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Title: Hooper's Western fruit book: a compendious collection of facts, from the notes and experience of successful fruit culturists, arranged for practical use in the orchard and garden ..
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Hooper, E. J. (Edward James), b. 1803
Subjects: Fruit-culture Fruit
Publisher: Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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^, in 1851. Tender, juicy, rich, with fine, highflavor. Too tender for long distances to market. Desira-ble for private gardens^ and markets near town. Eequiresvery strong and numerous fertilization—nearly plant forplant. Too tender and delicate in texture to keep andpreserve its flavor so long as many kinds. It is not con-sidered equal to Burrs New Pine in flavor, but as fine asany other. Methven Scarlet. Flower, Pistillate; form, round,coxcomb; size, 2 ; quality, 2; color, dull sca.rlet; season,four or five days after general strawberry season. Eemarks.—Scotch. Strong grower. Sometimes pro-duces large crops. McAYOYS JSTo. 1, or Extra Red. Flowers, pistillate;form, round, uniform; size, 1; quality, 1 ; color, scarlet. Eemarks.—Originated in Cincinnati, in 1848. Flavoragreeable, rather acid. Immensely productive. Likely
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MiddUtOTi.. milxcf^ * C? OJu O. Nataral Size. STRAWBERRIES. 293 to become a good market fruit. Has not a very high fla-vor. Eecommended by Messrs. Buchanan, Ernst, andWarder, for the locality of Cincinnati. Vastly hardy, Peabodys I^ew Seedling. Flowers, hermaphrodite;color, rich, deep crimson ; form, irregular, and somewhatcompressed ; beautiful, attached to the calyx by a polishedcoral-like neck without seeds ; size, 1 (of the largest, mea-suring six and seven inches in circumference) ; use, table ;quality (not yet known here) ; flavor and flesh, firm, melt-ing, and juicy; season (unknown here). Eemarks.—It is said by the proprietor and originatorthat the fruit is borne on tall foot-stalks, is of the mostexquisite fine flavor, and bears transportation better thanany strawberry ever yet cultivated. He further statesthat as a proof of the keeping qualities of this new straw-berry, on the morning of the 9th of May, he packed acase of the berries, took them to Columbus, six miles, inhi

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  • booksubject:Fruit_culture
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