Archive image from page 40 of Descriptive catalogue of the Jewell. Descriptive catalogue of the Jewell Nursery Co . descriptivecatal1894jewe Year: 1894 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 21 Dcsirabk- tor home iiso and near-by market. One of the best of the later introductions. Season earh' to medium. > PrincesSo—One of a number of seedlings grown by lohn C. Kramer, of La Crescent, Minn., from mixed seed sown in 18S1. It was named bj the MiriWsota Horticultural Society at its summer meeting held at Minneapolis in 1885. The Princess took'tlie first prize at that meeting, although there were fifteen othe
Archive image from page 40 of Descriptive catalogue of the Jewell. Descriptive catalogue of the Jewell Nursery Co . descriptivecatal1894jewe Year: 1894 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 21 Dcsirabk- tor home iiso and near-by market. One of the best of the later introductions. Season earh' to medium. > PrincesSo—One of a number of seedlings grown by lohn C. Kramer, of La Crescent, Minn., from mixed seed sown in 18S1. It was named bj the MiriWsota Horticultural Society at its summer meeting held at Minneapolis in 1885. The Princess took'tlie 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 sixtj'-one quarts from it in one hour. By actual count three of these quarts 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 hardj', 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 groimd, was at the rate of 825 bushels per acre. T
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