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WOLVERTON. Much was hoped for this berry, and 

 it has good points, but the white tips condemn it. Not 

 equal in any way to Saunders. 



SHARPNESS. Too well known to need description. 

 Grown yet in many gardens because of its large size 

 and excellent quality, but the blossoms are tender and 

 the fruit is liable to be blasted by frost in early spring. 

 It is time to discard it. 



WILSON. This veteran is still grown in some sec- 

 tions more than any other single variety. But the plant 

 is feeble, the berry small, sour and inferior to many 

 others. Why it is planted at all I cannot imagine. 



JESSIE- A good pollenizer for Bubach and Haver- 

 land. The strong points of the Jessie, according to 

 A. I. Root, are that it is exceedingly early, of large 

 size, and that its red cheeks, reminding one of a ripe 

 peach, make it bring the very highest price. The 

 berry is sweet and holds on well to the last. Its dis- 

 advantages are that if the soil is not just to its liking 

 it gets feeble, and does not bear much fruit, and its 

 blossoms are likely to be injured by frost. 



MARY. A stocky growing- plant with man}' fruit crowns, pro- 

 ductive of large, roundish, conical, dark, glossy crimson berries ; 

 very red at the centre ; acid and flavorless ; productive and late. 

 I am inclined to think that this will prove a good market berry. 



Of the twenty varieties mentioned in this chap- 

 ter all but four have perfect blossoms. Out of the 

 ten best varieties named in the preceding chapter, 

 all but three are self-pollenizing. It seems not un- 

 likely that before very long pistillate or imperfect 

 flowering varieties will be abandoned altogether. 

 The sooner the better. 



