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better no earlier to speak of than one kind Mr. C. sent me. 

 I found the Gandy also advertised as the latest of all strawber- 

 ries. Well, now, you know that caught me again. I did want 

 to prolong the season a week or so. Well, it did ripen its first 

 berries ten days later than ordinary varieties. It is a good 

 grower, and the fruit very large and fine ; but for some reason 

 we picked the last good berries, to amount to any thing, only 

 about " fifteen minutes " after the other standard kinds were all 

 done bearing. It is a late berry to begin to ripen, but did not, 

 last year, hold out at the latter end of the season.* 



* We, too, had great expectations of the Gandy. The first ripe berry 

 we got last year from it was on the 4th of July, and the plant was such a 

 beautiful grower the berries so very large that we made quite a little 

 planting of the Gandy. This season they made a magnificent growth; 

 but only about one plant out of four bore any berries at all. The old 

 plantation of last year has done very little better. We also noticed what 

 friend Terry mentions that, although it was so very late before it ripened 

 a single berry, the season was so short that they were gone almost as soon 

 as the Jessie, that gave us our first berries. 



Later, June 20, 1890. Since writing the above I have been down to the 

 patch where the old original Candies stand. I picked a quart of berries 

 from perhaps two dozen plants. Out of this quart I selected a heaping 



