Sixteen St. Martins have filled a quart basket, and it holds its 
large size to the last picking. Fourteen berries have heaped a pint 
basket at the twenty-fourth picking of the season. It is excellent for 
canning, and it retains its high quahties in the jar. 
It has a perfect blossom, and it makes an abundance of long, strong 
runners. One plant set in April had fifty well-rooted plants on Novem- 
ber first of the same year. 
This great strawberry was not developed by strictly scientific 
processes of pollenization, but is the result of a seed sown with some 
others at Trumansburg, N. Y., in 1909. The seeds were taken from 
well-ripened, typical specimens of the following varieties: Brandy- 
wine, Ridgeway, Miller, Glen Mary, Commonwealth, and New York. 
The resultant seedHngs were gradually cut down to the one that is now 
the St. Martin. 
The original work on the St. Martin was done in New York state, 
but some years ago Mr. Graton moved to Massachusetts, bringing the 
plants with him. In 19 19, it received the silver medal at the Straw- 
berry Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Altogether eleven years have been required to bring the new berry 
to a point where it would be put on the market, and it seems to me that 
the faithful, conscientious application which Mr. Graton has given 
the task, entitles him to the reward which he now seems likely to re- 
ceive." 
Propagating One fears that some of the best of the old Double Rockets will 
the ^o^^l® soon be things of the past. That lovely old flower, the Double Scotch 
White Rocket — greatly superior to the Double French Rocket — is 
becoming very scarce. To secure a stock it is necessary to cut down 
the plants without allowing them to flower until a fair number is ob- 
tained. If the plant is allowed to flower, it is difficult to obtain any 
offsets; only very few are produced under specially favorable condi- 
tions, and sometimes none at all. If the flower spikes are cut soon after 
they are seen, offsets or cuttings will form. These should be taken off 
and put into sandy soil and covered with a hand-hght or frame. A 
dozen or more plants of the Double Scotch Rocket will form a de- 
lightful feature of a border in summer; the pure white flowers are 
fragrant. S. A. M., Popular Gardening. 
"Fillers" It is only as the tuHps fade that we acutely realize the gaps that 
the winter has made in our borders, gaps that few annuals can fill, for 
so few of them have the foliage beauty of the lost perennials. In one 
of Miss Jekyll's books she suggests ruthlessly chopping off the heads 
of such perennial seedlings as escape the eye of the gardener during 
one season, a,nd confront him the next, sturdy and unashamed, in 
the very front of the border when they should be in the back. The 
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