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i. Rubus phcenicolasius. 



Name. 



Japanese Wineberry 



Remarks. 



Worthless except for the beaaty of 

 its bloom and foliage. 



Notices are appended of the more desirable varieties, also of other more 

 recent ones not yet fully tested. 



BLACK OR YELLOW GAPS. — TIP-ROOTING. 



Beebe — A yellow variety, very productive; of fair quality if used 

 promptly, but if allowed to become overripe the color becomes dark and 

 forbidding, with loss of flavor. 



Rundell (the name of the originator), a more recent seedling from south- 

 western Michigan, is merely a reproduction of the Beebe, with the same 

 general characteristics. 



Cromwell has now been several years before the public, and seems to be 

 winning a good reputation as an early blackcap, ripening nearly with 

 Tyler, and surely quite as early as Doolittle. 



Doolittle was the forerunner, introducing the blackcaps to cultivation. 

 It even yet maintains a creditable standing among the various rivals 

 which have since arisen to contest with it for popular favor. 



Earhart produces a light crop at the usual blackberry season, and also 

 a second crop in autumn, upon the canes of the current season's growth. 

 It may be desirable in the home plat, as a means of supplying this fruit 

 out of the usual season. 



Farnsworth, a recent variety from Ohio, has only fruited here this sea- 

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