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SELECTIOJS" OF VARIETIES. 



tive," and quality good." It is pistillate, and its only 

 faults, as far as we are aware, are its acidity and its lack 

 of high, flavor, wMcIl we do not consider indispensable 

 for a market fruit. 



JEKKEY'S SEEBLIJS-a 



This originated in New Bedford, 

 about the year 1845 : is of good 

 size, high flavor ; and has been 

 highly recommended by the Massa- 

 chusetts and other Horticultural 

 Societies. We have successfully 

 cultivated it for four or five years, 

 and think its advantages are, its 

 good fair size, bright handsome 

 color and form, sprightly rich flavor, lateness of season in 

 bearing, and sound flesh, fitting it for a first-rate market 

 fruit, or for preserving ; its defects are, its not being 

 the largest size and only a medium bearer. The plant 

 is vigorous, and blossoms pistillate. 



Wilson's seedling-. 



This superior strawberry originated with an excel- 

 lent Scotch nurseryman, of Albany, John Wilson. 

 It was introduced a year or two before it attracted 

 much notice. In the summer of 1857, I think, Mr 

 Cuminings of the New York Observer^ placed on the 



