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Philadelphia. — Old, but is still retained in a few col- 

 lections. Pistillate. 



Piper's Seedling. — I haye no information in regard to 

 this yariety further than that it is named in a few 

 nurserymen's lists. 



Reed's Kansas Mammoth.— Xew and little known. 



Russell's Advance. — A good berry but a feeble plant. 



Sucker State. — Xew and promising. 



Walden. — Xew and untested. 



Warren. — Xew; originated with Mr. H. L. Webb, 



Bowling Green, Ky. 



Wilding. — Xew; originated with Mr. A. X. Jones, 

 Troy, X. Y. 

 Wieland. — Xew and untested. 



FOREIGN VA.RIETIES. 



During the past dozen years there has been a yery 

 marked change in the opinion of our Strawberry culti- 

 yators regarding the yalue of foreign yarieties. Xoyel- 

 ties in European catalogues are no longer sought so 

 eagerly as formerly ; in fact^ the importation of Straw- 

 berry plants is now confined almost wholly to amateurs, 

 and I am inclined to think that but few of these gentle- 

 men indulge in the once common practice of sending 

 orders out to Europe for the latest noyelties mentioned 

 in the catalogues of English and Continental growers of 

 this fruit. It is not because new yarieties are not pro- 

 duced as abundantly as eyer, but simply because our 

 horticulturists haye learned from exj^erience that few 

 European sorts will succeed in this country^ and that, at 

 best, they are inferior on the Ayhole to our new improyed 

 natiye yarieties. The old Triomphe de Gand and Jucunda 

 still hold a place in the catalogues and grounds of both 

 amateurs and professioual cultivators, but beyoud these, 

 it is seldom that foreign yarieties are exhibited at our fairs 



