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Bismarck is medium season, prolific, has large fruit and vigorous plants 

 but an acid taste and some object to it on account of its sourness. The 

 Brandywine is a perfect flowered sort, medium season, a fair producer, 

 grows well but is subject to mildew. The Cloud is a pistillate variety, 

 ripens in mid-season and is a grower. The fruit is moderately firm, the 

 flavor mild and sweetish. Earliest, is a staminate, later than the Ex- 

 celsior, is a good producer but somewhat subject to rust. Excelsior is 

 perfect flowered and makes healthy plants. The fruit is firm and ripens 

 from three to ten days earlier than the others ; it is noted for its acid 

 flavor and is considered to be a good canner. Gardner, is the best pol- 

 linator in the opinion of many, while a few say they do not like it for 

 anything. Glen Mary, is a medium season, variety and productive ; the 

 berries range from medium to large in size but it is somewhat subject 

 tO' rust and has scant foliage ; is a good home variety. Heffin, or Hefif- 

 lin, has made a splendid record so far ; it has a long and late season and is 

 a good producer, the fruit being large and of excellent flavor ; the foliage 

 is light green in color but seems to be healthy. Kansas, has a medium 

 late season, the fruit being small to medium and the quahty fair. 



Other varieties we are trying are the following : Klondike, which 

 is of medium season, berries medium in size and not a good producer. 

 Lady Thompson, medium season of ripening but lasts a long time ; 

 size, medium to small, color light, and firm enough to ship well. Mc- 

 Kinley, medium season of ripening, fruit medium in size and not very 

 firmi; a staminate variety which seems to be a good pollinator. Monitor, 

 is perfect flowered, has large fruit which is abundant and a fine flavor; 

 plants healthy but fruit too soft to ship well. Nick Ohmer is of medium 

 season, perfect flowered, fruit large, not a good producer, but fruit is 

 firm and plants make a fairly good growth. Rough Rider, is a staminate 

 variety which makes a poor growth although plants seem to be healthy ; 

 considered to be useful only as a pollinator. Seaford, begins to ripen 

 medium early but has long season of fruiting ; rather large fruit, but 

 only medium as a producer ; fruit is firm enough to ship well ; a fairly 

 good variety with Rough Rider or some other good pollinator growing 

 with it as it is imperfect flowered ; bad to mildew. Senator Dunlap, 

 staminate variety of medium season, a good producer ; fruit varies from 

 medium to very large in size ; texture firm ; a vigorous grower and 

 promising commercial variety. 



Sample, is an imperfect flowered variety, of medium to late season ; 

 a fairly good producer ; fruit large and firm and medium good in quality ; 

 promises to be a good commercial variety where it succeeds. Splendid 

 is a staminate variety which fruits in mid or late season, is productive 



