PETER HENDERSON & CO.-FRTJIT VINES AND PLANTS 



NEW LATE STRAWBERRY, Jersey Queen. 



The above illustration was a cluster taken from the grounds ofE. W. Durand, on June 30th, 1881. It will 

 be seen by this date, that it is the latest of all Strawberries— fully two weeks behind the Bidwell or other early 

 sorts. Lateness in Strawberries is now a more valuable quality than earliness, from the fact that our markets 

 are abundantly supplied from Southern States, with early sorts. The "Jersey Queen" Strawberry will be 

 particularly valuable for our SUMMER HOTELS, during the hot weather, where the absence of fine fruit is 

 so much a matter of complaint at that time. It possesses all the properties of a first-class variety, bearing an 

 immense crop of the largest fruit, of excellent form and color, and unsurpassed in flavor. The largest 

 berries are firm and solid; and as an evidence of its shipping qualities, we may state that it took 



A First-Class Certificate of Merit at the Boston Horticultural Exhibition, on June 28th, 1881, 



though it had then been picked over 48 hours, and transported from New Jersey to Massachusetts. 



The "JERSEY QUEEN" is one of the freest growing Strawberries, and consequently will be suitable 

 for the poorest as well as the richest soils. We examined the growing crop, on the grounds of Mr. Duband, on 

 July 1st, and never saw anything to compare with it; the ground being literally covered with fruit, n majority of 

 the berries being of the size of the largest Shown above. In company with Mr. Dr-RAND, we made a careful estimate 

 of the crop and found that it would not be less than ten thousand quarts per acre; and at this late date (.July 

 1st), from their fine quality, they freely sold at fifty cents a quart in New York. 



Mr. Durasd has tested this variety for seven years, and, until we purchased the agency of it, has never 

 sold a plant, so that it is now for the first time offered. It is well known that we have few more conscientious 

 or better judges of fruit than Me. Dttrand, and he gives it as his opinion, that it is not only by all odds the 

 best variety he ever sent out, but by far the best in cultivation, and after seeing it on his grounds we roost 

 unhesitatingly endorse this opinion. 



STRONG GROUND LAYERS NOW READY, 



$2.00 Per Doz.; $12 Per 100; $100 per 1,000. 



(Free by mail at the dozen price.) 



