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OFFICE ADDRESS— GRIMSBY, ONT. 



VOL. X.] 



FEBRUARY, 1887. 



[No. 2. 



THE JESSIE STRAWBERRY. 



This is a very pretentious strawberry. 

 It claims to be just the very berry that 

 everybody wants. We want a berry of 

 excellent quality, and we are assured 

 that in quality it surpasses the Atlantic 

 or the Prince of Berries ! We want a 

 large berry, and they tell us tliiat it is 

 one of the largest, that thirteen selected 

 ones or thirty ordinai-y sized ones will 

 fill a quart, and that some of the berries 

 measure eight or nine inches in circum- 

 ference ! We want a productive berry, 

 and we are told that it is twice as pro- 

 ductive as the Sharpless ; indeed, some 

 of our American friends would have us 

 believe that it will produce fi-om 6,000 

 to 18,000 quarts per acre ! But we 

 Canadians are too slow-going in our 

 notions to swallow that statement 

 whole. 



The originator of the Jessie is Mr. 

 F. W. Loudon, of Janesville, Wiscon- 

 sin, and before purchasing the colored 

 ]>lates for our journal we wrote to him 

 and others to get as reliable information 

 as possible concerning its merits. We 

 give Mr. Loudon's reply in full, leaving 

 our readers to form their own conclu- 

 sions. 



"Sir,— Yours of the 20th Novem- 

 ber to hand, and in reply I will say 

 that you may believe me when I tell 

 you the Jessie is no humbug. It will 

 prove just as I represented it in any 

 part of the earth where the strawberry 

 is known. It is an immense grower. 

 To-day (Nov. 23) I have dug 2,000 

 plants that were not in existence till 

 after the 21st of August. Nine-tenths 

 of the plants were extra large, and the 

 size of the berry and yield is in keeping 

 with the growth of the plant. I counted 

 120 roots on one plant, and of the lot 

 none ran lower than 70 to a plant. 



"The Jessie originated in 1880; it 

 has fruited live seasons, always giving 



