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Burr's New Pine, Hovey's Seedling, and Monroe Scarlet, and remainder 

 of Crimson Cone, Large Early Scarlet and Boston Pine. For market 

 I would largely add Rival Hudson and Willey." 



In 1852 the American Pomological Society considered as worthy 

 of general cultivation the Boston Pine, Hovey, Jenny's Seedling, and 

 Large Early Scarlet. These varieties continued to stand among the 

 leading sorts for several years. Very little was heard of Wilson's 

 Albany ; no pains being taken to bring it into notice. In 1856 John 

 Sloan, of Albany, fruited a bed of three hundred plants and found 

 them to be more prolific than Early Scarlet or Crimson Cone. In 

 October, 1857, Mr. John Wilson, the son of the raiser, sent some plants 

 to Mr. J. Jay Smith, in Philadelphia, the then Editor of the Horticul- 

 turist. In 1858 H. H. Mish, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reported 

 that he had received some plants of this variety during the previous 

 Autumn, and that it promised to be productive and valuable. Dr. 

 Russell, of Hartford, Connecticut, reported it very productive, berries 

 dark red, firm, juicy and well flavored : at the meeting of the Fruit 

 Growers' Society of Western New York, held that Summer, Burr's New 

 Pine and Early Scarlet, received each seven votes for amateur culti- 

 vation, Wilson's Albany and Hovey each four votes, and for market 

 Early Scarlet received eight votes, Crimson Cone and Wilson's Albany 

 each seven, Hovey four, and Burr's New Pine only two. The Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society in that year added it to their list for general 

 cultivation. 



Thus we see that five years had elapsed from the time of its first 

 introduction at Albany before it had become sufficiently known to 

 obtain a place in the list of the American Pomological Society. 

 Passing now over a period of a dozen years, we find, on looking at the 

 Report of the American Pomological Society for 1871, that out of fifty 

 States and Provinces, represented in that Society, the Wilson's Albany 

 has found its way into twenty-six, in all of which it is recommended, 

 and in fourteen of them it is double starred to denote superiority. 

 Meanwhile where are the varieties which stood in the front rank of 

 strawberry culture when Mr. Wilson first placed his new seedling on 

 the table of the Albany Horticultural Society ? Only four of them, 

 Boston I'ine, Hovey, Early Scarlet and Victoria, can be found at all in 

 this report. Of these, Boston Pnie is recommended in five Stiites, 



