VARIETIES OF RASPBERRIES 425 



ties to evaporate, and Ohio was the variety best suited for this 

 purpose, yielding more pounds to a bushel of fresh fruit than 

 any other black raspberry, as the seeds are large and heavy and 

 the flesh is firm and dry. With the decline of the evaporation 

 of berries, Ohio is passing out. The variety originated about 

 1865 with Hiram Van Dusen, Palmyra, New York. 



Plants of medium size and vigor, productive, upright-spreading, hardy; 

 canes stocky, reddish-brown, numerous, with slender spines mostly at the 

 base. Leaflets 3, small on the old canes, rather light green. Flowers 9-11, 

 in short leafy clusters. Fruit midseason, hemispherical, dull black; drupe- 

 lets of medium size, oval, numerous, cohering weakly; flesh firm, dry, mild 

 subacid; quality rather poor; seeds large, hard. 



666. Plum Farmer. — It is difficult to judge the merits of 

 Plum Farmer, but the indications are that it is to become one of 

 the leading commercial black raspberries for eastern America. 

 While the plants are preeminently vigorous, hardy, healthy, and 

 productive, the chief merits are in the fruits, w^hich ripen early, 

 are large, beautiful, of high quality, and ship well. The first 

 plant was found by L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, New York, in a 

 shipment of raspberries from Ohio, about 1892. 



Plants vigorous, upright, dense, hardy, very productive, healthy; canes 

 stocky, long, numerous, round, bright red, heavily overspread with dense 

 bloom; prickles large and long, thick, strong, straight, sharp, medium in 

 number; branches thick, long, numerous, reddish, densely coated with 

 bloom, with internodes of medium length. Fruit early, easily picked, ships 

 well, one of the best to withstand severe drought; berries large, very black, 

 covered with bloom, firm, uniform, sprightly at first, becoming mild at full 

 maturity, juicy; quality good; seeds small, hard. 



