THE 



Canadian Horticulturist, 



VOL. XIII. 



1590 



NO. 3. 



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THE BUBACH STRAWBERRY. 



|F the newer strawberries, there does not seem to be any one which 

 receives more general commendation than Bubach's No. 5. 

 It originated with J. S. Bubach, Princeton, Illinois, and was 

 sent out in 1886. It has been tried at many of the experi- 

 ment stations, as well as by many fruit-growers, and the 

 general verdict is that it is a valuable market berry, and will 

 be popular with commercial growers. 



It is a pistillate variety, and the plants are healthy, vigorous, 

 hardy and very productive. It does not produce new plants 

 as rapidly as some, but the fruit is uniformly large and 

 excellent, being much more regular than the Sharpless, and in every way 

 superior to that similar berry, the Ontario. Regarding its size, while 

 averaging about the same diameter as the Sharpless, or about i^ inches, it 

 is frequently grown i^ and more inches in diameter. In weight, it averages 

 about the same as the Jessie, according to the 6th Annual Report of the 

 Ohio Experiment Station, in which it is stated that an average of three 

 seasons showed 100 berries of the Bubach and of Jessie weighed thirty-five 

 ounces, but of Sharpless, about forty ounces. 



Mr. Geo. Dow, writing in the Country Gentleman, says of the Bubach: — 



** I have grown the former for three years, and I have yet to find a single 



fault with it, and the reports I get from all over the country say the same. 



