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under unlike surroundings the same variety may change 

 both in plant and fruit-habits. Adaptation, therefore, 

 .should be determined before the extensive use of any varie- 

 ty in the commercial plantation. Information of value may 

 be available by a study of the kinds already doing well in 

 the immediate locality under apparently similar conditions, 

 yet a still more accurate test is the trial of a few plants be- 

 fore setting extensively. No variety has all the qualities 

 equally developed that make perfection. The test plat 

 should be a regular fixtuTe in the commercial Small-Fruit 

 jdantation and the newer, most promising kinds should be 

 tested in a small way and their local value determined. 



Time forbids a discussion of particular varieties of the 

 fruits referred to. interesting though it might be. Suffice it 

 to say that doubtless many kinds of value in New York 

 would not be so well adapted to Massachusetts and vice 

 versa. As a rule American varieties of fruits and not 

 foreign varieties are l)est adapted to American conditions 

 and varieties of western United States adapt themselves but 

 poorly to the conditions of the East. It is equally true that 

 varieties have their likes and dislikes in different parts of 

 the same state or county. The following lists, therefore, 

 are only suggestive, are incomplete and indicate but a few 

 of the varieties, standard and also newer kinds which in one 

 place or another have made good in New York: 

 STRAWBERRIES : 



Amanda Excelsior Mascot 



Barrymore Gandy Michel 



BederAvood Glen Mary Ozark 



Belt Golden Gate Prolific 



Brandywine Good Luck Rough Rider 



Chesapeake Indiana Sample 



Columbia Monroe Stevens 



Dunlap Marshall . Williams 



FALL BEARING KINDS : 



Americus Progressive 



Francis Superb 



