THE AMERICAN STRAWBERRY 1 87 



maker, just In the same way as was the Keen's 

 Seedling. It practically marks the second 

 great step In the advancement of commercial 

 strawberry growing. 



From this time on new American varieties 

 began to appear, the greater part of them 

 being direct descendants of Hovey and the 

 Boston Pine. However, the majority came 

 from the former. The latter and Its Immedi- 

 ate offspring soon passed out, and to-day In 

 American strawberry literature the term 

 Pine has been practically lost. This Is not 

 because the Pine class has become extinct, 

 but, quite to the contrary, the Pine class 

 has driven out all other classes, and has 

 become the dominant one. The Hovey is a 

 fine example of a true Pine, with its thick, 

 rounded, dark leaves, stocky habit, stiff 

 flower cluster, and large, spreading calyx. 

 Practically all of our commercial straw- 

 berries of to-day are Pines, and they compare 

 well in botanical characters with the Impor- 

 tant Pines of Barnet's time, such as the Bath 

 Scarlet, as well as the Fragaria grandiflora of 

 the French gardens of seventy-five or one 

 hundred years ago. 



If these things are true, then our straw- 



