CHAPTER XV. 



TEN VARIETIES OF ESTABLISHED MERIT. 



' Tis easy to go further and fare worse. TIM. 



ISHAU, not undertake to describe all the varieties 

 of strawberries now before the public. I shall 

 not describe any which arc likely to be soon dis- 

 carded, owing to some fault or lack of positive merit. 

 For one thing, I do not possess the facility of 

 language, or the elasticity of conscience that will 

 induce or enable me to bestow superlative praise 

 upon a hundred different varieties. I have found it 

 very difficult to decide how best to present the ques- 

 tion of varieties, since there are so many with such 

 varying merits and faults in different localities, and 

 under different conditions, and opinions of growers- 

 vary so much ; but I have concluded to first present 

 a standard list, consisting of ten sorts of established 

 merit, such as have been well tested in all parts of 

 the country, and which have proven to be worthy of 

 trial, and which are pretty sure to give a good account 

 of themselves under fair conditions of soil, climate 

 and culture. Some of them, like the Warfield, are 

 supposed to have run out, and others, as the Parker 

 Karle, are not free from faults ; (did you ever know a 

 variety .free from faults?) yet I consider the ten 

 named, all things considered, the best ten to be found 

 among all the varieties now before the public. 



