At the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Association, Mr. Galusha stated that the Wilson plant was not so robust as many other varieties of the strawberry, such as the Crescent, Piper, Cumberland Triumph, Kentucky, and many others of like constitutional vigor. The Wilson, and some other varieties of strawberries, upon the same, or adjoining and similar soil, where fifteen years since vines of Wilson were healthy and productive, are now feeble, make but few plants, and give but one-fourth, at most, the fruit they formerly gave, and this, too, where the best plants are used in planting, the ground enriched with manure, and good care given in the cultivation. Mr. Galusha then cited several instances where large raisers of the Wilson had abandoned that strawberry on account of its great deterioration by time. There were exceptions to this rule, however; the Wilson in some localities in Wisconsin, Western Michigan and Southern Illinois, the plants there being vigorous and healthy. The Wilson strawberry, when allowed to ripen upon the vine became a rich fruit; but the Bidwell, Capt. Jack, the Sucker State and the Piper, when shipped to large distances, arrived in about as good order, and were much superior in taste.