Excerpt from The Illustrated Strawberry Culturist
It is now twenty-five years since I wrote the first edition of the Strawberry Culturist. At that time but little attention had been paid to the cultivation of this best of all berries, and, with the exception of an occasional basket or crate of the Hovey and Wilson, New York markets were mostly supplied with the little Crimson Cone and Scotch Runner raised in New Jersey.
From time to time new varieties had been introduced at home and from abroad, and by copying all the names found in both European and American nurserymens catalogues, I was enabled to make a list of nearly five hundred varieties, of which only a few survive. Among these may be named the Hovey, Wilson, Trioniphe de Grand, Lennig sWhite, Downers Prolific and the Monthly Alpines, but, with one or two exceptions, these are very sparingly cultivated. The others have been discarded for inferiority of size or flavor, lack of productiveness, want of adaptability to a wide range of climate and soils, or for other good and sufficient reasons, and their places have been filled by varieties supposed to be better, and in such numbers as to confuse seekers after the best. But which is or are the best of all the varieties known would be a difficult question to answer; for the one that gives entire satisfaction in one section often proves a failure in another, and only experiments or close observation will teach one how to choose.
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