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wondrous boauly, and exquisite tlavor. The fruits are 
j)ale red in eoloi’. 
Mr. Alb(‘rt F. Fttei- has exp(‘riinented ([uite largely with 
this raee of plants and has produeed a niunher of meri¬ 
torious varieti(‘s. His great prize in this line he calls 
the Trehla strawberry. This berry is accredited with 
having sev(m distinct types of strawberries in its ancestry. 
l)iit the ])asis of the type shows plainly the Peruvian 
Peach strawberry. The Trehla plant is a ram])ant vig¬ 
orous grower and forms enormous stool ])lants from 15 
to 25 inches across, according to age, and throws u}) great 
nimd)ers of fruiting stems, and has been accredited with 
a knowm yield of 25,000 quarts per acre. It is a true 
evergreen plants as well as an everhearer. Mr. Etter de¬ 
scribes “the fruit as medium size and slightly rough, 
rather than smooth with depressed seeds. It is very 
solid, heavy, firm, and built all in one piece. It picks 
readily without the husk and the color is red to very red 
and glistening. The fruit is just moderately acid, and is 
a good dessert herry, wdth a refreshing flavor of its owm. 
Finest and best canning strawberry in the world. No 
amount of boiling wull break the Trehla strawberry up. 
The cooked strawberries being a rich red and having a 
flavor second fo none which I have ])roduced.” “To my 
mind it marks a distinct type and a breaking aw^ay from 
the hereditary type—a moving out into a field wdiere the 
laws of hereditary that govern plant life will have less 
sway over the offspring, and we will get new qualities in 
texture and flavor that were quite beyond us heretofore.” 
We will add wnth our limited experience of the Trehla 
strawberry for one season that it is one of our best ever- 
hearing sorts, and will excel Progressive, Superb and 
Americus strawberries in yield. 
The Beaderarena is one of Mr. Etter’s productions and 
is a pink herry of extraordinary size, berries sometimes 
flattened or fan shaped and sometimes nearly three inches 
across. Regarding flavor Mr. Etter says “it is of an 
unique sw^eet and delicious flavor all its own. This is 
a Point Arena beach hybrid crossed with the Reader 
Wood strawberry. It has a shiny, glossy dark green 
foliage.” 
Ettersburg No. 80, a very sweet high flavored berry of 
large size, hold, striking foliage of a deep glossy green, 
fruit cherry red in color. Reports from Texas and the 
Southern states indicates that it is the best flavored 
strawberry ever growm there, and also it surpasses any 
other variety for standing long continued droughts. 
Bose Ettersburg, large fruits, yellow^ to rose red in 
color—most deliciously flavored! foliage like Ettersburg 
No. 80. This variety will also grow" and thrive where 
other varieties w ould die out by heat and drought. Rose 
Ettersburg has yielded at the rate of eight tons per acre 
without irrigation. A highly perfumed variety. 
Ettersburg No. 112. ^Description by Mr. Etter.) The 
herry of this fruit has that deep glossy a])pearanee from 
the beach ])arentage. Berries very large and horjie in 
very large trusses. It has that ])eculiar high (|uality in 
flavor that is found only among the hybrids of Chilensis 
blood. 
Ettersburg No. 76. (Description l)y Mr. Etter'). This is 
a Mitchells Early-Rose Ettersl)urg seedling crossed with 
the Cape Mendocino beach strawberry. It is a unicpie 
sort that has a very large berry and a truss that is some¬ 
times 18 inches high. The old sell about crossing the 
strawberry with the milkweed and thus getting straw¬ 
berries and cream off of the same plant is here worsted 
by about two points. For in No. 76 we have a straw'- 
berry that is almost red, while the flesh of the ripe fruit 
is a creamy yellow and very sweet, as if sugared, and to 
cap the joke it has a distinct banana flavoring. The 
variety is (juite productive and one of the curios in the 
strawberry family. 
Ettersburg No. 94. (Descri})tion by Mr. Etter). In No. 
94 w e have one of the eccentricities in strawberry hy¬ 
brids—a w bite alpine strawberry crossed with a hybrid 
Rose Ettersburg-Galifornica. With all the white blood 
in its parentage it is an intense brilliant scarlet that fairly 
glistens, while the seeds are a deep golden yellowy some¬ 
times shading to crimson on the sunwmrd side of the 
berry. I have ahvays rated it as about the most beauti¬ 
ful berry I have among my hybrids. In flavor it is also 
eccentric. None of its parents w"ere acid berries yet it 
is strongly acid. 
However, it is a good market and table berry. 
Ettersburg No. 121. (Description by Mr. Etter). No 
relation to anything in cultivation, and exceeds all other 
varieties in high quality and solidity. It is one that al- 
w^ays tastes good regardless of how many other varieties 
one may have tasted. It is a hybrid of the wild Alpine 
crossed with the Gape Mendocino beach strawberry and is 
a good all around berry. It is vigorous and has fine 
glossy green foliage. The blossoms are produced in 
great profusion and appear later than those of most any 
other variety. The berries are almost globular and deep 
glossy red, and red to the center. As it grows here it is 
of good acidity and sweet as w^ell and of a flavor that 
asks nothing of odds from any berry I ever tasted. 
Regarding Mr. Etter’s work in producing his maiwelous 
new" hybrid strawberries he says “The new blood that is 
blended in the Ettersburg strawberries is the Peruvian 
beach or sand strawberry and the Gape Mendocino beach 
strawberry, both of these are classed as Fragaria Chilo- 
ensis, but they differ w"idely in type. A third species 
used in my work is Fragaria Californica (Galifornia Al¬ 
pine or Wood Strawberry) another species used is the 
w"ild aljiine strawberry of Europe. Along with the 
blended blood of these four heretofore unused species 
there has also been used the various types among com¬ 
mon cultivated varieties. The results that I have ob¬ 
tained by this original wmrk that has been going on for 
over thirty years have been the creating of strawberries 
of distinctly new" and unique ([ualities, such as flavors 
and berries of solid or cling core type. This type of 
berry gives tbe canner a strawberry that will not break 
up in process of canning. Another feature added in some 
sorts is a calyx cu]) or hull that readily parts from the 
berry w ith little abrasion of tissue. New^ colors and late 
blooming and holding the fruit clear of the ground are 
other unique (jualities developed; but perhaps the great¬ 
est and most valuable departure from the ordinary type 
is the great vigor and constitution of the plants. The 
most noticeable difference is tbe heavy leathery foliage, 
as different as that from the ordinary type of strawberry 
foliage as canvass differs from gingham. This type of 
foliage alone would make the plant drougth resisting, 
but the root system of the plant is as remarkable as the 
