
Variety Tests of Strawberries. 
NOTES ON STRAWBERRIES FOR 1894. 
In the following report on the varieties of strawberries grown 
at this Station a description of varieties fruited here for the first 
time in 1894 is given, together with a few brief additional notes 
on varieties reported on in previous years. This is followed by 
a comparison of the different kinds as regards their productive- 
ness and season of ripening. This report is based wholly on 
records of the plants as grown at this Station. 
It seems hardly necessary to state that this report is offered 
simply as a contribution to our knowledge of the value of the 
different varieties considered therein, and of their relative merits 
when compared with each other. It is conceded that no kind of 
- strawberry, or other fruit, succeeds equally well in all localities, 
and the fact that a variety takes first rank in one section of 
country does not necessarily demonstrate its ability to do the 
same thing in every locality and with every combination of soil 
and climatic conditions. Nevertheless, the comparisons of varie- 
ties ‘made at this Station in previous years have given results 
remarkably in accord with the general records made by these 
varieties throughout the State, thus demonstrating the value of 
the Station’s reports on small fruits to those who are interested in 
small fruit culture. The success of a particular variety here does 
not prove its ability to succeed elsewhere, yet it may be taken as 
an indication of its value and that it is worthy a place on the 
trial list in other localities. The popular demand for such infor- 
mation as is contained in this Station’s annual reports on small 
fruits is sufficiently indicated by the rapidity with which the 
editions of the small fruits bulletins are exhausted. 
The strawberries grown here are on rather stiff clay loam, 
well tile-drained and made fertile with stable manure. They 
were formerly tested both in hills and in matted rows, but now 
are grown only in matted rows. During the first season they 
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