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nish them in abundance, but I will note a few of the peculiari- 

 ties of some of them. 



Large Early Scarlet. — Produces fair crops every year on 

 any soil where strawberries will grow. It will bear better on 

 poor gravelly hill-sides than any other that I have tried. The 

 plants, singly, do not produce a large number of berries, but 

 they can be grown near together, thus making up the deficiency. 

 It is one of the best and most reliable early market varieties. It 

 is a hermaphrodite, and will bear alone. 



Hovey's Seedling, is a late and very excellent market variety, 

 and yields abundant crops of very large fruit when all things 

 are favorable. It will not bear well on wet or very rich soils, or 

 on poor or dry soils without copious waterings. It is a pistil- 

 late variety, and some staminate or hermaphrodite kind must 

 be near to furnish its blossoms with pollen, or it will not bear 

 fruit. Early Scarlet will do, but the Boston Pine may be bet- 

 ter, as it blossoms later. 



Boston Pine needs a deep, rich, and rather moist soil, and 

 plenty of room. It is a large, late and good variety, but is 

 rather uncertain with many cultivators. 



Jenney's Seedling — that which was described as " Jenney's," 

 by Cole, in the New England Farmer, vol. 3, but quite differ- 

 ent from that described by R. G. Pardee, and sent out by some 

 nursery-men. I shall not now attempt to say who is correct, but 

 will describe the variety which I refer to. The fruit is of me- 

 dium size, roundish ovate, dark crimson, somewhat acid, with 

 a rich, high flavor, very firm, late, and a superior fruit for 

 market. The plant is a strong grower, very hardy, and very 

 prolific. It requires a deep and rich soil. It is worthless on a 

 poor, dry soil — hence the unfavorable opinion some cultivators 

 have formed of this variety. I have never succeeded in obtain- 

 ing so large a crop from any other kind, and have no other that 

 will bear carriage so well, or keep so long after being gathered. 



Monroe Scarlet, (P.) will bear very large crops in a variety 

 of soils. The fruit is large, but is sour and not high flavored. 



McAvoy's Superior, (P.). This is a very fine fruit, about as 

 large as Hovey's Seedling, much more juicy, sweeter when fully 

 ripe, with a fine flavor, but is too soft for a market fruit. It 

 has borne well with me on a deep loam with red loam subsoil, 

 on strong clay loam, and on a coarse, gravelly soil. On the 



