STRAWBERRIES - 
United States are the progeny of the Virginian stock 
almost exclusively. And there is no shadow of whim 
or taste in the matter, for the South American race suits 
the European climates, and the North American race 
suits the North American climates ; for in those States in 
which strawberries are in the greatest demand, the 
winters are too cold and the summers too hot for the 
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progeny of Fragaria chiloensis.” ‘This probably is the 
reason why American varieties of strawberries seldom 
attain any large degree of popularity in this country, 
and vice versa. 
In our own times many have raised seedling straw- 
berries, but success has been only to the few. Mr J. 
Douglas raised Loxford Hall Seedling, but it is now 
seldom grown; Keen raised Keen’s Seedling, a variety 
that still finds a place in many gardens; and Bradley 
