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with from fifteen to twenty-four berries per cluster; stems and pedicels long, slender; 

 berries adhere well, medium to large, often one-half inch across, roundish to slightly 

 oblate, attractive light bright red; skin smooth, thin, tough, translucent; flesh reddish, 

 medium juicy, fine-grained, tart, sprightly; very good; seeds intermediate in size and 

 number. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Indiana is a new variety which for two years in succession has 

 been a leader among nearly one hundred varieties under test on the 

 grounds of this Station. The plants do not multiply as rapidly 

 as could be wished but are up to the average in this respect. It 

 blooms late — a valuable character in localities subject to late 

 spring frosts. The season is medium early. The blossoms are 

 perfect. The plants thus far are healthy and although only medium 

 in vigor have yielded well on the heavy clay soil at this Station 

 producing in 1913 at the rate of 10,436 quarts per acre. It is 

 reported to be more productive on heavy than on light soils. But 

 few varieties surpass Indiana in size of fruit, this character holding 

 up unusually well throughout the season. Some of the earliest 

 berries are " coxcombs " but the prevailing shape is distinctly that 

 of the wedge. The color is somewhat variable at first but later 

 becomes a uniformly dark, glossy scarlet. The quality is first- 

 class. The variety gives promise of being one of the best of shippers, 

 having firm, meaty flesh. 



Indiana is of recent origin. It was produced by Mr. H. J. Schild, 

 Ionia, Michigan, in 1905. It is a cross between Red Cross and a 

 seedling, the parentage of which was Red Dawn X Ionia Market. 

 The new variety was introduced by Mr. A. B. Sibert, Rochester, 

 Indiana, in 1911 as a " fig type " strawberry. 



Plants medium in number, vigor and height, healthy, productive; leaves rather 

 email, dark green, smooth, glossy; leaf -stalks somewhat slender, with abundant 

 pubescence; flowers perfect, bloom rather late, variable in size; pedicels short, slender 

 Blightly pubescent; petals average six to seven in number, broadly roundish, tapering 

 to broad, blunt claws; stamens numerous, short; receptacle medium in size, broadly 

 conical. Fruit-stems short, thick, prostrate, much branched; pedicels long, slender; 

 calyx small, flat, adheres well to the fruit; fruit matures medium early, season rather 

 long; berries large, quite uniform in size which is retained till near the close of the 

 picking season, wedge-shape, with furrowed surface, not necked, obtuse at the apex, 

 dark attractive glossy red, coloring evenly; seeds numerous, variable in position; 

 flesh well colored to the center, medium juicy, firm, mild subacid; good in quality. 



