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Eureka, particularly in being a perfect-flowered variety. The berry is very 

 firm, slightly angular, ripening just after Crescent. I have named it for L. 

 J. Bryant, a skillful gardener of Newark, who writes as follows concerning 

 its origin : " It is a chance seedling which came up on our grounds where 

 we had an old plantation of Sharpless and Crescent ; as it shows in many ways 

 the leading traits of both those varieties, we call it a cross of Crescent and 

 Sharpless. It originated in j 8S5 and for the last five or six years we have 

 planted it quite extensively on all kinds of soils. For vigor, freedom from 

 disease, productiveness, high color, firmness for shipping, and'a berry for all 

 purposes, it leads anything I have found." 



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