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indifferent, for where we have so many good kinds we 
neéd not trouble ourselves about a merely tolerable straw- 
berry. Dr. Johnson’s question, addressed to Boswell, 
“Sir, how can you eat a foleraéle egg,” may well be 
transferred to strawberries. 
For, market culture the list of good kinds must neces- 
sarily be somewhat limited. It is not easy to find all the 
characteristics of a good market berry united in one kind. 
The plant must be hardy, vigorous, and an abundant 
bearer, or else it is not worth growing; the fruit must be 
large, handsome, and, if possible, sweet, and of good 
flavor. But absence of flavor or presence of acid will 
not prevent a variety, good in other regards, from being 
popular in the market. Witness the Wilson, of which, 
sour and poor as it is, sixty-four hundred quarts have been 
raised on five eighths of an acre. 
Many kinds too numerous to detail have struggled hard 
to get and hold a place among market varieties, but have 
failed from one reason and another, for the capabilities of 
a strawberry are put to a hard test when it is raised for 
the market. If it has a weak side it will surely show it 
under the searching trial it has to pass. Perhaps as good 
a list of market kinds as can be made would comprise 
Jenny Lind, Hovey, Wilson, the Brighton Pine, Jucunda, 
and Triomphe de Gand. I can see that many readers will 
object to more than one kind here, but yet I believe that 
that is as good an average as can be struck. In Massa-_ 
chusetts, after. a review of last year’s market, we are 
tempted to add the Lady of the Lake to-this list, for it is 
a good market berry here, and overwhelmingly productive 
on certain soils. ; 
I do not give merely my own opinion, — which might 
not be worth much, — but that of experienced cultivators 
and growers, who have seen many new seedlings rise and 
fall, when I say that the President Wilder will undoubt- 
edly become a standard market variety. It has all the 
