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this direction ; as a result, there are hnndreds of varieties 

 named and offered for sale^which are not worthy of any 

 consideration. In addition to these worthless new sorts^ 

 old and well known varieties of merit will often appear 

 in a garden, which the owner has no knowledge of ever 

 having purchased or planted. * Their presence may be 

 readily accounted for upon the supposition that they 

 have been introduced with other sorts, or a few plants 

 have come, attached to the roots of some tree or shrub 

 received from a nursery or neighbor's garden. The extra 

 care and attention naturally bestowed upon these waifs 

 when found growing in some out-of-the -way place, has a 

 tendency to strengthen the finder's belief that they 

 are really new, because the care given them usually 

 produces good if not great results. The Romeyn Seed- 

 ling is one of these waifs, which I pronounced Triomphe 

 de Gand the first time the fruit and plants were shown 

 in New York, and although I was roundly abused for 

 my presumption, the Romeyn has at last found its proper 

 place as a synonym of the old and well known Triomphe 

 de Gand. The so called Maximillian, or Mexican Ever- 

 bearing, is another variety which caused a good deal of 

 excitement among Strawberry growers a few years ago, 

 and although the story told of its discovery in Mexico and 

 introduction into the United States, was enough to raise 

 doubts in the minds of thinking men, still there were 

 not wanting several, who had been generally aoknovvledged 

 as authorities in such matters, to indorse and describe 

 this variety as new and worthy of the highest praise and 

 most extended cultivation. Two years after, this variety 

 passed into the hands of practical cultivators, and it was 

 generally admitted to be nothing else than the old 

 Monthly Eed Alpine of Europe, a variety which has been 

 in cultivation nearly or quite one hundred years, and 

 known by at least a score of different names. 

 . Nearly all the varieties mentioned in my " Additional 



