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some other quality which will presently be 

 supplied. 



I have also a white strawberry, grown from 

 a variety that I grew in my childhood back in 

 Massachusetts, and which was said to have come 

 from Virginia. 



By hybridizing this species a few promising 

 white strawberries have been produced with new 

 and delicious flavors. Second generation seed- 

 lings in great numbers are being raised, and 

 interesting results are sure to be attained in the 

 near future. 



This strawberry stock, like my stock of plums 

 and some other fruits, now consists of complex 

 hybrids from which almost anything may be 

 expected. At least it is certain that new com- 

 binations of qualities, within the extreme range 

 of strawberry variation, will appear among the 

 seedlings of these conglomerate yet carefully 

 nurtured and selected stocks. 



Summarizing my work on this fruit, I would 

 say that selections have been made primarily for 

 flavor rather than for size and color. I thought 

 that a good home strawberry that is tender, 

 sweet, and of fair size rather than of exaggerated 

 proportions, combining these qualities with the 

 exquisite flavor of some of the wild berries, 

 would be a distinct acquisition. 



