Among the latest "truly wonderful " introductions is the Lida. Judging by a cut before us made by Blanc, and therefore not likely to be exaggerated, it appears to be a good one, notwithstanding the startling epithet quoted. Usually in large-bunched strawberries we have one or two large, and all the rest small. As this is represented, there are at least half a dozen that would be regarded as large. It is a pistillate. There seems to be a reaction in favor of pistillates by market growers who have land enough to put some pollen-bearing variety between the rows. In the old time trouble came from amateurs buying pistillate kinds, forgetting or not knowing that they had to get another kind to fertilize the first.