60 The Strawberry Book. 
it still more full and more accurate; and I shall be much 
obliged to any one who will help me in this matter. Of 
the following varieties I have tested a great many, es- 
pecially the foreign kinds, having fruited some of them 
four years, and others fewer seasons; others I have care- 
fully observed in the plantations of friends and acquaint- 
ances; and for descriptions of the remaining varieties I 
have had recourse to the best authorities I could com- 
mand. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
The following abbreviations have been used. in this 
‘list, viz. :— 
Downing. . . . . - Downing’s Fruits and Fruit Trees of 
America. Edition of 1869. 
Hov.Mag.. . . . . Hovey’s Magazine of Horticulture. 
. Boston. 
Hort. . . . . . . Horticulturist. New York, 
Rev. Hort... . . . Revue Horticole. Paris. 
Fuller. . 2... . © Fuller’s Small Fruit Culturist. 
Alb. de Pom... .« Album de Pomologie. Paris. 
Lond. Hort. Soc. Trans. Transactions of the London Horticul- 
tural Society. 
Duham.. . . . . . Duhamel. Traité des Arbres Fruitiers. 
Jar. Mus. . . . . . Jardin Fruitierdu Museum. (Quoted by 
the volume, as the plates are not num- 
bered.) 
Fig... . . . . . Figured. 
A star (*) prefixed to the name of a variety shows that that va- 
riety has been rejected by the United States Pomological Society, 
