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acre in those two rows. We usually picked two bushels a day 

 from them, and practically all first class $3 20 berries By the 

 wiy, I should'have said that the drawer of Htvtrlands that had 

 its picture taken was just as they grew no sorting. Now, this 

 I know : that that sixteenth of an acre brought us at the rate 

 of over $1000 per acre. The berries just lay in piles all ovtr 

 the ground, and visitors said they never saw such a sight. I 

 took a sample to an old dealer in the city, and he said, " You 

 may talk quality to people to the end of the world, and 

 every mother's son and daughter of them will buy that which 

 pleases their eye. That berry is beautiful, and it will sell 

 high." He is abou". right. The Hiverland is a little weak in 

 flavor, and rather soft with us ; but it is beautiful, and enor- 

 mously productive. 



The Bubachs were very large ten or twenty per cent larger 

 than the S.erlings shown in the picture, at first ; but the yield 

 was quite moderate. The Sterling was grand, as usual, holding 

 out to the very last, not in size, but in quantity. I think this 

 berry has nearer the wild-strawberry flavor than any other I 

 know of. The Jessie, on our soil, is the poorest ) ielder of all. 

 The Cumberland did only moderately well, and the Downing 

 also. In fact, all our perfect-flowering varieties were away be- 

 hind in yield. The imperfect ones brought in the bulk of the 

 dollars. Do not grow perfect berries for market, except what 

 may be necessary for fertilizing. Wouldn't I except the Gandy, 

 which brought me such magnificent berries? No, except that 

 you might grow a few to make a change for your customers. 

 They are small yielders. The first picking was grand ; the 

 second, fair; the third, hardly ordinary. As to lateness, it 

 will not prolong the season at all It is eight days or so later 

 in ripening its first Serries ; but the last picking of Haverlands 

 and Gandies was on the same day, and the former are the larg- 

 er. It has a peculiar flavor, something like pineapple, which 

 I should soon tire of, but some people were delighted with it. 

 It is also a wonderful keeper. Ripe berries will keep perfectly 



