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easily described but pleasant aroma. In quality it is, to my taste, 

 superior to the huckleberry, and ranks well with the strawberry. I 

 venture to predict that this fruit will become very popular, and fill a 

 real need for a first-class small fruit, ripening just at the close of a 

 strawberr}-^ season." Professor Alwood reaffirms this opinion in a 



Success Juneberry. (Natural size.) 



recent bulletin.* I subscribe to the above encomium . The fruit is 

 excellent whether eaten from the hand, dried in sugar, or otherwise 

 prepared . 



There is one serious difficulty in the cultivation of this fruit, however, 

 which we have not been able to overcome — the incursions of the 

 robins. There is no fruit on our plantation which is so irresistible to 

 the birds as this, and nothing short of actual shooting will keep them 

 away. The only way in which we can save a single fruit is to cover 

 the branch with mosquito netting and tie or sew it on securely, and 

 even then the birds often steal the fruit. It has ben suggested that if 



* BuU. 22, Va. Exp. Sta.,;i09. 

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