200 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Although this outline, confessedly imperfect, shows that straw- 

 berry culture had received some attention preceding the present 

 century, and that a considerable number of varieties had been 

 secured, yet it is in modern times that through the growing of 

 seedlings, and the facilities for reaping a reward for alleged 

 improvements, varieties have become overwhelming in number. 

 In remote times, even towards the close of the last century, 

 growers were wont to seek their supplies from the woods and fields ; 

 now the nurseryman is applied to. This increase in varieties 

 may best be indicated by giving in tabular form the number of 

 varieties that have been mentioned by garden writers of various 



dates. ^ 



Kinds Named. 



The modern varieties under American culture have usually large 



