192 MODERN STRAWBERRY GROWING 
the native wild fruit. Itis a fact that some 
people would not think they were eating 
strawberries without a rather tart flavour 
being given, while others have gone so far in 
their demands that the berries must have 
more of the sweet wild flavour, that breeders 
have tried to obtain a berry of large size, 
containing one eighth to one half or more of 
the wild in its makeup, and this wild quality 
must be given in increased sweetness of the 
berry. 
As well as the flavour, the quality of the 
flesh is a personal taste, whether the flesh 
is fine grain, of one solid colour or with a dark 
rim and light toward the centre, having also 
the quality of mashing easily (making a poor 
shipper but a good home berry), or whether 
it is coarse flesh of solid colour or not, and a 
good, hard shipper. There is generally some 
codrdination between the poor shipper, a 
fine-grained berry with increased sweetness, 
and the good shipper, a coarser berry with 
increased acidity. 
As was said just before, these factors of 
personal taste in strawberry raising are 
greater for the home grower, as his gar- 
den is the direct result of individual likes 
