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A STRAWBERRY AFTERMATH. 



half its usual number of berries. The last season was 

 favorable here, and Parker Earle produced as much fruit 

 as the imperfect-flowered sorts, but I am satisfied that 

 under unfavorable circumstances it will not do so well. 

 Every fruit-grower ought to give it a trial. Enhance 

 ought to be added to this list, even though many object 

 to its cockscombed, acid berries. Plants of this variety 

 are healthy and productive, yet are not likely to become 

 popular for the above reasons. Farnsworth and Brunette 

 have quality to recommend them. Brunette reminds me 

 of Prince of Berries, but yields much better. Possibly it 

 will prove to be a very profitable market sort. Van 

 Deman is a good market sort, but falls a little below the 

 size required in this locality. Woolverton and Saunders 

 may also be mentioned favorably 



Some new imperfect-flowering sorts worthy of favor" 

 able mention are Greenville, Barton Eclipse and Martha. 

 Bubach, Haverland, Crescent and Warfield are planted 

 in this state more than any others, and are generally well 

 liked. The trouble heretofore has been to find some 

 good pollen-bearing variety to plant with them, but we 

 can now overcome this difficulty. 



Without going into details to show upon what grounds 

 my opinion is based, I submit the following list of varie- 

 ties that seem to have little or no merit : Alabama, 

 Hatfield, Westwood, Bessie, Dew (our plants may not be 

 true), Yale, Oregon Everbearing, Felton, Walton, Belle 

 of Lacrosse, Swindle, Gen. Putnam and Porter. Cres- 

 cent came to me under the name of Boynton, 



There was some contention last season regarding gift- 

 crates. Some growers have refused to ship to certain 

 markets because the dealers refused to return the crates, 

 some are using gift-crates extensively and prefer them, 

 and some buy up the gift-crates of the dealers and use 

 them in the local markets. The demand of the dealers 

 is so strong that it will not be long before nearly all 

 growers will be compelled to adopt gift-crates. Cheap 

 quart-baskets are generally used, and but few growers 

 make any effort to get them back for use the second time. 

 — W. J. Green, Ohio Experiment Station. 



THE NEW VARIETIES IN OHIO. 



Despite the unfavorable season, Parker Earle, Barton 

 Eclipse and Princess have done remarkably well, and, I 

 think, will be classed with the Bubach, Haverland and 

 Warfield as good and productive varieties. I set out 50 

 potted plants of Beverly last July, and they produced a 

 fine lot of large, beautiful and delicious berries. It re- 

 minds one of the old Miner Prolific. Standard was some- 

 what disappointing. It is productive but not very at- 

 tractive. Muskingum impresses me favorably ; it is pro- 

 lific, and the fruit is large and fine-looking. Lovett 

 Early is a favorite with all who see it. The fruit is of 

 good size, fine-looking, and produced in abundance. 

 Yale is not productive here. Leviathan is very large, 

 fairly productive, and of pleasant flavor, but lacking in 

 firmness and color, Gillespie and Auburn, from southern 

 Ohio, are promising varieties, which, I think, will do well 

 anywhere. Saunders and Woolverton, from Canada, are 

 good. Saunders is rather tender skinned, and is some- 



times misshapen, but it is so productive, so large and so 

 brilliant in color that I consider it one of the best. 

 Woolverton remains in bloom until its first berries are 

 ripe, and as it has perfect blossoms, it will be a good 

 variety to plant with pistillate sorts. It is also large, 

 productive and beautiful. 



The plan of burning over beds as soon as the crop is 

 secured must commend itself to all who give it a fair 

 trial. Besides destroying many insects and leaving the 

 plantation perfectly free from weeds, this puts an end to 

 all rust for that season. As is generally concluded, the 

 very finest fruit may be grown on fall-set plants, and one 

 of the conditions is that they never be allowed to stop 

 growing. — M. Crawford. 



A great many of the newer varieties of strawberries 

 fall short of the mark in field-culture, though they may 

 be good in a garden where one can give them the highest 

 culture and close care. I have but few of these new va- 

 rieties. Parker Earle and Great Pacific were the only 

 ones that distinguished themselves as market berries. 

 Owing to the wet spring the Warfield, Crescent and sev- 

 eral of the small-leaved varieties rusted very badly. 

 Warfield, Haverland, Eureka, Cumberland and Parker 

 Earle can be thoroughly recommended for home use and 

 market. 



We set strawberry-plants with a spade thrust straight 

 into the earth, using plants with roots not less than 6 

 inches long ; thus set, such plants are absolutely safe 

 from drouth. I plant strawberries 2 feet by 4 feet apart, 

 and never lose more than 6 plants out of 1,000. The 

 plants are set in sod and are never troubled with grubs, 

 although there seems to be plenty of them present. — W. 

 B. Fulton. 



THE NEW STAWBERRIES IN INDIANA. 



Edgar Queen is the only one of the new ones that I 

 have tested this season. It pleases me very much. The 

 plant is vigorous and hardy, and the fruit is large and in 

 most respects fine. 



Haverland, Warfield, Bubach, Edgar Queen and 

 Gandy are among the best varieties for general purposes 

 here, but we need a good pollenizer. What is it to be ? 

 Parker Earle has some good traits, but in other respects 

 is deficient. I fear the plant will not be vigorous enough. 

 — W. H. Ragan. 



Strawberries were good and plentiful here this season. 

 The plants were generally free from rust notwithstand- 

 ing the very wet weather, and the main crop was mar- 

 keted in good condition, and sold at fair prices. Bubach, 

 Haverland, Cumberland and Crescent are the sorts most 

 generally grown. Haverland will, no doubt, soon dis- 

 place Crescent, but Cumberland will retain its place for 

 some time, on account of its value as a fertilizer for pis- 

 tilate kinds, and for its many other good qualities. 

 Parker Earle is probably the best of the new varieties. 

 It is very late, enormously productive, or fair flavor, and 

 moderately firm, of attractive color and large size, and a 

 strong grower. Its inability to mature all its fruit and 

 to produce many new plants appear to be its only de- 

 fects. Middlefield and Gillespie produced a few fine 



