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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A Selection of Varieties for Special Purposes. 



1. Flavour or Quality. — Hyatt's Pine Apple ; Hyatt's Eliza ; 

 British Queen. 



2. For General Crop. — Yicomtesse Hericart de Thury ; Sir 

 Charles Napier; Sir Joseph Paxton. 



3. For Size and Appearance. — Waterloo ; Sir J. Paxton ; 

 James Veitch. 



4. For Early Supply. — Noble ; King of the Earlies ; Yicom- 

 tesse Hericart de Thury. The earliest variety proved at Chiswick 

 this season was Crescent Seedling. 



5. For Late Supply. — Elton Pine ; Frogmore Late Pine ; 

 Eleanor. 



6. For Pot Culture. — Keens' Seedling; Sir Charles Napier; 

 La Grosse Sucree. 



7. For Preserving. — Yicomtesse Hericart de Thury; Elton 

 Pine ; Old Scarlet. 



THE MARKET CULTURE OF STRAWBERRIES. 

 By Mr. George Bunyard, F.R.H.S., Maidstone. 

 [Read June 25, 1889.J 



My friend Mr. Barron has given you a full and complete 

 history, and named the best in all the families of garden straw- 

 berries. I have therefore only to deal with their culture on a 

 large scale, for marketing or for the manufacture of jam. In 

 order to make the paper as interesting as possible, I have taken 

 counsel with friends in distant centres of cultivation, and I 

 embrace the first public opportunity of thanking them for their 

 kind replies. The strawberry is a very perishable fruit, and in 

 even the few hours that elapse before it is put on the market, its 

 freshness and piquancy of taste and bright appearance have 

 more or less departed, in consequence of the packing and jolting 

 in transit. This is unavoidable ; and although many growers 

 send the fruit direct in their own vans, still it has the effect of 

 reducing the selection of kinds that will travel to a few varieties, 

 and at the same time of excluding some of the best in flavour 

 from market culture, as appearance is a great factor from a paying- 

 point of view. I have visited the plantations in bearing, and 



