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THE STRAWBERRY. 



WOODSIDE. 



Originated in New Jersey. One of the Black Cap family. Canes 

 light crimson or dark scarlet. Spines few and scattering. 



Fruit very large, globular, black, with little bloom, sweet, juicy, and 

 good. Produces a second crop in autumn. (Fuller.) 



Woodward. 



Raised by Dr. Brinckle. This is one of the smallest varieties, 

 though larger than the ordinary wild Raspberry. 



Fruit round, sometimes roundish ovate, crimson, ripens quite early. 



Yellow Antwerp. 

 White Antwerp. Double -Bearing Yellow. 



The Yellow Antwerp is a large, light-colored Raspberry, and, with 

 a high cultivation, a good sort, but greatly surpassed by the Orange. 

 Canes strong and vigorous, light yellow, sometimes with many bristles 

 or spines, often nearly smooth. Productive. 



Fruit large, nearly conical, pale yellow, sweet, and of good flavor. 



Yellow Pearl. 



A variety of the Yellow Cap. More vigorous, very productive, 

 often produces a fall crop. 



Fruit darker in color, with a slight bloom, and more sprightly in 

 flavor. 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE STRAWBERRY. 



Fragaria (of species), L. Rosacea, of botanists. 

 Fraisier, of the French ; Erdbeerpflanze, German ; Aadbezie, Dutch ; Pianta 

 di Fragola, Italian ; and Fresa, Spanish. 



The Strawberry is the most delicious and the most wholesome of all 

 berries, and the most universally cultivated in all gardens of temperate 

 climates. It is a native of the temperate latitudes of both hemispheres, 

 — of Europe, Asia, North and South America, — though the species 

 found in different parts of the world are of distinct habit, and have each 

 given rise, through cultivation, to different classes of fruit. 



The name of this fruit is by some understood to have arisen from the 

 common and ancient practice of laving straw between the plants to keep 

 the fruit clean. Another reason of the origin of the name comes from 

 the custom of children stringing the berries on straws. 



In the olden times the variety of strawberries was very limited, and the 

 garden was chiefly supplied with material for new plantations from the 

 woods. Old Tusser, in his " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," 

 points out where the best plants of his time were to be had, and turns 



