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put out in July and August also threw out run- 

 ners, and by October filled the rows close up 

 with plants. If I had not been anxious to pro- 

 duce new vines, I would not have permitted this, 

 as the young beds would have been much 

 stronger, and in better condition for bearing, if 

 all runners had been cut from them. It is true 

 that this variety is the most vigorous grown on 

 my soil that I have ever seen. Having once 

 marked its dark-green foliage, its red stocky 

 leaf-stems and runners, you would always recog- 

 nize it afterwards even at a distance. Much of 

 its fruit was immensely large, and even the last 

 pickings from my small bed were of good size. 

 I do not know its name with certainty, but 

 think it is a new berry, known as Boydan's No. 

 30. In the spring of '70 I obtained a few plants 

 of six new varieties, and put them out in row. 

 side by side. A man weeding them carelessly 

 carried off the labels, so I was able to distin- 



