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VOL. VIII.] 



SEPTEMBER, 1885. 



\{No. 9^.. 



THE JEWELL STRAWBERRY.. 



Throngh the courtesy of Messrs. 

 P. M. Augur & Sons, of Middlefield, 

 Conn., we are enabled to present our 

 readers with a colored phite of this 

 new candidate for popular favor. The 

 history of the origin of the Jewell is 

 given us by the Messrs. Augur as 

 follows : — In the month of June, 1880, 

 they brought from New Jersey a quart 

 of very fine berries of the Jersey 

 Queen, and another of the Prince of 

 Berries, and sowed the seed in the 

 open ground. The E>ext year they 

 transplanted the seedling plants ob- 

 t^^ined from this seed inta a heavy, 

 clay loam soil, and gave them ordinary 

 cultivation. These seedlings fruited 

 in 1882, and this one manifested great 

 vigor and productiveness, yielding large 

 berries, which maintained their size 

 throughout the season. 



They then took plants from the 

 heavy clay loam, and planted them on 

 the lightest soil on their farm, which 

 they regarded as going from one ex- 

 treme to the other in point of soil. 

 On this light land, they state, that in 

 1883 they picked from a single row, 

 sixteen feet long, over twenty quarts 

 of choice fruit. 



The color of Jewell, we are told, is 



a bright red, changing to crimson when- 

 fully ripe ; and the quality very good 

 to best. The shape conical, often wedge 

 shaped ; seldom flat or coxcombed. 

 The berries arc said to be firm, and 

 therefore carry well ; the blossoms 

 pistillate, that is, not self-fertilizing. 

 The season of ripening medium to late. 



The Rural New-Yorker of last year 

 says : " The plants are unusually vigor- 

 ous and productive as judged from this 

 imperfect test of spring set plants. 

 Each plant averaged from two to three 

 fruit stems, each bearing from six to 

 thirteen berries of goodly size. There 

 are no small onesi The shape is some- 

 times conical, sometimes broadly ovate, 

 broadened at the tip. The color is a 

 bright i-ed, the season (time of ripening) 

 medium, quality fair." In the number 

 of 11th July, 1885, the Rurcd Nevr 

 Yorker further says : " Last year the 

 Rural said that the Jewell strawberry 

 has come to stay ; this season's experi- 

 ence does not change our opinion." 



Mr. T. S. Gold, Secretary of the 

 Connecticut Board of Agriculture, says: 

 " The fruit, as produced on my few 

 plants, was of the largest size, fine 

 color, and of excellent quality." 



Mr. T. T. Lyon received some plants 



