A New Strawberry of a New Type — The Patagonia 17 
Prolific, Monarch, Marshall and some of our native California berries, but 
no striking or very unexpected results were observed until the second gen- 
eration, when among the very numerous hybrid seedlings under test was 
found this unique berry, which was at once recognized as the grand prize 
which has at last been produced, after such expense, labor and care during 
the past twenty-five years. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW HYBRID STRAWBERRY, "THE 
PATAGONIA." 
Of the twenty standard varieties of strawberries now growing on my 
home places the "Patagonia" commences to ripen first and continues to bear 
the longest. 
Well grown plants are about one foot in height and twelve to eighteen 
inches across. The leaves are large and unusually thick and firm, with a 
thin silky down, and are never injured by sunburn, where other varieties 
are either seriously browned or wholly destroyed. 
The berries grow on stiff branching stalks, which, while generally hold- 
ing the berries free from the ground, yet do not expose them to the hot sun, 
so that in warm, dry weather the berries keep here in best condition a week 
or more on the vines. The berries are uniformly large, single berries some- 
times weighing an ounce each at the beginning of the season, decreasing 
somewhat in size during the heat of mid-summer, but are even larger in 
the fall if the runners have been removed ; fine scarlet color with a hand- 
some pale yellow flesh. The seeds are so very small as to be almost imper- 
ceptible. 
The berry though firm and a remarkably good keeper is of most ex- 
quisite quality, melting in the mouth with a sweet pineapple, strawberry 
and cream like flavor, and can be freely eaten by those who cannot eat the 
common acid strawberries now grown. 
The calyx is extraordinarily large. This keeps the berries apart, giving 
an air space, making them keep much longer than ordinary berries and add- 
ing a peculiar fresh beaut}- when offered in boxes or baskets. 
But above all, this new strawberry is a home berry. Easy to raise, 
producing great quantities of large, firm, sweet, delicious, pineapple-flavored 
berries without the usual care necessary to produce good strawberries. It 
is the first of a new race which has come to make strawberry growers rejoice. 
Everyone who has seen the "Patagonia" has been surprised and de- 
