OF CHOICE STRAWBERBY PLANTS. 
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BRUNETTE— The Brunette is a delightful berry. 1 have fruited it now for 
two years and am greatly taken with it. In color it is a rich deep red like port 
wine, not only all over the surface, but all the way through, and when you 
break one in two the fragments of the torn tissue sparkle in the sunlight like 
splinters of ruby crysials. It is a shapely berry, too, of a uniform dome-like 
outline. If a few Brunette berries were to be mingled promicously with a large 
number, made up of various other kinds, the Brunette could readily be picked 
out, their beautiful dark-red color and symmetrical outline distinguishing them 
from the rest. They are quite firm berries and I should think would stand ship- 
ping weir. I have had no experience as to the latter fact, howevever, for my 
Brunettes were too good to sell, and just right to use at home or to give to one's 
best friends. 
In respect to taste, the most striking characteristic of the Brunette as I had 
it, was its sweetness, in which quality it is far superior to any other strawberry 
within my knowledge. 
Mr. G. Cowan, the originator, with whom it has fruited seven years, has de- 
scribed it thus: This variety, in its combination of delicious flavor and beauty 
