CHAPTER XVI. 



NOTES ON OTHER OI^D VARIETIES- 



Some good yet ; others worn out. 



IT is indeed a difficult matter to handle my subject 

 when it comes to varieties. In the last chapter I 

 named ten, which, all things considered, taking 

 the country over, could be least spared. And yet 

 hardly any berry grower would select the same sorts 

 throughout, were he asked his opinion. Some that I 

 have named he would reject as worthless ; some that I 

 have omitted, he would put in. This is a large coun- 

 try with varying soils and climates, and markets are 

 different, so that a variety good in one place is worth- 

 less in another, or nearly so. 



Many of the sorts mentioned in this chapter are 

 such as do well in some sections, and many growers 

 could doubtless select therefrom three or four kinds 

 that they would unhesitatingly place in the list of the 

 best ten, and in doing so they would not go far wrong. 

 Others of the following list seem to have so run out 

 that they can no longer be depended upon and 

 should be dropped. As in the previous chapter, per- 

 fect flowering are in large, imperfect in small type. 



