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berry, for I find that buyers will have 

 large strawberries. Then the fruit must 

 be firm enough to stand shipment of 

 300 or 400 miles and keep in good con- 

 dition for 48 hours after gathering. 1 

 want some early varieties, but not unless 

 the quality is A No. 1, for if my first 

 shipments are small and inferior, my 

 customers fail to repeat their orders, 

 thinking that the late ones will be equal- 

 ly poor. It usually pays me quite as 

 well to be able to prolong my shipments, 

 as to begin extra early. I also look for 

 varieties with good fruit stems that will 

 hold the berries out of the mud when 

 we irrigate. Now I do not mean to say 

 that all the varieties I have selected for 

 fruit come up to my standard, nor are 

 they all of recent introduction, but I 

 am led to believe that some few of them 

 may beat any I have hitherto tried. 

 They are Magoon, Pride of Cumberland, 

 Edward's Favorite, Kentucky, Splendid, 

 Jessie, Glen Mary, Jerry Rusk, Eureka, 

 Gertrude, Sunnyside, Hunn, Laxton's 

 Noble, Nick Ohmer, Robinson, Holland, 



Carrie, Enormous, Ruby, Hall's Favo- 

 rite, Ohio Centennial, Beverly, Iowa 

 Beauty, Martha, Muskingum, Princess, 

 Aroma, Giant, Crawford, Equinox, 

 Princeton Chief, Georgia Triumph, 

 Fountain, Ridgeway, Ponderosa, Clyde. 



It will be noticed that a great num- 

 ber of well-known and equally good new 

 varieties are missing from this list, but 

 this is because myself or some one else 

 has tried them and found them deficient 

 in some necessary quality. Other 

 growers may have better results with 

 such strawberries as Brandywine, Wm. 

 Belt, Mary, Parker Earle, Lady Thomp- 

 son, Woolverton, etc. 



From my own experience I believe 

 that the man who tries 100 and selects 

 5 or 6 of those that give him the best 

 results, will raise double, if not thrible, 

 the quantity of fruit per acre, and better 

 fruit too, than if he follows the advice 

 of some book or plant catalogue, or 

 even the advice of a friend. — F. C. 

 Barker, in Strawberry Culture. 



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Cs\ f>^HE apple maggot, or railroad 

 worm, is a serious pest that is 

 rapidly spreading from the east 

 to the west. The mature in- 

 sect is a fly, which cannot readily be 

 poisoned, and it is supposed that the eggs 



Fig. 1608.— Mature Fly of Apple Maggot. 



which produce the maggots are deposit- 

 ed by the flies in the pulp of the apple 

 beneath the skin, so that the young 

 maggots are secure within the fruit, from 

 the time the eggs are laid until they are 

 mature and emerge from the apple to go 

 into the ground. The maggot is very 

 small, and honeycombs the fruit doing lit- 

 tle material injury to the skin or exterior 

 appearance, but causes streaks of rot in 

 the flesh of the fruit, that are very repug- 

 nant to the consumer. The soil beneath 

 infected trees was examined at the Rhode 

 Island experiment station last fall 

 (bulletin 37, L. F. Kinney), and the 

 number of maggots that were secreted 

 under different trees was estimated to be 



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