This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
The strawberry correspondents of the various agricultural papers are out in full force with their observations during the past season. As a general rule, the favorites of the past two or three seasons have proved good for nothing; but it is gratifying to know that in almost every case the writer has some new kind in his eye, which will give us all that we lose in such once-favored berries as Sharpless, Bidwell, Crescent, and so on. Of the new names suggested we should judge there are about fifty which " are likely to prove all that can be desired in a popular-strawberry." •
 
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