134 '^^'^ SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 



Ralph. Occidentalis x Strigostis. i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 109. 1900. 



On trial at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada in 1900. Plants vinpro- 

 ductive; fruit of medium size, firm; good quality; late. 



Rancocas. 1. Rural N. Y. 43:635- 1884. 2. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 63:685- 1893. 



A chance seedling fovmd on the fann of Albert Hansell, Rancocas, New Jersey, in 1877. 

 William H. Moon, Morrisville, Pennsylvania, introduced it in 1884. As grown at this 

 Station its chief characteristic was its earliness. The entire crop ripened in a few days. 

 Plants dwarfish, weak, unproductive; suckering freely; foliage pale green; fruit small to 

 medium, soft, juicy, of fair flavor; very early. 



Ranere. i. Elizabeth Nur. Cat. 10. 1916. 2. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt. 47. 1916. 3. Hed- 

 rick Cyc. Hardy Fr. 279, fig. 1922. 



St. Regis. 4. Rural N. Y. 60:787, fig. 295. 1911. 5. Lovett Cat. 17, fig. 1917. 



Introduced as an everbearing red raspberry, Ranere is chiefly valuable for spring 

 bearing, most of the crop being borne in early summer. It appears in some of the nursery 

 catalogs as the earliest of all red raspberries, but it is later than June and one or two other 

 sorts on the grounds of this Station. Aside from its being a double-cropper, there is not 

 much to recommend the variety. The berries run small, are mediocre in quality, and are 

 variable in both size and color. The plants are hardy, usually vigorous, but very suscep- 

 tible to crown-gall. Ranere is supposed to have originated in New Jersey a score or more 

 of years ago and was grown for a time by a colony of Italian gardeners. About 1912, the 

 J. T. Lovett Nursery Company, Little Silver, New Jersey, introduced the variety under 

 the name St. Regis. It has since been advertised by many nurserymen under both names, 

 although now the name "St. Regis " is rarely used. 



Plants of medium height and vigor, attractive in appearance, rather upright, hardy, 

 lacking somewhat in productiveness, unusually healthy, contracting mosaic very slowly 

 and but moderately injured; autumn-bearing; propagated by suckers; canes numerous, 

 slender, green changing to greenish brown, glabrous, thinly glaucous, with a few glands 

 at the tips; prickles small, slender, weak, medium in number, purplish; leaflets 3-5, large, 

 oval, very attractive dark green, dull, rugose, with finely dentate margins; petiole long, 

 slightly prickly, with a few glands. Flowers very early; pedicels slightly glandular and 

 pubescent; cal>TC prickly. Fruit very early; rather small and variable in size, seldom if 

 ever large, hemispherical, glossy, bright red; drupelets of medium size, cohering poorly, 

 the berries often cnimbling, rather soft but variable, mild and insipid; quality poor unless 

 well grown. 



Rapid City. i. S. Dak. Sta. Bui. 104:290. 1907. 



A wild red raspberry from the Black Hills of South Dakota used by Prof. N. E. Hansen 

 of the South Dakota Experiment Station in his breeding work. Its seedlings are fairly 

 hardy and all bear fruits of good quality. 



Reader Perfection, i. Jour. Pom. & Hort. Set. 3:32. 1922. 



A new variety in England considered worthy of trial on the less fertile raspberry soils 

 in that country. Plants vigorous and productive; canes numerous, stout, nearly erect, 

 green with purplish tinges, moderately glaucous, glabrous; prickles moderately numerous, 



