192 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 



the native wild fruit. It is a fact that some 

 people would not think they were eating 

 strawberries without a rather tart flavour 

 being given, while others have gone so far in 

 their demands that the berries must have 

 more of the sweet wild flavour, that breeders 

 have tried to obtain a berry of large size, 

 containing one eighth to one half or more of 

 the wild in its makeup, and this wild quality 

 must be given in increased sweetness of the 

 berry. 



As well as the flavour, the quality of the 

 flesh is a personal taste, whether the flesh 

 is fine grain, of one solid colour or with a dark 

 rim and light toward the centre, having also 

 the quality of mashing easily (making a poor 

 shipper but a good home berry), or whether 

 it is coarse flesh of solid colour or not, and a 

 good, hard shipper. There is generally some 

 coordination between the poor shipper, a 

 fine-grained berry with increased sweetness, 

 and the good shipper, a coarser berry with 

 increased acidity. 



As was said just before, these factors of 

 personal taste in strawberry raising are 

 greater for the home grower, as his gar- 

 den is the direct result of individual likes 



