THE STRAWBERRY MARCH 1907 



do all this to keep the birds away. It 

 may not on cheap, small berries, but I 

 know it will on large berries, for I know it 

 paid me last year on a bed of my new 

 seedling, "Golden Gates." On the same 

 bed the year before (1905) the birds took 

 the lion's share, as there was nothing to 

 keep them away. Last year I tried the 

 cloth and although it was the second year 

 of fruiting this same bed, I exhibited at the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Exhibition in 

 June 1906, seven quarts picked from this 

 bed which won $23 in prizes. 



Birds seem to be good judges of qual- 

 ity, for they eat more berries of the best 

 quality and they seem to prefer to eat 

 those largest berries one has tried to save 

 for exhibition. 



It has been said God never gave man 

 exhibition fruit, but gave him the various 

 kinds of fruit in smaller sizes for him to 

 improve or develop. I enjoy exhibiting 

 strawberries, particularly new seedlings 

 of my own originating; also varieties out 

 of the regular season of common kinds 

 such as the "Pan Americans" and "Aut- 

 umns," both of which 1 had on exhibition 

 last year from August 1 until November 

 4 — not a few single berries, but quarts of 

 them. No one knows how good his fruit 

 is comparatively until he places it beside 

 other growers' products. 



I often think of what the chairman of 

 our fruit committee told me about a spec- 

 tator looking over an exhibit of pears at 

 one of our horticultural exhibitions. After 

 looking for awhile he informed the chair- 

 man of the fruit committee he had pears 

 at home much better than any there on 

 the tables. As he lived but a short dis- 

 tance away the chairman informed him 

 he had time to get them and advised him 

 to do so. He was back in season with 

 his pears, but as he took them out and 

 compared them with those on the tables 

 he soon put them back into the basket in 

 disgust, concluding they had shrunken in 

 size in their short distance transportation. 

 The point I wish to emphasize is that no 

 one knows how good or inferior his fruit 

 is till he displays it with others on the ex- 

 hibition table. 



Weston, Mass. 



'T'HIS last thought of Mr. Weston's 

 •^ makes apropos an incident in the life 

 of one of America's greatest men, so great, 

 indeed, that the world is proud to acclaim 

 him one of its best products. We Hnd 

 this incident, as related by George Ban- 

 croft Griffith, of East Lempster, N. H., 

 in the current number of Green's Fruit 

 Grower. We quote: 



"No one ever had more genuine delight 

 in the possession of land and its accom- 

 panying wealth of growth and bloom, than 

 did Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet and 

 philosopher, in his orchard. Some caviller 

 said to him, \out pears cost you more 

 than mine, which I buy;' and the answer 

 was ready: 'Yes, they are costly; but we 



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