THE AMERICAN STRAWBERRY 187 
maker, just in the same way as was the Keen’s 
Seedling. It practically marks the second 
great step in the advancement of commercial 
strawberry growing. 
From this time on new American varieties 
began to appear, the greater part of them 
being direct descendants of Hovey and the 
Boston Pine. However, the majority came 
from the former. The latter and its immedi- 
ate offspring soon passed out, and to-day in 
American strawberry literature the term 
Pine has been practically lost. This is not 
because the Pine class has become extinct, 
but, quite to the contrary, the Pine class 
has driven out all other classes, and has 
become the dominant one. The Hovey is a 
fine example of a true Pine, with its thick, 
rounded, dark leaves, stocky habit, stiff 
flower cluster, and large, spreading calyx. 
Practically all of our commercial straw- 
berries of to-day are Pines, and they compare 
well in botanical characters with the impor- 
tant Pines of Barnet’s time, such as the Bath 
Scarlet, as well as the Fragaria grandiflora of 
the French gardens of seventy-five or one 
hundred years ago. 
If these things are true, then our straw- 
