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flavor, productive, and highly valuable. A very showy berry for 

 market, and a very remarkable and distinct fruit. Plant very 

 hardy and vigorous, with large, broad, dark-green foliage. The 

 leaves never burn during the summer ; nor are the plants ever 

 injured by the winter. 



Imperial Scarlet, P. Second only in size to the preceding, to 

 which it is rather superior in flavor ; the form, obtuse, cone, or 

 rounded, scarlet, handsome, and very showy, juicy, and sprightly 

 flavor, firm, and well suited for market,— productive ; plant very 

 vigorous, foliage pale-green, very large and luxuriant ; a remark- 

 able variety, very valuable for the size and beauty of its fruit, 

 and for its other qualities. This, and the preceding variety are 

 of larger average size than Hovey's Seedling, and much superior 

 in color and flavor, and consequently, better suited for market. 



Ijiperla-L Crimson, P. Large, short cone or rounded, dark-scar- 

 let or crimson, fine color, sweet, fine flavor, productive ; a first 

 rate berry, firm for market. It is nearly as large as McAvoy's 

 superior, and has the qualities for a market fruit, in which that 

 variety is so deficient. 



Le Barox, H. Early, very large, obtuse, cone, dark-scarlet, 

 not showy, — sweet, rich, melting, highest flavor of all the 

 large varieties, very productive for one of its sexuality, and 

 continues long in successive bearing ; foliage, tall, light-green, 

 and very vigorous, — a seedling of the old Swainstone. 



Supreme Montevideo, P. Very large, obtuse cone, bright, light 

 scarlet ; a beautiful berry, juicy, sprightly, moderatel}' sweety 

 very productive ; foliage large and vigorous. A seedling from 

 the Montevideo or Chili, and precisely equivalent to obtaining a 

 Pistillate variety from the British Queen. 



Rosalind, P. Very large, obovate, beautiful light scarlet, 

 moderate, but good flavor, very showy, scarcely firm enough for 

 long carriage to market, very productive ; plant vigorous, with 

 large, broad foliage. 



Eclipse, P. Early, large, conical, splendid fruit, on long pe- 

 duncles, and has the remarkable property of ripening all its 

 berries at the same time ; bright scarlet, high, brilliant color, 

 fine flavor, with slight acidity. It is one of the greatest bearers 



