SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 

 MCAVOY'S SUPERIOR. 



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The committee concluding that this fulfilled the condi- 

 tions, reported in its favor, and the report was adopted 

 by the Society. In September, 1851, we obtained two 

 plants, and in so far as our observation of it has ex- 

 tended in our own and several other gardens, in differ- 

 ent portions, of our country it is superior, in average 

 size and productiveness, to any other variety we have 

 seen ; and while it is good, and when properly ripened 

 of high flavor and delicious, yet we do not think it 

 equals, much less surpasses, Burr's New Pine in flavor. 

 It is pistillate, hardy, vigorous, dark serrated leaf, long 

 foot-stalks, trusses of fruit full and usually well formed, 

 but occasionally a berry not entirely filled out ; the 

 nanners are not so numerous as to be troublesome 



