$6 SUCCESS WITH SMALL FRUITS. 



ties of strawberries, the latest products of horticultural skill, 

 speedily indicate in the rough-and-tumble of ordinary cul- 

 ture whether they have derived their life from the hardy F. 

 Virginiana or the tender and fastidious F. Chilensis. The 

 Monarch of the West and the Jucunda are the patricians 

 of the garden, and on the heavy portions of my land at 

 Cornwall I can scarcely say to which I give the preference. 

 But the Monarch is Anglo-Saxon and the Jucunda is of a 

 Latin race ; or to drop metaphor, the former comes of a 

 species that can adapt itself to conditions extremely varied, 

 and even very unfavorable, and the latter cannot. 



