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Mai'guevite. 



MARGUERITE. Very early and 

 popular variety well tested in Aus- 

 tralia; fruit large, elongated conical, or 

 cockscomb shape, bright red, shining; 

 flesh white, tinged with pink ; core 

 hollow, lacking a high flavour; seeds 

 rather deeply sunk. Plant robust, very 

 prolific and bears for a long time ; a 

 better carrier than Edith. 



MIKADO. Mr. W. J. Palmer, Mo- 

 mohaki Horticultural Station, North 

 Island, N.Z. : Without exception the 

 best strawberry I have ever met, both 

 for cropping and flavour. The foliage 

 is healthy and free from disease. This 

 is a New Zealand raised seedling. 



Noble. 



NOBLE. A valuable early 

 English variety. Plant hard} r , with 

 large leaves, prolific ; fruit large, 

 roundish conical, dark glossy red ; 

 flesh firm, solid, dark salmon colour ; 

 ripens early to in id- season, at the 

 same time as Paxton. Carries well. 



PARKER EARLE (H.). A tall, 

 vigorous grower, but burns badly, 

 making, however, a good recovery ; 

 sets practically no runners, and 

 hence only adapted to hill culture ; 

 leaf medium in size, and green in 

 colour. Berry medium, with dis- 

 tinct neck, long, bright crimson, 

 with a pronounced, rather unpleas- 

 ant, flavour ; ripens evenly. Productive and valuable both as a late 

 shipper and pollenator. Requires much moisture to perfect its 

 crop, and does best on heavy soils. 



PINK'S PROLIFIC (H.). A splendid late strawberry, does very 

 well in Queensland on low, rich scrub land, being quite free from 

 leaf blight. 



SHARPLESS (H.). A vigorous and 

 healthy, but straggling grower, standing 

 drought well and setting a sufficiency of 

 runners ; leaf large, rather deep green, and 

 fruit very large, irregular, and misshapen, 

 many possessing the "cockscomb" form 

 so characteristic of this variety as to be 

 generally termed the " Sharpless shape." 

 Yet the berries are very handsome, bright/^ 

 scarlet, flesh pink, firm, sweet and good, 

 but with little individuality of flavour; 

 ripens unevenly and inclined to green tips. 



Sliarpless. 



