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SELECTIOX OF VARIETIES. 



tive," and quality " good." It is pistillate, and its only 

 faiilts, as far as we are aware, are its acidity and its lack 

 of high flavor, which we do not consider indispensable 

 for a market fruit. 



jrnnet's seedling. 



JENNEY'S SEEDLING. 



This originated in New Bedford, 

 about the year 1845 : is of good 

 size, high flavor ; and has been 

 highly recommended by the Massa- 

 chusetts and other Horticultural 

 Societies. AVe have successfully 

 cultivated it for four or five years, 

 and think its advantages are, its 

 good fair size, bright handsome 

 color and form, sprightly rich flavor, lateness of season in 

 bearing, and sound flesh, fitting it for a first-rate market 

 fruit, or for preserving ; its defects are, its not being 

 the largest size and only a medium bearer. The plant 

 is vigorous, and blossoms pistillate. 



MOYAMENSING PINE 



It bore off' the premium offered by the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society in 1848 for the best seedhng 

 strawberry exhibited that year, and is described as fol- 

 lows; "Fruit rather large; roundish conical; deep 

 crimson ; seeds crimson, set in rather deep depressions, 



