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astonishing. A soldier who saw a basket of 

 them thought they were tomatoes. The Wil- 

 sons of course bore the largest number, and the 

 berries also were very large, but many of the 

 other named varieties were simply monstrous, 

 and they all seemed nearly equal in this instance 

 in vigor and productiveness, except the Jucun- 

 das, and though these bore as large berries as 

 any, the vines were rather feeble and inclined 

 to die out. For large, showy berries, few, if any, 

 surpass the Jucundas, and with high culture on 

 a heavy soil, and kept rigorously in hills, they 

 will produce fruit that will stop a man running 

 for a train, should it meet his eye. At a fash- 

 ionable Broadway fruit store, they would bring 

 almost any price asked, but they would be like 

 many of their wealthy purchasers, rather insipid 

 and hollow. As grown in my grounds their 

 flavor is not to be mentioned in the same week 

 with the Russell and Triomphe. Still they are 



