THE STRAWBERRY. 



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pickers, who were paid two cents per quart, averaged 

 twenty-five quarts per hour, or five dollars per day ; a 

 fact beyond question, and which could be attested by a 

 dozen affidavits. At the first picking, every yard of row 

 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 



Fig. 83. JERSEY QUEEN STRAWBERRY. 



of fruiting combined with its excellent quality, there is 

 svery 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 

 from the 3,000'pknts above referred to ; and furthermore, 

 to show that 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 



