■362 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Agawam, Knox and Wallace are fairly hardy, large, and of good quality; 

 but scarcely productive enough to be popular for market planting. 



Ancient Briton and Triumph Western, are vigorous, very hardy and 

 productive, but quite too small for market unless under high culture, 

 severe pruning and liberal fertilizing. 



Childs Tree has done unusually well the past season, but so far does 

 not seem entitled to the name " /ree," and must continue to improve to 

 win popularity. 



Early Harvest is tender, and needs winter protection, even at the lake 

 •shore. 



Early Mammoth, though possessing good qualities for the market, has 

 so far, failed to win popularity. 



Early King, El Dorado, Erie, Lincoln, Minnewaska, Nevada and Thomp- 

 son, occupy a sort of middle ground between success and failure. 



Fruitland, Lovett, Maxwell and Ohmer are not yet fairly past the pro- 

 bationary stage. 



Kittatinny, Lawton, Snyder, Taylor, Wilson and Wilson Jr. have long 

 been popular with planters, and seem likely to maintain such position for 

 an indefinite period. 



Otis, Piasa, Reyner and Sanford are yet too recent to have given relia- 

 ble indications of their true character. 



Oregon Everbearing is a cut leaved variety from the Pacific coast. It 

 has no value here, save perhaps as a curiosity. 



Of those mentioned, Kittatinny, Snyder and Taylor rank highest in 

 •quality, and are specially desirable for the home plantation, while they 

 are also among the more profitable market varieties. 



Of Dewberries, the Austin is highly praised in the place of its origin, at 

 the south, but it can scarcely be expected to excel or even equal the 

 Lucretia, which was introduced and found successful many years since. 

 Indeed it can scarcely be expected that this fruit can ever become popular, 

 •save perhaps as a means of opening the blackberry season a few days 

 earlier. 



SERVICE BERRY— Amelanchier. 

 SYNONYMS — JUNE BERRY, SHAD BUSH. 



The varieties so far tested here are dwarfs, making growths not more 

 than four or five feet in height. 



Common is so designated since it was originally received without name. 



Success is the variety introduced, several years since, under this name. 

 It differs very slightly, if at all, from the foregoing. 



Mammoth, received more recently, from Indiana, was, at the first, 

 apparently, somewhat more vigorous than the others; but, more recently, 

 these varieties differ very little, if at all-, in this or any other respect. 



A plant, received this season, from the Department of Agriculture, at 

 Washington, as a supposed distinct variety, has not yet grown sufficiently 

 to develop any distinguishing peculiarities. 



Birds are especially fond of this fruit, which, in appearance, is very 

 •similar to that of the native huckleberry, although by no means equaling 

 it in quality. If planted in sufficient quantity, it might become the means 

 of diverting the attacks of birds from other and more important fruits of 

 'the same season. 



