RETAIL PRICE-LIST FOR 1883. 
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Wilson’s Albany. The old standard variety, large, and very productive. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, 75 cents. Per thousand, $4.00. 
President Lincoln. One of the largest berries in cultivation, sweet and good. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. Per thousand, $5.00. 
Forest Rose. Large, a good bearer, early, best quality. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. 
Crystal City. The earliest of all, good quality, not very productive. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. Per thousand, $5.00. 
Orient. A seedling of Monarch of the West, but larger, firmer, and of better color. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. 
Satin Gloss. Very regular in size, medium to large, very productive. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. 
Oliver Goldsmith. A seedling of the Seth Boyden, but of better flavor. 
Per dozen, 4u cents. Per hundred, $1.50. 
Warren. Very productive, fruit large, very firm, sweet and rich, early. 
Per dozen, 40 cents. Per hundred, $ 1.60. 
Mount Vernon. An excellent late market variety, large, excellent quality. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. Per thousand, $5.00. 
NEW VARIETIES. 
Bidwell. One of the earliest varieties, of medium size, and abundantly productive, 
very firm, and of good flavor. 
Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. Per thousand, $5.00. 
Finch’s Prolific. Plant as vigorous as the Wilson in its best days, very productive, 
fruit medium to large in size. Its great value is in its remarkable keeping and 
shipping qualities. Per dozen, 30 cents. Per hundred, $1.00. 
Big Bob. (P). The coming Strawberry and what it must be. It should combine 
the flavor of the Duncan, the perfection and uniformity of the Windsor Chief, 
average as large as the Sharpless, and produce as many berries as the Crescent. 
The originator of the Big Bob says he thinks he has it, and that he will give 
$100 for 100 plants of any strawberry that will beat it for size, quality and pro- 
ductiveness. As compared with Wilson’s, the first picking is two and one-naif 
times larger, the third, three and one-half times and double, the season through, 
under the same cultivation. Per dozen, $1.00. Per hundred, $5.00. 
James Vick. New. Unusually vigorous grower, with heavy, dark-green foliage. 
The fruit is of a bright scarlet color, uniformly large size, and productiveness 
unequaled by any other variety, fine quality ; and not the least important feature 
is the ability of the fruit to stand on the vines a week after ripening, without 
becoming soft, or losing quality. Per dozen, $2.00. Per hundred, $10.00. 
Manchester. (PL Por home use or market, it stands pre-eminent. The plant is a 
strong, vigorous grower, free from rust or blight, wonderfully productive, bear- 
ing uniformly large fruit of a bright glossy scarlet color, and in quality better 
than any other very productive variety. Very firm. 
Per dozen, 75 cents. Per hundred, $3.00. Per thousand, $15.00. 
The Rural New Yorker says of this variety: “The Manchester, regarding which 
we have hitherto restrained any positive expression of opinion, is one of the most 
desirable strawberries we have ever raised, and we have tested not less than 250 
different kinds. Our plants are exceedingly vigorous and productive. We have just 
oxamined them, and find that each plant, on an average, bears 16 peduncles or flower- 
ing stems, and that each flowering stem bears, on an average, 10 berries, giving 160 
berries to a plant. We beg to emphasize that we are speaking of average plants. On 
one plant we counted 22 peduncles and 220 berries in the various stages from ripe to 
just set. This berry is firm, very uniform as to shape, which is roundish conical. It 
ripens in every part and averages above medium as long as it remains in fruit. The 
qualitv when ripe is good, though, like the Wilson, it is sour when it first colors — a 
characteristic, it seems, of all excellent market berries. It ripens with the Sharpless 
and after the Bidwell. * * * It thrives in a light, dry, sandy soil. With 
us it thrives in a moist soil inclining today. Several years ago, from our own tests, we 
spoke highly of the Sharpless, and, soon after its introduction, of the Cumberland 
Triumph. We have never had occasion to regret this, and we have now little fear 
that we shall regret commending the Manchester to our readers as the best market 
berry at present known.” 
