SMALL FRUITS. 



VARIETIES AND CULTURE. 



There is in this class of our fruits varieties of every cul- 

 ture and suited to almost all soils and climates. Of 

 course when bleak cold winds prevail during the dormant 

 season of the year, more or less of protection must be 

 given. 



With Strawberries one must to a certain extent give 

 credit to the line of latitude below 40 deg., and strange as 

 it may seem to many, the Wilson's Albany, which origina- 

 ted at the north, and is generally grown both in family and 

 market gardens, is the most popular berry at the south. 

 The Newman 's has favor from- a few in South Carolina, 

 but Georgia says, that "it is a large and showy berry, but 

 is inferior in quantity." 



The Triomph de Gand holds as a family or near market 

 berry, the first place. 



Longworth's Prolific, Downer's Prolific, Green's Pro- 

 lific, Ida, Charles Downing stand well in all the South. 

 Yearly many new varieties are brought before the public, 

 and they are often written of, yet records of associations, 

 where people profess to meet and give information as to 



