New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 761 



RASPBERRIES. 



The Station seedling, June, has now been 

 June. tested long enough in different parts of New 



York State to prove it quite equal and often 

 superior to the best older varieties. The plants are as hardy and 

 as healthy as those of its two well-known parents — Loudon and 

 Marlboro — and are more vigorous. Comparatively few suckers 

 are produced, and these are placed well apart and thus better able 

 to mature the crop. The yield is heavy and is well distributed over 

 a long season, which begins the earliest of any of the seventy vari- 

 eties growing at this Station, ripening, as its name indicates, in June. 

 The fruit resembles Loudon in color — a bright handsome red — 

 and averages larger than Cuthbert, but is more spherical in form. 

 The berries hold up in size unusually well throughout the season, 

 ship well and are high in quality. We expect to see this variety 

 become one of the most profitable red raspberries grown. 



How long it will maintain its good character 

 Plum Farmer, and high position is a question, since black rasp- 

 berries are subject to many diseases and varieties 

 frequently run out; but at present, Plum Farmer is the best fruit 

 of this type grown on the Station grounds and very favorable reports 

 are received of its behavior in other sections. The plants are vigor- 

 ous, healthy and hardy, since they were little injured by the unusually 

 severe winter of 1911-12. The fruit is large, about the size of Gregg, 

 of good color, high quality and well adapted to shipping. Its 

 season is early as it ripens a week or more in advance of Gregg. It 

 is a splendid new fruit, well worth testing. 



CURRANTS. 



Though a comparatively new variety, the 

 Perfection. Perfection currant is already of commercial 

 importance in New York State, but it deserves 

 the attention of all growers of small fruits. It is of an attractive 

 red color, slightly larger in both berry and cluster than the Fay 

 currant, and superior to Fay or Cherry in flavor and quality. The 

 berries are uniformly large to the tip of the cluster, and the base 

 of the stem is free from berries, making it very easy to pick. 



The productivity, attractiveness and quality 

 Diploma. of the Diploma currant make it well worth plant- 



ing in this State. Its berries are borne in long 

 clusters, light red, with a thin transparent skin, a very juicy pulp 

 slightly tinged with red and mild in flavor. It must be handled 

 with care because of its thin skin and juiciness, but when picked 

 and packed properly will, doubtless, ship long distances in good 

 condition. 



