Excerpt from Allen's Strawberry Catalogue: Spring 1898 Rusy - This comes highly recommended from Illinois, and is believed to be a seedling of Crescent and Sharpless. It is a chance seedling that came up with a number of others in an old quince orchard where an old strawberry bed had been plowed under before the crop was all harvested, owing to the low prices of the fruit at that time. The originator says: I had quit growing strawberries for market some years ago. But thinking this seedling worthy of general planting, I decided to try it in field culture on a scale large enough to show its character as a shipper. I therefore planted several acres of it and a few rows of other standard varieties. Such as Capt Jack, Warfield. Bubach. Haverland. Greenville, etc. For comparison. The result has been that Ruby has proved itself to be a better berry in every way than any of these or later introductions up to the present time. All plants no matter how late they take'root in the fall. Fruit the following Spring. Its good points are: Strong healthy plants: large staminate blossom: uniformly productive; fruit of large size; dark red color clear through: firm enough to ship well; a fine keeper after being picked: and of the highest quality. If it has any fault I have failed to discover it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.