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find any variety that will not be very good if it is thoroughly 

 ripened on the plants. A friend came to me this summer from 

 Amherst, and in tasting the different strawberries as he went 

 across the bed, he asked me the different varieties as he came to 

 them. He came to a kind which has always been considered one 

 of the poorest quality berries we have, but it happened that at 

 this time there were a good many very ripe berries on it and he 

 pronounced it the best of the whole lot, and when I told him 

 it was Glen Mary he seemed very much surprised because he 

 said it had always been a very poor quality berry with him. 

 I said, "Let it ripen thoroughly, the green tip becoming a good 

 dark red, and there is just as good quality in that as in Mar- 

 shall or Senator Dunlap or any of those varieties which we all 

 consider very high quality." So for the home market grow a 

 berry that is bright, that will not turn black, and a berry that 

 has not a white tip. For a market a long distance off you have 

 got to take into consideration that you must have a berry that 

 will stand up. I think that no kinds have proved better for 

 that purpose than the Glen Mary and Sample, for New Eng- 

 land. I know in Maine and parts of New Hampshire the War- 

 field is a very good berry for ordinary purposes. With us it 

 is apt to run small after the first picking, and I would not 

 recommend it as a general thing. Of course you often- 

 times find localities where one variety will do well and another 

 will not, but I think Glen Mary has done very well all over the 

 country, and should be planted very extensively, particularly 

 for a berry to ship. For the home garden I would recommend 

 Abington, Meade, Bubach, Parson's Beauty, Senator Dunlap, 

 Barrymore and Minute Man. The Parson's Beauty is a very 

 good quality berry wdth us, though it is apt to be rather light 

 colored. Down on Cape Cod they grow the Marshall. They 

 grow it very well in that sandy soil and often get it into the 

 market before the other varieties come around us, and then it 

 sells for as high as fifty cents a quart. So that is their one 

 berry that they make money out of. While they do not grow 

 big crops they get very good prices. I know a man in Marsh- 

 field who has a great many of them, and last season his Mar- 

 shalls averaged him 22 cents a quart, where ordinary berries 

 I think last year averaged less than eight cents. The variety 

 is largely a matter of the market you are trying for. If you 



