Has anyone ever heard of Marshall strawberries? When I was a child (yes, a loooooong time ago), we picked berries for money every summer. One day the field owners and several other adults gathered in anticipation as they told all of us picking to start on a different field. This was a new type of berry they were trying. The name of the new berry was Hood. I still remember, as I was picking, popping one of the best looking of the new berries into my mouth. I thought "Oh, they are going to be so disappointed, these don't have much taste at all." Of course, much to my disappointment, this was only the first of many new berry types to come down the pike, none with taste anywhere near the Marshall. I now know that the Marshall was more susceptible to virus and less hardy for shipping than the newer berries. I wish I had some anyway.

-- Dianne Wood (woodgoat@pacifier.com), January 21, 2002

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no - but in my distant past I picked strawberries in Marshall, Arkansas. wonder if there's a connection?

-- B. Lackie (cwrench@hotmail.com), January 21, 2002.

You might try following up on this report, The Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, at Strawberry Hill Park, 7650 N.E. High School Road, has a small display patch of Marshall strawberries -- the kind sent to Victoria, B.C., in the 1930s to serve the visiting queen of England. Article by CECELIA GOODNOW, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), January 21, 2002.