310 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, 



many of the noblest and most enlightened minds of the Nation, I trust that 

 in the future its march will ever be onward, aided, sustained, and perpetu- 

 ated by the accumulation of intellectual minds, which would appear to be 

 ever on the increase, and ever shedding new light and new radiance on all 

 the Sciences and Arts beneficial to humanity. 



We are now aware that the Strawberry Report we sent forth in 1859 

 has proven an entire failure, and the public were misled by its erroneous 

 recommendation of varieties which experience has now repudiated. I 

 trust that we shall in future adopt such a course as will render impossible 

 any similar failure by the Selection of a Committee fully competent to per- 

 form its duty to the public. 



I hope that we shall not act precipitately by undertaking now to forestall 

 public opinion so as to operate on the Spring sale of plants, but that we 

 shall allow full- time for a thorough examination of the products of the 

 ensuing Strawberry crop, and that the Committee we may appoint shall 

 make their Report after the fruiting season is past. 



Mr. Wm. R. Prince recommends to the members of the Farmers' Club, 

 American Institute, the two following Lists: 



SIX BEST VARIETIES FOR MARKET CULTURE AND FOR GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



Welcome. — The earliest berry, combining size, flavor, fine color, firmness, 

 cleanness and freedom from rot; separates readily from the hull, very pro- 

 ductive, every flower a fruit, and is a sexual anomaly, combining herma- 

 phrodite and pistillate flowers on the same plant. 



Scarlet Magnate. — Largest and heaviest of all North American varieties^ 

 and the most firm and solid. It must have the Ophelia as a fertilizer. 



Diadem. — Very large, pleasant flavor, beautiful, produces more than the 

 Wilson. 



Stewart. — Comprises, with the Suprema, nine-tenths of the Strawberry 

 farms of Maryland. 



Sempronia. — Large, sprightly flavor, very productive. 



Late Globe. — Large, bright scarlet, sprightl}^ acid, valuable for late mar- 

 ket crop. 



TEN BEST VARIETIES FOR AMATEURS. 



Lucas (De Jonghe). — The climax of all the Belgian Varieties,' very large, 

 beautiful, glossy crimson, sweet, aromatic, extremely rich, plant vigorous, 

 with large, broad, deep green foliage. 



Delices du Palais. — Round, bright scarlet, firm, juicy, sweet, highly per- 

 fumed, delicious; plant hardy, with vigorous foliage. 



Auguste Rietmeyer (De Jonghe). — A Belgian variety, very large, ovate, 

 vermilion, flesh salmon, exquisitely sweet, foliage large, deep green and 

 vigorous. 



Diichesse de BeaiLmont. — Very large, bright glossy scarlet, flesh rosy, 

 sweet, juicy, highly flavored; plant vigorous, very productive. 



Eureka (Prince).— Large, conical, light scarlet, beautiful, firm, sweet, 

 very juicy, high flavor, excellent; plant very vigorous, hardy, and exceed- 

 ingly productive; the highest in quality of all the North American varieties. 



Ornemenl des tables. — Largfe, very beautiful, bright orange scarlet, flesh 

 salmon, firm, sweet, juicy, deliciously perfumed; plant vigorous, productive. 



