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Bulletin 139. 



Strawberry. 



A small fruit, flattened upon the ends, with a broad and deep cavity, 

 light red, meaty flesh, quality good, with flavor of domestica plums. 

 Ripe here the very last of July, in 1897. Tree strong, upright spread- 

 ing, with large fohage. This variety affords an excellent illustration 

 of the various behaviors of Japanese plums. The tree was sent us by 

 Stark Bros., who named it, but finding it not productive and not so 

 good as Earliest of All, they discarded it. Yet at Cornell this year it 

 was a good plum. It is evidently the same as Uchi-Beni, Ura-Beni, 

 and is the Honsmomo of some. 



120.— IVickson. 



Uchi-Beni and Ura-Beni : see Strawberry. 



Wassu. 



In both tree and fruit indistinguishable from Burbank. Tree from 

 Normand, the introducer. 



WicKSON. — Figures 120, 121. 



Although we have this plum growing, it has not borne; but since 

 we have tested fruit of it grown by E. Smith & Sons, on Seneca Lake, 



