THE CLYDE STRAWBERRY. 



NE of the most difficult fruits 



to keep posted about is the 



strawberry. Forty years ago 



there were but two varieties 



much grown among us, viz.: Hovey 



and Early Scarlet ; and when a little 



came legion, and among them some 

 that excelled in size, and others in qual- 

 ity. The Bubach, for example, was for 

 a time a leading variety on account of 

 the lack in vigor of the plant. 



Now the number of excellent varieties, 



Fig. 1537. — Clyde Strawberry. 



later, there appeared Wilson's Albany, 

 and Crescent it was the beginning 

 of a new era in strawberry growing. 

 For a long time these two varieties 

 held the supremacy as money makers, 

 until by and by its competitors be- 



many of them far superior to Wilson's 

 Albany, numbers in the hundreds ; so 

 that the most fastidious strawberry lover 

 may have his whims gratified ; and among 

 them such berries as Carrie, Saunders, 

 Seaford, Nick Ohmer, Glen Mary, Mar- 



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