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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



THE NEWER STRAWBERRIES. 



T might be expected that we would make some positive statements 

 regarding the merits of some of the newer strawberries, when it is known 

 that we have some sixty kinds under test at Maplehurst ; but the more we 

 experiment the more we find the need of caution about making statements 

 regarding their merits. A new fruit that under certain conditions gives 

 wonderful promise often proves a failure under ordinary conditions. 



The Jessie, for instance, is a magnificent berry, measuring four to five inches 

 in circumference when receiving extraordinary treatment in points of culti- 

 vation and manure, but when treated as we usually do our Crescents it is 

 not satisfactory. Allowed to grow in wide, matted rows, with ordinary man- 

 uring, we find that the first 

 lew berries are large and in 

 keeping with its general re- 

 putation, but the balance of 

 the crop consists of small, 

 imperfect ones, and the yield 

 is therefore scant. 



The Belmont is a berry 

 of marked characteristics, 

 large, firm and, with high 

 culture, fairly productive. It 

 is one which we would like to 

 test on a larger scale. 



The BuBACH appears to 

 be all that is claimed for it, 

 and deserves to be planted 

 on a larger scale and tested 

 in field culture. The June 



Fig. 59.-THE Bubach Strawberry. Actual Size. number ol Popular Gardening 



pictures a large sample of this berry which we reproduce. It was grown 

 upon a plant two years of age in moderately fertile soil. It was con- 

 sidered by the grower a remarkably huge berry, but a writer in the July 

 number, says that the Bubach frequently attains the size represented. He 

 says : " The writer this season has picked dozens of just such berries, 

 some of them even larger, and all of immense size. "^ 



It is a No. I berry for all purposes, and for market there seems as yet 

 nothing to compete with it. It is a most vigorous grower, never rusts or 

 blights, always a good bearer of berries, and seems to succeed everywhere. 



Of the many others, such as Michael's Early, Lady Rusk, Great Pacific, 

 Haverland,Warfield,etc., we must decline giving any personal opinion till we 



