68 SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



grown, and on exhibition, it will bear off the first 

 prize from Hovey's Seedling, and all other varieties ; 

 yet it is, under ordinary cultivation, nearer the size of 

 three inches in circumference. It is a great favorite 

 with families of exquisite taste, either for the hand or 

 for the table, and we have proved it to be the earliest 

 of sixty varieties in the same garden to ripen its fruit, 

 and one of the latest to cease bearing ; and occasional 

 plants have produced a small second crop in the au- 

 tumn, while standing without watering in the open 

 garden. The fruit is large, round, conical and even ; 

 color, pale red ; seeds very slightly sunk ; flesh, whitish- 

 pink, sweet, and too tender for a market fruit ; quite 

 productive, and berries perfect; the foliage is large, 

 and the plant is vigorous and hardy. It is indispens- . 

 able for private gardens. Pistillate. 



The two remaining plants of the first six are stami- 

 nate, or hermaphrodite. This variety originated in 

 Cincinnati at the same time with McAvoy's Superior. 

 Mr. Longworth furnished the seed for both plants to 

 two cultivators, McAvoy and Schnecke, the former 

 of whom produced the Superior, and the latter this 

 variety, which at first was called " Schnecke's Herma- 

 phrodite," but afterwards named by the Cincinnati 

 Horticultural Society, "Longworth's Prolific," in 



