Strawberries in 1869. "JJ 



the sake of its peculiar flavor, so different from that of any other berry I 

 know; but I can find but few who like it. The plant is vigorous, the berry 

 a compressed cone, light red, and firm. 



Empress Eugenie. — A compact, bushy grower, bearing a few red, cocks- 

 combed, poor-flavored berries. Of no special value. 



jfucunda. — This noble strawberry is now pretty widely known, and I 

 can only say, that, with me, it fully justifies all that Mr. Knox has said and 

 written about it. It is one of the most valuable acquisitions of late years. 

 It is noteworthy, that, in some locations, the berries are all flattened and 

 irregular ; while in others, as with myself, they are all regularly conical. 



Lady of the Lake. — This appears to be a very productive strawberry, 

 and perhaps will be a popular market-kind on account of its size ; but it 

 is not much above third-rate in flavor. 



Lennig's White. — This beautiful strawberry is gaining ground. Few 

 have ventured to plant it on a large scale, on account of its unproductive- 

 ness ; but it can be made to bear a good crop by keeping it in rows, and 

 cutting off the runners. No berry that I know excels this in the true pine- 

 apple flavor. A dish of Lennig's Wliite is a treat fit indeed pour Ls vrais 

 amateurs gourmets. 



Monitor. — Speaking from one year's experience, I can see nothing to 

 commend in this variety. If mine are true to name, it is a sour berry, 

 difficult to hull, and only moderately productive. 



Dr. Nicaise. — Probably there never was in all horticultural history a 

 greater delusion than this strawberry. It has almost every defect, except 

 small size, that one strawberry can have. In Gloede's latest catalogue it 

 is well described : " Fruit soft, pasty, of middling quality. It has the de- 

 fect of often ripening on one side, while the other remains green ; and, in a 

 rainy season, it is not edible." It is, in my experience of two years, a mod- 

 erate grower, a very poor bearer ; and the irregular, ugly berries ripen and 

 decay on the upper side, while the lower side is still green. 



Orb. — A row of a hundred plants of the Orb, well cared for, has not 

 produced this season one single good berry. There were, to be sure, six or 

 eight abortive berries, about as big as small peas ; but they were the whole 

 product of the bed. 



President Wilder. — I fruited this grand berry this season for the first 



