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CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



and grows large crops both of the straw- 

 berry and raspberry ; he does not ship, 

 but disposes of all his crops in the 

 thriving town of St. Marys. I found 

 one plot of strawberries badly infested 

 with the strawberry root-worm. 



My next visit was to F. Mayer, Bridge- 

 port. He was in the midst of his red 

 raspberry picking. It would be hard 

 to tind such Clarkes as those were. Al- 

 though they were staked and wired, they 

 were so thrifty in cane it was difficult 

 for the pickers (women) to get through 

 them ; his land is well adapted for 

 fruit ; it is a rich sandy loam. Also 

 he has a promising young nursery of 

 budded plums, cherries, pears and 

 hardy apples — budded from stock had 

 from Mr. J. L. Budd, of Iowa Agricul- 

 tural College. I spent one night and 

 two days with him, and was hospitably 

 entertained, he giving me a drive in 

 his carriage to Waterloo and Berlin. 



My next visit was to the noted 

 strawberry grower of Ohio, Mr. Craw- 

 ford. I expected to be with him at 

 the horticultural meeting at Euclid, 

 Ohio, on the 7th of September, but 

 did not get to Cleveland till the 8th. 

 I spent 14 days with him and his 

 excellent wife, going with him here and 

 there among the fruit men in the 

 neighbourhood in which he live . 



It would occupy too much space in 

 the Horticulturist, and might not 

 please many of the readers, to tell 

 what I saw and heard and learned 

 about the strawberry whilst at friend 

 Crawford's. 



It has always been a treat to me to 

 visit Mr. Crawford's strawberry home ; 

 his grounds are kept in such good 

 order, and his beds are so clean, and 



rows so far apart, that the different 

 varieties cannot get mixed. I was 

 surprised at his fall plant trade ; mostly 

 every day during my stay his sons 

 were busy filling orders. One day 

 they expressed eight half bushel 

 baskets of potted plants at once. Mr. 

 Crawford attends to his correspon- 

 dence and also to his books ; his 

 varieties are up in the hundred, and 

 the seedlings sent to him for testing 

 are about forty. His experience with 

 new varieties, and what he says about 

 them, can be relied on, and is of much 

 value to all engaged in strawljerry 

 growing. 



I have all the varieties in his report, 

 and I send it to you. It will save nie 

 a good deal of trouble in writing about 

 them, as my experience is about the 

 same as his. 



This last strawberry season I had 

 the largest berries, and the best return 

 I have had in son)e years. I head the 

 list with Jessie, Bubach, Summit, 

 Ontario, Pineapple. [Manchester, Cum- 

 berland, Triumph, ]Mt. Vernon, jnid 

 some of the old varieties of seedlings 

 sentfor testing. Eureka (Logan-Itasca), 

 several of Mr. Louden's seedlings also 

 gave very large berries and are produc- 

 tive. 



If your correspondent '■ (1. J. B." 

 will do as T did — go to the home of 

 the Jessie in the fruiting sea.son— he 

 will see where the productiveness 

 conies in ; or to many places in 

 Canada where they know how to 

 grow the strawberry. Some men 

 when they get a few plants of a new 

 variety, expect too much from it and 

 kill them with kindness : others dont 

 know how to plant and care for him, 

 and so to them they are Avorthless. 



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