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taste of the flea-beetle and other insects. Originated with Mr. E. W. 

 Durand, and under his exceedingly high culture and skillful management 

 it yielded immense crops of enormous berries that sold as high as a dollar 

 per quart ; but throughout the country at large, with a few exceptions, it 

 seems to have been a melancholy failure. From this variety was produced 

 a berry measuring over fourteen inches in circumference probably the 

 largest strawberry ever grown. Staminate. 



Golden Defiance. Plant tall, very vigorous, somewhat slender, light 

 green ; leaf-stalk moderately downy ; truss 5 to 7 inches, 1 2 to 20 berries, 

 well clustered, all the berries developing to a good size; berry dark 

 scarlet, obtusely conical, smooth, sometimes necked, very uniform, 3 to 5 

 inches ; flesh scarlet, quite firm, juicy ; flavor very fine ; calyx spreading 

 and recurving; season late. 



For three successive years this has been the best late berry on my 

 place, and one of the most beautiful. Unless it changes its character, it 

 will win its way to the front rank in popularity. If its runners are cut, 

 it is exceedingly productive of fruit that is as fine-flavored as showy. 

 Pistillate. Originated with Mr. Amos Miller, of Pennsylvania. 



Glossy Cone. One of Mr. E. W. Durand's seedlings. A pretty berry, 

 with a varnished appearance, but neither productive nor vigorous on my 

 grounds, thus far. New. 



Helen. New. Plant tall, vigorous, with dark green foliage, very 

 downy ; truss 5 to 7 inches, branched ; berry light scarlet, flat, conical ; 

 flesh white, firm ; flavor fine ; calyx close ; season late. I fear the foliage 

 is inclined to burn badly. Staminate. 



Hervey Davis. New. Plant tall, rather vigorous, with light green 

 foliage ; leaf-stalk smooth, except when young; truss 5 to 6 inches ; berry 

 bright scarlet, shouldered, obtusely conical, glossy ; flesh very light pink, 

 firm ; flavor good ; calyx close ; season medium ; productive. It has 

 seemed to me the most promising of Mr. J. B. Moore's seedlings. The 

 berry resembles the Jucunda somewhat. Staminate. 



Hovey's Seedling. One of the most famous of the historical berries, 

 and still raised quite largely around Boston. It was originated by Mr. 

 C. M. Hovey, and was first fruited in 1835. Its introduction made a 

 great sensation in the fruit world, and the fact of its being a 

 pistillate gave rise to no end of discussion. Many who first bought 

 it set it out by itself, and, of course, it bore no fruit; therefore, they 

 condemned it. When its need of fertilization was understood, many 

 used wild plants from the woods for this purpose, and then found 

 it to be the largest and most productive strawberry in cultivation 



