. Catalogue of small fruit plants, strawberries a specialty : spring of 1883 / Joseph D. Fitts. Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs. Seneca Queen.—One of the most productive varieties, fruit of a very dark crimson, of good flavor, and for a home berry or near market has few equals. Should have a place in every collection. The plant is a strong, vigorous grower. 40 cents per doz.; $ per 100; $10 per 1,000. Gripsy.—(P.)—Said to be the acme of beauty and flavor, to those who are willing to pay the price for it in high and careful culture. Very uniform an
. Catalogue of small fruit plants, strawberries a specialty : spring of 1883 / Joseph D. Fitts. Nursery stock Rhode Island Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs. Seneca Queen.—One of the most productive varieties, fruit of a very dark crimson, of good flavor, and for a home berry or near market has few equals. Should have a place in every collection. The plant is a strong, vigorous grower. 40 cents per doz.; $ per 100; $10 per 1,000. Gripsy.—(P.)—Said to be the acme of beauty and flavor, to those who are willing to pay the price for it in high and careful culture. Very uniform and attractive in ap- l)earance. 40 cents per doz.; $ per 100. Jersey Queen.—(P.)—One of the best late varieties; said by the originator to be not only the best variety he has ever .sent out, btitby farthe best in cultivation. Peler Hen- derson says thi.'i so faristhestrawberry parex- cellence. It obtained the first prize for the best quart of any variety at the exhibition of the New York Horticultural Society, in June, 1882, where at least thirty other vari- eties were ofl^ered in comp. tition. Very pro- ductive and of the larjrest size, while the fla- vor is unsurpassed. $1 per dozen; $5 per 100. Manchester.—(P.)—For home use or mar- ket it stands pre-eminent. The plant is a strong vigorous grower, free from rust or blight, wonderfully productive, bearing uniformly large fruit of a bright scarlet color, and in (juali'v better than any other very productive variety; very firm. The Rural New Yorker says of this variety : "The ^Manchester, regarding which we have hitherto restrained any positive ex' pression of opinion, is one of the most desirable strawberries we have ever raided, and we have tested not les-" than 250 different kinds. The only thing that can be said against it is that it is a pistillate, and must be grown near perfect flowering sir's, which for many farmers is attended with trouble or perhaps inconvenience. Our plant'* are exceedingly
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