Varieties of Strawberries. 295 



Jucunda and Colonel Cheney formed the combination producing this berry. 

 It is now in enormous demand, and if it gives satisfaction throughout 

 the country generally, its popularity will continue. It is peculiarly adapted 

 to hill culture, and the plant is so vigorous that it would develop into- 

 quite a bush on rich, moist land, with its runners clipped. Staminate. 



Seneca Chief. Plant vigorous and productive; large, downy leaf; 

 truss low; berry bright scarlet, glossy, occasionally a little wedge-shaped; 

 round to conical, shouldered ; flesh firm, pink ; seeds yellow and brown ; 

 flavor fine, rich subacid ; season medium ; size 3 to 5 inches ; calyx 

 close ; a fine berry, originated by Messrs. Hunt & Foote, Waterloo, N. Y. 

 Staminate. 



Seneca Queen. Plant vigorous, foliage dark green ; leaf-stalk moder- 

 ately downy ; truss 3 to 5 inches ; berry dark crimson, round ; flesh red ; 

 flavor fair ; size 3 to 5 inches ; calyx close ; season medium ; productive ; 

 a promising variety. Staminate. 



Springdale. Plant low, stocky; leaf-stalk downy; leaf broad and 

 smooth ; truss 3 to 4 inches ; berry bright scarlet, round, broader than 

 long, 3 j to 5 inches ; flesh light pink, juicy, rather soft ; flavor very good ; 

 calyx close ; season early to medium. Originated by Amos Miller, of 

 Pennsylvania. Pistillate. 



Sucker State. Plant seems vigorous; foliage dark green ; leaf-stalk 

 downy ; berry light scarlet ; flesh pink, juicy, firm. A new and 

 promising variety. Staminate. 



Stirling. Only moderately vigorous ; foliage low, light green ; leaf- 

 stalk downy ; truss 3 to 5 inches, well branched ; berry crimson, ovate, 

 very uniform, somewhat necked ; moderate-sized, 2 to 3 inches ; flesh 

 pink, very firm; flavor of the best; calyx close to spreading; season- 

 medium to late. The foliage burns so badly in most localities that this 

 variety will pass out of cultivation. Pistillate. 



Triomphe de Gand. Plant light green; leaf- stalk and blade unu- 

 sually smooth ; truss 4 to 5 inches ; berry, the average ones, round to 

 conical, large ones irregular and coxcombed ; light scarlet, glossy ; flesh 

 pink, juicy, and solid; flavor of the best; calyx close; size 3^4 to 5 

 inches; season long; rather feeble grower, and comes slowly to maturity. 

 Admirably adapted to the narrow row system, and on heavy soils can be 

 kept in bearing five or six years, if the runners are cut regularly. If 

 I were restricted to one strawberry on a heavy, loamy soil, the Triomphe 

 would be my choice, since, on moist land with high culture, it will continue 

 six weeks in bearing, giving delicious fruit. When well grown, it com- 

 mands the highest price in market. It is probably the best foreign 



