Modern strawberry growing . Perfect. SeasonâMedium. Fruit stems numerous. The fruit is conical in form. Size, , light red outside and inside. Qualitygood, sub-acid. Yield, good. Fine appear-ance. In the cross Hunn x Ideal it was hopedto unite or combine ideal form with lateripening. The results, however, showed thatthe plants retained the characteristic foliageof the Hunn, being dark green, growth dwarfbut quite vigorous. Runners strong andrugged but very few produced. The fruit wasregular in form, colour, dark red and , dark red. Flavour, very acid. A cross of Wm. Belt
Modern strawberry growing . Perfect. SeasonâMedium. Fruit stems numerous. The fruit is conical in form. Size, , light red outside and inside. Qualitygood, sub-acid. Yield, good. Fine appear-ance. In the cross Hunn x Ideal it was hopedto unite or combine ideal form with lateripening. The results, however, showed thatthe plants retained the characteristic foliageof the Hunn, being dark green, growth dwarfbut quite vigorous. Runners strong andrugged but very few produced. The fruit wasregular in form, colour, dark red and , dark red. Flavour, very acid. A cross of Wm. Belt x Wild made withthe idea of frost resistance produced quitegood results. The plants retained the char-acteristics of the wild, setting many plantsand making a thick, matted row. Frostresistance quite pronounced. Colour of the fruit is bright red, seeds deepsunken with the wild characteristic, sharpcorrugations above seeds. Flavour quite pro-nounced of the sweet wild quality. Sizelarger than wild. Some measure from | to. o OS U o .S a- 5 3 <05 g 3 ii £ .s P.
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