only moderately good soil, September 21, 1868, and they gave 

 me a very good crop in 1869. It originated with M. P. Wilder, 

 of Dorchester, Mass., in 1861, and was selected as the best re- 

 sult he has obtained from many thousand seedlings in thirty 

 years' continual experimenting, and is the most promising new 

 strawberry now before the public. Fig. in Tilton's Jour, of 

 Hort. 1869, p. i. 



PRIMATE (Prince). Conical, crimson, moderate flavor, showy 

 market berry. A good setter, and very productive. 



PRIMORDIAN (Prince). Large, conical, deep scarlet. Pistillate. 



* PRINCE ALBERT. 



