54 The Strawberry Book. 
‘ how, the Wilson stands first. It is too sour to eat; but itis 
an abundant and unfailing bearer, and generally sells well. 
Downer’s Prolific, as I know by trial, will bear decent 
crops after three years’ steady neglect, and is better than 
the Wilson. French’s Early requires but little care, and 
is pretty good. 
If, however, strawberries are desired for a family supply, 
and can have decent garden culture, then the list of valuable 
kinds lengthens till a choice becomes embarrassing. For 
an early sort, Jenny Lind holds ‘its place, coming in one 
week before Hovey’s Seedling — and a week, I may say, 
makes all possible difference both with the buyer in the 
market and the gardener who is impatiently waiting for 
his first picking. 
After this come a host of well-proved kinds: Hovey and 
its noble offspring the President Wilder, La Constante, 
Jucunda, Russell’s Prolific, —a,good berry, but a liftle out 
of favor just now, —Brighton Pine, Agriculturist, Tri- 
omphe de Gand, and others which I need not specify. . 
Some rows of Jenny Lind for a-first crop, a bed of 
Hoveys with a row of Brighton Pine for a fertilizer, a 
row of Triomphe de Gand and another of Jucunda for a 
late berry (both of these two kinds in hills), will give a 
good assortment for an ordinary garden. 
La Constante, in a deep, rich soil, comes in late, and 
makes a fine show, paying well for a little extra care, al- 
though it is sometimes perverse and fickle. For a white 
berry, Lennig’s White (grown in rows, in a good soil, 
with its runners clipped) stands at the head, and is really 
a luscious fruit — no better than the Bicton Pine, perhaps ; 
but this latter kind is too poor a grower and-too shy a 
bearer to be much raised here. 
The amateur grower needs no advice. It is his mission 
to test everything that comes to hand, setting the good on 
one side —a scanty list it may be — and the bad and in- 
different on the other. I class together the bad and the 
