OF CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 
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ELEANOR. — With me this is a fine grower, somewhat resembling the Cres- 
cent. The foliage is healthy, without a trace of rust: medium early, medium 
gize, good color and firm. It has a perfect blossom, and, judging from fruiting 
it one season, it is a good market berry, but not quite productive enough, and 
not as early as it was claimed. The introducer describes it as follows: 
"For a long time fruit growers and amateurs alike have been looking for a 
strawberry that. was both large and very early, possessing all the necessary pro- 
perties of vigor and productiveness of plant, and firmness, fine appearance and 
good quality of fruit. In Crystal City we have earliness, but its berries are 
insignificant: in several other varieties large size, but they all ripen in midsea- 
son or late. The Eleanor is second to none in earliness, ripening with Crystal 
City and in advance of all others, in size rivaling the Sharpless, retaining its 
size well to the end of the season; in productiveness surpassing the famous 
Crescent: in firmness equal to the Wilson; is of a bright scarlet color and has 
few equals in quality. Among other valuable properties of the Eleanor may be 
mentioned its uniform size, color and shape, never cox-combed, and coloring 
evenly all over with no green tip, a strong staminate or perfect blossom, and 
especially vigorous, a field of it after picking season being as green as a field of 
clover when all other varieties are sere and brown. 
