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ket use, the " Henderson " is almost certain to become a 

 standard sort, and its strong and healthy growth will 



Fig. 102. THE HENDERSON STRAWBERRY. 



adapt it to almost every soil. It is a perfect-flowered 

 variety, and, therefore, never fails to set its fruit. 



Crimson Cluster, (See figure 103.) On the 10th of 

 June, 1886, I examined this Strawberry on the grounds 

 of the raiser, Mr. E. W. Durand, and found 3,000 plants 

 that had been planted on the 15th of August, 1885, 

 which, in less than ten months from the date of planting, 

 were producing - a crop that would average fully a quart 

 to each plant ; 3,000 quarts from the 3,000 plants, or at 

 the rate of over 20,000 quarts per acre. The crop was 

 so immense, and the size of the berries so large, that the 

 pickers who were paid two cents per quart, averaged 

 twenty-five quarts per hour, or $5.00 per day a fact 

 beyond question, and which could be attested by a dozen 

 affidavits. At the first picking, every yard of row 



