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VOL. IIL] JULY. 1880. [No. 7. 



THE SHAEPLESS STEAWBEREY. 



This new variety of strawberry has attracted so much attention, 

 and seems to possess so many points of excellence, that we have sought 

 to give the members of our Association not only a verbal description 

 of the fruit, but a nicely executed colored representation. Through 

 the politeness of Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, who were the first to 

 call attention to this new fruit in western New York, and who had a 

 cut made of it expressly for their catalogue, this cut has been placed 

 at our service, and we are thus enabled to present it to you with this 

 number of the CxVNADIAX Horticulturist. Of the excellence of the 

 execution it is quite unnecessary to speak ; the plate itself invites 

 inspection and criticism. That it is faithful as a correct representation 

 of the fruit is of more importance to our readers, and we can assure 

 them that it was carefully drawn from nature, and by no means 

 exaggerates in any particular. It represents a single truss, and shews 

 the usual relative size of the berries. 



This new strawberry was raised from seed in 1872 by Mr. J. K. 

 Sharpless, of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, and bears his name. The 

 Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' Society thought so highly of it that they 

 gave a colored plate of the fruit in their Report for 1878, and speak 

 of the plant as being vigorous and luxuriant in growth, hardy and 

 prolific, while the fruit is described as being firm in flesh, with a 

 delicate aroma, and first in quality. 



The berries are large, often very large. In the summer of 1878 

 the nurserymen held their midsummer meeting at Rochester, and 

 among the berries of this variety which were exhibited at that meeting 

 was one that weighed an ounce and a half, and that measured seven 

 inches in circumference. 



The plant has a good reputation thus far for hardiness and vigor, 

 and for abundance of yield, the crops being represented as large under 

 ordinary treatment. It is very natural for any of us to give a Little 



