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New Strawberries.— Every season brings 
before the public several new candidates for 
popular favor among all classes of fruits, but 
none are so numerous, we believe, as straw¬ 
berries. A few months ago we were made to 
believe that none could in merit excel the Sharp¬ 
less, Manchester, Big Bob, Old Iron-clad, Long¬ 
fellow, James Vick, Jersey Queen and others 
which were being temptingly held before the 
gaze of a credulous public, and now before we 
c n fairly judge as to whether all these are 
genuine acquisitions or not, the papers and 
catalogues are embellished with still later can¬ 
didates. Among these we note the Atlantic, 
Ulster, Legal Tender, Mrs. Garfield, Park 
Beauty, Ac., and “still there’s more to follow.” 
How can we give them all a place or even a 
trial ? And yet we would really like to become 
acquainted with them and prove their adapt¬ 
ability to our soil and circumstances. 
We have been making some notes of com¬ 
parison among the old new varieties or those 
which have fruited in field culture and will 
venture a few opinions concerning them. This 
has been a peculiarly fitting season to test the 
character of strawberries for shipping purposes, 
it having rained every day without a single 
omission for the past ten days, covering the 
height of the strawberry season. The Long¬ 
fellow seems to “stand up” the best of any and 
ripen large, glossy, hard berries in a continuous 
rain. It is very productive, large, fine flavored 
and altogether one of the very best varieties for 
shipping purposes yet introduced. Next in 
these qualities comes the Windsor Chief, Glen¬ 
dale, Manchester, Crescent and Wilson. The 
Sharpless produces very large sweet berries, 
most excellent for table use, but it will not 
stand for shipment in wet weaiher. One of 
our growers remarked yesterday, that had his 
Sharpless been Longfellow or Windsor Chief, 
it would have made $50 difference to his re¬ 
ceipts for this season, and yet if we were going 
to set a bed for family use alone, we should 
select Sharpless above all others. 
The Tallest Nurseryman in the United 
States, says the Gardener’s Monthly, is Daniel 
Conger, of Wolcott, N. Y., who stands 6 feet 6 
inches. We remember that when, in a critical 
moment during the civil war, he was asked as 
an influential public speaker and a leading pub¬ 
lic man in his community, to go and make a 
speech to favor enlistments; he went, and from 
the platform simply said, “I am going to enlist 
as a private soldier; who will go with me?” 
No wonder the company was immediately filled, 
when they had such a bulwark as this to shelter 
them, and still less wonder when, during the 
war, he hobbled into our office, from a neighbor¬ 
ing hospital, with a bullet through him. Men 
of this size should have two pensions, as surely 
:heir chances of being struck were doubled. 
The Editor of Green’s Fruit Grower, 
in referring to the above says. 
“We are pleased to see Pennsylvania yield the 
honors thus gracefully. To be sure, it places 
the editor of the Fruit Grower, who is only 
six feet one, at a disadvantage, but when cu¬ 
cumbers get plenty Mr. Conger may over in¬ 
dulge, so we have some hopes yet. Not that 
we would desire to kill off Mr. Conger; far 
from it. He has done such good service in 
disseminating the Worden grape, we want him 
even a little longer. But men who have braved 
bullets, bayonets and batteries, often fall igno- 
miniously before cucumbers. Mr. Meehan 
mentions that Daniel Conger was woundt-d in 
the great rebellion. Had we known that, we 
would not have driven such close bargains 
with him. Friend Conger is the Worden 
grape man. He talks Worden, plants Worden, 
eats Worden and dreams of Worden—Worden 
absolutely pure and true. If you should hap¬ 
pen to meet him, you would find he had sold 
you 1,000 or so Worden vines before you knew 
what you were about. He has sold us lots of 
them. Mr. Conger was a law student at Albany 
with our Professor Clark—they were boys 
iogether. Last year we were shown the oldest 
nur-erymac, now we have the tallest. The 
youngest and smallest will now report at this 
■ ffio'g also, the fattest and leanest, the one with 
the *iio-t money and the least.” 
Mr. Conger’s advertisement having frequently 
appeared in Seed-Time and Harvest, we 
take it for granted that our readers will be in¬ 
terested in the above on account of the personal 
history given, and as we know that the Worden 
is a good grape we hope they will relieve him of 
any surplus vines he may still have on hand. 
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