. Descriptive catalogue of specialities : fruits, vines and plants. Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Dayton. Abridged Catalogue of Specialties. 31. All old sorts—Cumbeiiand, Crescent, Sharpless, Wilson, etc. Westei^n Union, A new and distinct variety. Our own. It stands without a rival; large size, perfect form, fine flavor, vigorous grower, and un- excelled productiveness, and alwavs brings the highest price in market. Blossom perfect. Often bears a partial crop in October, as well as in sjoring. trf)e (£omtny Berry.—In coming
. Descriptive catalogue of specialities : fruits, vines and plants. Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Dayton. Abridged Catalogue of Specialties. 31. All old sorts—Cumbeiiand, Crescent, Sharpless, Wilson, etc. Westei^n Union, A new and distinct variety. Our own. It stands without a rival; large size, perfect form, fine flavor, vigorous grower, and un- excelled productiveness, and alwavs brings the highest price in market. Blossom perfect. Often bears a partial crop in October, as well as in sjoring. trf)e (£omtny Berry.—In coming before the public Avith a new variety of fruit, and especially a Strawberry, we shall not be sur- prised at any amount of prejudice and oppositiox it will be likely to provoke, both from persons who have been so often disappoint- ed in many new kinds, as most of us have been. Others are in- terested in other kinds, and some are opposed to any more new varieties, because we have too many already. In all these there is more or less reason and justice, and yet in spite of them all we venture to introduce another candidate in a new seedling Straw- berry originated in 1883: found peeping through the snow, one cold April morning, on the banks of the Miami River, near John- son's Station, Ohio, by Mr. Fred. Withoft, who gave it the name of Western Union, it having been found close beside a tel- egraph i^ole of the Western Cnion line. At a meeting of the Montgomery County Horticultural So- ciety, where the fruit was on exhibition, several ladies said the}" had made it a point for years to gather wild Strawberries near where this plant was found, and that they bore abundantly every year, were of large size, and delicious to the taste. Mr. J. J. Fromm, an extensive small fruit grower and a mem- ber of the Committee on Small Fruits for the Montgomery Coun- ty (0.) Horticultui'al Society, said he preferred to plant Cumber- land, Western Union and Sharpless. The Montgomery County
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