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rounded ends; flowers not large, the calyx lobes glandular, smooth 

 inside; leaves medium, long-pointed, leafstalks glandular. Early 

 for the group, ripening even in Minnesota by the middle of 

 August. One of the best varieties. Found in Morman Rapine, a 

 few mileis below La Crosise, Wisconsin, and introduced by E. 

 Markley, La Crosse. G. 



6. Chippeway. — Emit small to medium, deep red, the skin 

 medium thick; flesh firm and sfweet; stone free, small; strongly 

 convex on the sides and pointed, roughish; leaves medium, rather 

 strongly pubescent beneath, leaif-stalk* glandulax. Has gained 

 no prominence so far as I know. 



7. Oottrell. — Emit lai'ge, ix)und-oblong, ried, skin thin; flesh 

 rich and agTeeable; cling; leaves large, comparatively thin and 

 smooth, leaf-stalks glandular. Medium season. (Seedling raised 

 by K L. CottreU, Dover, Olmsted county, Minn., and introduced 

 in 1888 by O. M. Lord, of Minnesota City. 



8. Deep Creek. — Medium size, round-oblong and pi'ominently 

 flattened and bearing a conspicuous suture, dull purple-red, very 

 g'lauoous, skin thick; flesh flrm, and very sweet and good; stone 

 free, sides convex, long pointed, roughish; flowers rather smaU,. 

 short-stalked, the calyx globes glandless and hairy inside; leaves 

 medium, nearly smooth, stalks glandular. Medium season. A 

 Kansas wild variety, introduced by Abner Allen. C. 



9. De Soto. — Large to very lai*ge, round-oblong, pui*ple-red 

 with moderate bloom, skin thick; flesh medium firm, good; stone 

 cUng, rather large, somewhat convex, rounded at the ends, slightly 

 roughened; leaves medium, stalks glandular. Medium to late. 

 One of the most popular varieties. Eound wild on the Mis- 

 sissippi at De Soto, Wisconsin. Generally introduced by Elisha 

 Hale, Lansing, Iowa, 18G3 or 1864. Eignred by Professor S. B. 

 Green in Bull. 5, Minn. Exp. Sta. See No. 3, above. C. 



10. Eorest Garden. — Large, round, orange overlaid with rose- 

 purple, skin medium thick to thin; flesh medium Ann to soft, good; 

 stone cling, convex on the sides, rounded at the ends, slightly 

 roughened; leaves medium, rather smooth, glands none or reduced 

 to a single small one. Medium season, ripening in Minnesota the 



