HYBRID STRAWBERRIES 



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Gloire de Zuidwyck. A vigorous, productive, mid-early 

 variety ; fruit large, conical, deep orange or bright scarlet ; flesh 

 orange-coloured. Easily multiplied. Well adapted for market 

 supply, its fruit keeping well. 



Hohenzollern. Plant vigorous, with large round leaves ; fruit 

 numerous ; top-shaped, sometimes irregular, of a slightly coppery 

 red colour ; ripens late ; flesh dark red, very juicy, but not very 

 sugary. 



Kaiser Nikolas von Russland. A vigorous plant, with large 

 leaves and large flowers. Fruit very numerous, heart-shaped, with 

 sometimes the end remaining green ; flesh white, not very juicy, 

 but perfumed. Very productive. 



Keen's Seedling. A very good old variety. Fruit medium- 

 sized and of excellent quality. It is one 

 of the best of all kinds for forcing. 



Gloire de Zuidwyck Strawberry. 



Keen's Seedling 

 Strawberry. 



La Chalonnaise Strawberry. 



Koenig Albert. A compact, vigorous, very productive kind. 

 Fruit medium-sized or large, very short, flattened, light red ; 

 flesh very tender, juicy and sugary. Its runners produce some- 

 times a second crop. The fruit travels badly, and is easily 

 injured. 



La Chalonnaise. Fruit highly perfumed and delicate ; 

 flesh white. One of the best Strawberries grown, but rather 

 delicate. 



La Grosse Sucree. Plant of thick-set growth, hardy, and 

 vigorous, bearing rather abundantly and half-late ; fruit large, of 

 an elongated heart-shape, and of a bright shining red colour; 

 flesh pinkish white, very melting, abundantly juicv; and very 

 sugary. 



Latest of All. Very late, ripening only in July. Fruit 

 pretty large, oblong or knobby, not much coloured, green at 



