114 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, there are many extensive strawberry farms, and there are 

 others still more extensive on the Kentucky side of the river, who send 

 their berries to the Cincinnati market. Two of these growers have each 

 150 acres in strawberries, and have each sent four to five thousand bushels 

 to market in a season. In Massachusetts there are a great number of 

 strawberry growers, who are mostly located at Belmont, West Cambridge, 

 Brighton and Chicopee, who furnish great supplies for Boston and other 

 cities. They cultivate only a few leading varieties, and grow the Hovey 

 with great success, which may be done anywhere by selecting a suitable 

 staminate. In Illinois there are many extensive growers in the vicinity of 

 Chicago, at Centralia, Cobden, Tonti and other localities. Our western 

 States abound with strawberries in their woods and prairies, and of course- 

 they present congenial locations for the cultivated varieties. When the 

 culture of the strawberry is becoming so wide-spread, it is astonishing 

 what a diversity of opinions exist as to the meritorious varieties, and their 

 adaptation to the respective localities. Opinions are adopted and expressed 

 without sufficient scrutiny, and varieties become all the rage in some 

 localities, which have just been exploded and rejected elsewhere. The 

 experience of the first growers of any variety seems to be entirely ignored 

 by the second recipients, until they pass through the same school of experi- 

 menting and failure. A prejudiced opinion, emanating from an ignoramus, 

 is adopted without scrutiny, and passes equally current with those which 

 are based on scientific facts, and consequently many years are lost by use- 

 less experiments, which result in failures that might have been avoided by 

 previous inquiry. 



In Maryland, and in this State, where the largest and most successful 

 plantations exist, the varieties mostly grown for market are: the earliest 

 Jenny Lind, moderate crop; Bayne's Early Scarlet and Welcome, the first 

 named being gradually abandoned; the next in succession, Baltimore Scar- 

 let, Eclipse, Sultana, and Triumvirate; the next, as main crop. Scarlet 

 Magnate, Stewart, Diadem, Suprema, Hovey and Sempronia; and these 

 Pine varieties, La Constante, Lucas, Lennig's White Pineapple, and 

 Tucunda, which are far superior to Triomphe de Gand in flavor and crop; 

 and for the latest crop, Prince's Late Globe, a heavy bearing scarlet. The 

 Wilson, Austin and Downer are rejected as too sour, or too soft for mar- 

 ket, Fillmore as insipid, and Triomphe de Gand as a poor bearer and not 

 sweet. The varieties above recommended are for market. There are other 

 exquisite varieties of the Pine family, which being yet scarce and high 

 priced, will only be purchased by amateurs. They comprise the very 

 climax to which the strawberry has attained. It was in reference to the 

 delicious sweetness and exquisite aroma of this class of strawberries that the 

 Rev. Sidney Smith is reported to have made the comprehensive remark that 

 " doubtless God could have made a better \)exrj, but doubtless, he never did." 



The following comprises some of the largest, most beautiful and most 

 delicious varieties: Delice du Palais, Comtesse de Beaumont, Duke of 

 Cambridge, Auguste Rietmeyer, Emma, Empress Eugenie, Frogmore Late 

 Pine, Garibaldi, Robert Trail, Lorio, Orb, Ornement des Tables, Royals 

 Victoria, Beauty of England, Mrs. Neil son, Margueritte, Prince Arthur, 

 Scarlet Rock, Prince Imperial, and others. 



