. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. llustration was obtained from a sketch of fruit grown by & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., and is a very correct representation of this plant is hardy, vigorous, and prolific. The Captain Jack is a large, fine-flavored berry, very productive and somewhat resembles the Wilson, of which it is said to be a seedling, although it is muchsuperior in size and quality. The plant grows luxuriantly, and is very hardy. Monarc
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. llustration was obtained from a sketch of fruit grown by & Barry, Rochester, N. Y., and is a very correct representation of this plant is hardy, vigorous, and prolific. The Captain Jack is a large, fine-flavored berry, very productive and somewhat resembles the Wilson, of which it is said to be a seedling, although it is muchsuperior in size and quality. The plant grows luxuriantly, and is very hardy. Monarcli of the West.—This is also a largo variety, which has been quite popular andextensively cultivated in the west. It requires a rich soil and better cultivation than manyof the other standard varieties, in order to obtain the best results. Its chief fault is in some-times ha\ing green ends to the fruit, which renders it not quite as available for market pur-poses, although for family use this may not be as objectionable. The illustration of thisbeautiful variety, together with those that follow, are made from photographs of the natural. MONARCH OF THE WEST. size of the fruit, and were obtained from the well-known nurseryman, ^Mr. Wm. Parry, ofCinnaminson, New Jersey. The Longfellow is very productive, ripening evenly, with no green ends, and is abovethe average size, the beriy being long in foi-m. Mr. Parry says of it:— It has furnished good picking every day for twenty days, the fruit being large and fineat the last picking; color dark red: flavor first quality, sweet and rich. Flesh very firm;ships well; grown in same beds with fifteen of the newer varieties, it combines more goodquatities than any other one. The Essex Beauty is remarkably regular in form, which is conical, with a well-definedneck; it is of fine texture and flavor, and ships better than many varieties; color a rich crim-son. It is quite prolific and bears its fruit well up from the ground, ripening evenly
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