330 GARDENING TOR PROFIT. 



yielded a quart of fruit. When to this extraordinary 

 production we add the further facts, that this Strawberry 

 is of the richest crimson color, borne in immense clusters 

 (hence the name), and that it is one of the earliest as 

 well as the latest as its great vigor prolongs its season of 

 fruiting combined with its excellent quality, there is 

 every reason to think that it is bound to be the most 

 valuable Strawberry ever raised by Mr. Durand. 



On the 10th of July, one month after my first exami- 

 nation, seventy quarts of splendid fruit were gathered 



Fig. 103. CRIMSON CLUSTER STRAWBERRY. 



from the 3,000 plants above referred to, and furthermore, 

 to show it still kept on fruiting, Mr. Durand sent me a 

 large cluster of berries in all stages of development on 

 the 30th of July ; something entirely unknown in a 

 Strawberry that had already given an immense early crop. 

 Mr. Durand says that the " Crimson Cluster " is so 

 completely a pistillate variety that the stamens can 

 hardly be seen, yet he says it may be planted five miles 

 away from any other Strawberry and yet never fail to 

 produce enormous crops. He further says that he has 

 grown it in frames under glass in early spring, where it 



