Archive image from page 30 of Descriptive catalogue of fruit and. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, shrubs, roses, bulbs, etc. . descriptivecatal1895jewe Year: 1895 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 21 Desirable for home ttse and near-by market. One of the best of the later introductions. Season early to medium. PriiiceSSi—One of a number of seedlings grown by John C. Kramer, of La Crescent, Minn., from mixed seed sown in 1881. It was named by the Minnesota Horticultural Society at its summer meeting held at Minneapolis in 1885. The Princess took iie first prize at that
Archive image from page 30 of Descriptive catalogue of fruit and. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, small fruits, shrubs, roses, bulbs, etc. . descriptivecatal1895jewe Year: 1895 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 21 Desirable for home ttse and near-by market. One of the best of the later introductions. Season early to medium. PriiiceSSi—One of a number of seedlings grown by John C. Kramer, of La Crescent, Minn., from mixed seed sown in 1881. It was named by the Minnesota Horticultural Society at its summer meeting held at Minneapolis in 1885. The Princess took iie first prize at that meeting, although there were fifteen other new seedlings competing. It was exhibited in Minnesota and Wisconsin and invariably took the first prize. Mr. Kramer left a strip two rods long and five feet wide unpicked so that visitors might see how it yielded, and when a member of the State Experiment Station came to see it, four persons picked sixty-one quarts from it in one hour. By actual count three of these qiiarts contained eighteen, twenty and twenty-two berries respectively. The same strip yielded twenty-five quarts the next picking, and fourteen at a still later date. This is by no means its best record, but this is good enough. The following is the substance of a letter written by John S. Harris, of the Minnesota State Horticultural Experiment Station, to the secretary of the State Horticultural Society: 'Growing upon Mr. Kramer's grounds, this new seedling, the 'Princess,' is the most promising strawberry that has ever come to my notice. The plants are hardy, vigorous and enormously productive. It roots deep and stands drought well The fruit is very large, averaging larger than Jessie or Bubach's (No. 5), uniformly perfect in form, ripens all over at once, and holds up its size well to the end of the season. Whenever it has been exhibited in competition it has been awarded a first premium over all others. The yield of fruit in 1888, upon two square rods of ground, was
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