New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-31

was killed outright and the other 90
manned that he lived but q day or two,
The rest of the band fed with terror
now thoroughly convinced that he was
not man, but q demon. The sur.
vivors and the dead Chiefs were short
~ after brought in by reinforcements
of the regiment. Donovan was hardly
ever again opposed during the contin.
uance OF the war.-Rochester IN. ~
Union and advertiser.
The History Of the Strawberry.
An interesting article on the straw.
berry in the Getstle,nas's Magazine
contains the following historical infor-
nation about that fruit: 1--WE have no
evidence at all that the strawberry was
cultivated by either the Greeks or Ro-
mans: During the long lapse Of years
the perry hourished in our English
woods-a food for peasants abiding
the time when its leaves should become
symbolical of the higher grades of no.
bllity, and its fruit strike the fancy OF
an INSCRIPTIONS Prince, when wadine
to q throne through q deep current Of
blood. We, of course, allude to tie
well-known episode in the play of
Richard Ill., in which Gloucester,
when intent on murderous designs
against Hastings, turns to the Bishop
of Ely. and SAYS:
my Lord Of Ely, when was last in Holbo,n,
4saT rood strawberries in your garden there:
do beseech you, send for some of them
Now, this incident is taken almost yer.
batim from Holinshed, and proves
that Strawberries must have been cul-
tivated in gardens as early as 1880.
Just fancy = garden of forty acres on
the north side of Holborn, nearly op-
posite the spot where Albert the Good
now INCREASINGLY bows his compliments
to the passer-by on the Viaduct!
"Another allusion to Strawberries in
Shakespeare occurs in Henry w. act
!: scene 1, when, speaking of the young
King the Bishop Of Ely says:
90 The tIe strawberry s1o"' underneath the net
when the wild wood strawberry is of
course referred to.
early in the seventeenth century
the American Virginian strawberry
was introduced into both France and
England, and probably into Western
Europe generally. The newcomers do
not appear, however, to have thriven,
and nearly two centuries had still to
elapse before, by means of seedlings
and hybridization, our gardeners pro-
duced the magni6centlv improved
fruit which now grati6es all our senses
but hearing; for who has not wished,
during the strawberry season, that we
heard of the fruit little less in the
vernacular Of the costermonger? To
the ante American period, by the ref
erence to the habitat of the strawber-
~, if not by its date of composition,
belongs the nursery ballad in which the
man of the wilderness is subjected to
the whitening retort, Astounding in At
tic salt, but not more severe than such
an ultra-marine question deserved:
80 The man of the wilderness asked mo
i How many Strawberries grew in the sea-;
answered him a. thought good,
a. many a. red heEzings grew in tho wood"
"Henry Buttes, in his very interest
! ing work. .Dyet's Dry Dinner (1599>,
does not allude to strawberries at ali.
though most other fruits are men
toned. Caspar Bauhin, in his 'Sinax.'
mentions but five varieties of the berry.
1t is only in the catalogue of Jean
Robin, botanist to Louis KILL, that the
Virginia strawberry is first specified by
name 1624).
During the course of the eighteenth
century no marked improvement took
place in strawberry culture. The Fra
ga''ia virqinia,1a maintained its posi-
ton, but it did not prove penerallv
successful, nor did the Fraqaria chill
e''sis for some time after its introduce
ton into Europe. This strawberry
was brought to France in the year 17l6.
Seven plants were shipped from Chill,
and were kept alive during the voyage
to the Old World by water which was
saved from the limited quantity m eted
out to the ships company and passen-
gers owing to q shortness of supply.
This Chill strawberry was probably
transported by the S parish cclonists
from Mexico, and its original habitat
was the western shores of the American
continent. This variety is probably
the parent of the California species.
and from this so-called Chill strawberry
most of our modern favorites derive
their origin, and the pine-Aavored straw
berries in general certainly traos de.
scent from this stock.
j" With the beginning of the present
century the strawberry began to assume
the proud position which it now MAIN
tains among English fruits. The first
marked improvements produced were
seedlings from American species: The
Roscberry in 1910, the Downton in
1916, the Grove End Scarlet in 1920,
Keen's Seeding in 1928, the Elton Pine
in 1928; while Myatt followed shortly
afterward with his Pine, Prince Albert,
Eliza and British Queen. Since the
appearance of these improved kinds
various seedlings and by birds have been
produced, which it would exceed our
space even to enumerate. Some have
established q great and permanent
reputation, while others have been
raised which have been found not to
repay cultivation. | /
The fruit was called by us English
by the name of strawberry long be-
fore any patent slug-traps or truss
securers were thought expedient for the
well-being of the fruit. 1t has been
irretutably proved that the origin Of
the syllable straw is the Anglo. Saxon
sstrahen, to strew, to scatter, and that
the fruit is called strawberry or stray
ing berry, from the erratic nature Of
it's runners ~
The Game That S Jeems'' Played.
THERE was an awful time in . rsrm-
house near Pontiac last night. We
haven't received any particulars, but
lsolemnly believe that . certain husband
whose front name il .. Jeems,' Wa
made to wish he dnever been born into.
this deceitful world. 80
There arrived on the WeGflgrl.n a.
press yesterday morning 8 nerytiis. Y
swlry, bsack-eyed woman 81 forty, Mo