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New Dominion. Described by Mr. Crawford, as " very large, round- 

 ish, uniform in size and shape; bright red; glossy, firm, of good flavor, 

 and productive; season medium." I have seen it looking poorly on light 

 soil. Originated with Mr. C. N. Biggar, on the battlefield of Lundy's 

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Oliver Goldsmith. New; a very vigorous grower, bearing a long, 

 conical berry with a glazed neck. Untested, but very promising. 

 Staminate. 



President Lincoln. Plant moderately vigorous; foliage light green; 

 truss 5 to 6 inches, strong ; berry crimson, conical ; often long, with a 

 neck ; the first large berries are coxcombed and very irregular ; flesh 

 firm, scarlet ; flavor of the very best ; size 3 to 6 inches ; calyx close to 

 spreading. One of the best varieties for an amateur. Among them 

 often, without any apparent cause, are found small bushy plants with 

 smaller leaves, and berries full of "fingers and toes." These should be 

 pulled out. The variety evidently contains much foreign blood, but is 

 one of the best of the class. The berries almost rival the Sharpless in size, 

 and are better in flavor, but the plant is not so good a grower. Specimens 

 have been picked measuring over eleven inches in circumference. It 

 is said to have originated with a Mr. Smith, of New York city, in 1875. 

 Staminate. 



President Wilder. In the estimation of many good judges, this is the 

 most beautiful and best-flavored strawberry in existence, an opinion in 

 which I coincide. It has always done well with me, and I have seen it 

 thriving in many localities. It is so fine, however, that it deserves all the 

 attention that it requires. It is a hybrid of the La Constant and Hovey's 

 Seedling, and unites the good qualities of both, having much the appear- 

 ance of the beautiful foreign berry, and the hardy, sun- resisting foliage of 

 Hovey's Seedling. It has a suggestion of the musky, Hautbois flavor, when 

 fully ripe, and is of a bright scarlet color, deepening into crimson in 

 maturity. Flesh quite firm, rosy white, juicy, very rich and delicious. 

 The berry is diamond-shaped, obtusely conical, very regular .,*r.d uniform; 

 seeds yellow and near the surface. The plant is low, compact, 

 rather dwarf, the young plants quite small, but the foliage endures 

 the sun well, even in the far South. The plants are more productive the 

 second year of bearing than in the first. Young plants often do not form 

 fruit buds. Mr. Merrick states that it " originated with President 

 Wilder, in 1861, and was selected as the best result obtained from 

 many thousand seedlings in thirty years of continual experimenting.'* 

 Staminate. 



