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do with its advance in public favor, for in many soils it is 
somewhat deficient in flavor. 
: To sum up, we may consider it certain that people who 
love strawberries well enough to buy and eat berries so 
poor as some of our market varieties are, would gladly 
apply themselves to the education of their taste on better 
kinds, if they could get them. 
The Chili strawberries, although some of them are ex- 
tolled for amateur culture, are of little value. They are 
large, coarse, very apt to be hollow, with soft, poor-flavored 
flesh. They have been so thoroughly intermingled with 
other species, that it is very difficult to say of certain named 
kinds that they aré or are not partly Chilis. 
. The Chili Orange and Wilmot’s Superb are pretty good 
types of this class. The Lucida Perfecta I have fruited 
three seasons, and find it worthless in this climate. It is 
set down as a Chili, or a hybrid-Chili, in the catalogues. 
The Souvenir de Nantes and Madame Eliza Vilmorin I 
know only by reputation. 
Hautbois strawberries find very few admirers in this 
part of the country. La Belle Bordelaise, Royal Haut- 
bois, and perhaps Bijou des Fraises are the best of the 
class. Hautbois strawberries seem to be equally neglected 
abroad. 
It is a common question to ask a person who has tested 
many varieties of strawberries what kinds he recommends 
for general cultivation, and the writers in the horticultural 
journals occasionally favor us with a revised list of the best 
sorts. Yet to make out a catalogue of six varieties for two 
different localities is a very difficult task. Still some gen- 
eral idea, may be given to a beginner of the kinds it will 
be well for him to get together; and he may have those 
pointed out that will bear neglect, and those that need. 
careful culture. ; 
If but one variety is desired, and if that must be one 
that will bear neglect, and produce a tolerable crop some- 
