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fail to be sold, if offered in our markets, on account of their 
color. These popular notions are due of course to igno-. 
rance of the best varieties of fruits, and will be eradicated 
when people become more-familiar with choice kinds. 
Productiveness and hardiness. of the vine, with bright 
color and ‘solidity of the fruit, seem now all that is re- 
quired in a market berry, and even more than is required, 
for the Wilson’s Albany has built up and maintains a 
wonderful reputation in spite of its poor color. 
It is a very firm berry, as.far removed in this respect 
as possible from many kinds, notable among which is 
the Brooklyn Scarlet —a delicious variety, but so tender 
that a single layer of berries set, away on a plate over 
night will lose their shape by morning. La Constante 
is remarkable for its firmness, and Underwoed’s Seed- 
ling, raised from La Constante, is quite wonderfyl for 
its firmness and keeping qualities, the La Constante. type 
being a very persistent one, as regards not only solidity, 
but shape and flavor also. Its beautiful shape reappears, 
a little modified, in the President Wilder. 
One word of advice to the amateur may not be out 
of place here, viz.: if he should obtain a seedling worth 
naming, let him be sure the name he gives it has not been 
already appropriated to some other strawberry. Neglect 
of this precaution is already leading to confusion. We 
have two Elizas, — Rivers’s and Myatts’s; two Eclipses, 
— Prince’s and Reeves’s ; two Emilys ; two Charles Down- . 
-ing’s, — Downer’s and De Jonghe’s; two President Wil- 
der’s, — De Jonghe’s and Wilder’s; two Riflemen, — one 
raised by Roden and the other by Ingram ; two Paulines, 
—one a seedling of Prince’s and the other a seedling of 
Dr. Nicaise; two Globes, — Myatts’s and De Jonghe’s ; 
* two Cornucopia’s, — Prince’s and Nicholson’s ; and so on to 
the end of the chapter. There are some other names too 
near alike; as the Rubis of Dr. Nicaise, and Nicholson’s 
‘Ruby; Napoleon and Napoleon III.; to say nothing of 
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