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ket as soon as it is red, people will buy it, and sugar makes it 

 sweet ; but if it is left on the vines until it is ripe, it is as good a 

 strawberry as I want. I carry my strawberries into the Gardiner 

 market in a peck measure, and tip them out as I would potatoes. 

 They choose to take them in that way, but at Lewiston they want 

 them deaconed up, topped over. They will buy them in Gardiner 

 in bulk by weight or measure, and when I tip them out they will 

 roll out all in a body, but when they are green they won't jam. I 

 have tried another variety, the Borden's No. 30. I brought some 

 of them to Lewiston, where they were pronounced not as good as 

 the Wilson. They were not tart enough. 



Mr. McLaughlin. Is n't it a shy bearer ? 



Mr. SiiiTH. It don't bear as well as the Wilson, but they are 

 extremely large and are abundant when they do bear. 



Mr. G. B. Sawyer. Isn't it the same as the Green Prolific ? 



Mr. McLaughlin. If it is I would soon throw it away. 



Mr. A. S. Sawyer. I tried Borden's No. 30 three years, and 

 turned it under. As to its general points, it is a very fine fruit — 

 when you get it. I don't think it is the same as the Green Pro- 

 lific. In the strawberry business the great want is a market. We 

 depend wholly upon the Boston market. Our fruits come on later 

 than their's, and they give us the market after their crops are ex- 

 hausted. Last year we started about the 4th of July (from the 1st 

 to the 4th), at 22 or 23 cents per box and run down to about 16 

 cents, and then the price advanced so that we cleaned out at 25 

 cents. We send them unhulled, and can ship them there in good 

 shape. 



Mr. Varney. The Green Prolific foliage grows much like Wil- 

 son's Albany. They are about the same shape, about as soft, and 

 not so large. 



Mr. Abbott, Would anybody set out strawberries at any other 

 time than in the spring, and expect them to succeed ? 



Mr. McLaughlin. I would set in September every time. You 

 get a good crop the next year, which you can't do if you wait and 

 set in the spring. I would take the fall by all means, if in a good 

 situation. 



Mr. Uersey. Isn't August preferable to September? 



Mr. McLaughlin, I think it is if the weather isn*t too dry. 



Mr. IIersey, I find I have most success in August. 



Mr. McLaughlin, I should expect to if I could make them live. 

 I find no difficulty in doing that by putting them in in September. 



