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Avith A. II. Grefe, Marlboro, New York, in 1900 and was dis- 

 tributed in 1910. 



Plants tall, vigorous, upriglit, very hardy and productive; canes numerous, 

 stocky, prickly, dull greenish-brown. Fruit early midseason, large, regular, 

 hemispherical, dull, rather dark red; torus large, rather rough, clinging a 

 little too tenaciously to the fruit; drupelets large, irregular, cohering weakly 

 so that the berries crumble; flesh a little soft, tender, sprightly, fair to 

 good; quality not above mediocre; seeds small. 



654. Ranere (Fig. 243). K. strigosus. St. Regis. — Tntro- 

 duL-ed as an everbearing red raspberry, Ranere is chiefly valu- 

 able for spring-bearing, five-sixths of the crop being borne in 



early summer and the remainder in the au- 

 tumn. Aside from its being a double-crop- 

 per, there is not much to recommend the 

 variety. The berries, while handsomely col- 

 FiG. 243. Ranere. ored, are variable in size, running rather 

 small, and are mediocre in quality. The 

 plants are hardy, but only moderately vigorous, and are very 

 susceptible to crown-gall. The variety was long grown in New 

 Jersey by a colony of Italians, and w^as generally distributed 

 about 1912. 



Plants of medium size, vigor and productiveness, hardy; canes numerous, 

 slender, brownish-gray. Leaves rugose, glabrous above, pubescent beneath 

 with a spiny midrib which is glandular at its base. Flowers 5-6 in a long, 

 open, leafy cluster. Fruit early summer and autumn, rather small and 

 variable in size, light red, hemispherical; drupelets of medium size, round, 

 cohering poorly, the berries often crumbling; flesh rather soft, mild and 

 insipid; quality poor; seeds small. 



655. Royal Purple. R. strigosus X -K. Occident alis. — While 

 the berries are not so inviting in either appearance or taste as 

 those of the standard Columbian, Royal Purple may have a 

 place in commercial berry-growing because of the great hardi- 

 ness of the plants and the lateness of the ripening period. The 

 crop ripens one to two weeks later than that of Columbian, and 

 has a remarkably long season, lasting until early blackberries 

 are ripe. The variety originated with G. H. Giston about 1898, 

 at Bristol, Indiana. 



Plants vigorous, upright-spreading, very productive, very hardy; canes of 

 medium length, numerous, dark reddish-brown, with few thorns mostly at 



