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Fairly productive, will never be discarded as a home berry 
eo not so well adapted to market purposes. Does well in heavy 
soil. 
_ Sir JoserpH Paxton.—Early to medium, excellent, of English 
origin. Colour dark glossy red. Flesh pale red, firm, and highly 
flavoured. Plant strong and productive, will not suit every district, 
but when it will succeed it is useful for all purposes, does well in a 
light chocolate soil; a good carrier, 
Trollope’s Victoria. 
Sir J. Paxton. 
(Half ‘size.) 
(Two-thirds size.) 
TROLLOPE’s VicTorra.—An excellent English variety, and very 
popular in Australia. Fruit large, roundish, even outlines; deep 
bright red. Flesh pale red, tender, juicy. Plants vigorous and pro- 
lifie; like Edith and Marguerite, adapts itself to varied conditions, 
but requires heavy loam to attain perfection, ripens after these two 
varieties. 
Mex.spa.—aA Victorian strawberry; prolific, bearing also on young 
suckers which makes it almost a continuous bearer. <A profitable 
and good market sort. 
Sunpeam.—aA new Victorian variety of good colour and in other 
respects said to rank with the best. 
New ErrerspurcH.—Tree strawberry. An American sort; does 
well in dry locations. Robust, strong healthy foliage; fruit firm, 
medium, juicy, hangs in bunches. 
Passion Fruits (Passiflora). 
The family of the Passion vine is largely represented in various 
parts of the world. The most commonly grown species for the sake 
of their fruit are the common Passion fruit, Passiflora edulis and the 
Granadilla P. quadrangularis. The name of the genus is derived 
from a fancied resemblance of the floral organs to the cross and other 
emblems of the Saviour’s crucifixion. 
All the Passion vines are rapid growers, and for that reason 
great exhausters of the soil, which should be liberally manured. The 
common Passion fruit vine does well in almost any soil, but better 
