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are a great improvement over their parents. 

 It is reasonable to expect more and improved 

 varieties from Mr. Cooper's valuable experi- 

 ence. 



Besides Mr. Cooper, several others are 

 working on these fall-bearing varieties. 

 Mr. Louis Huback of Arkansas; Mr. Edwin 

 H. Riehl of Illinois; Mr. L. J. Farmer of 

 Pulaski, N. Y., and others have been experi- 

 menting and raising seedlings. Mr. Harlow 

 Rockhill, however, is perhaps the man that 

 has secured the most marked practical results. 

 Two of the best of his seedlings, Francis and 

 Americus, have proved remarkably success- 

 ful. They are a decided advance over all 

 former fall-bearing varieties. 



NEW VARIETIES 



New varieties are obtained as described 

 in the chapter on "Breeding." The method 

 used by Mr. Cooper in raising his new varie- 

 ties may be of interest: 



He first makes the crosses, then gathers 

 the fruit when fully ripe and mushes it to 

 a pulp and mixes with sand. A smooth piece 

 of soil is selected in the garden, and the seeds 

 sown there in July or early in the fall. They 



