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as a native sort discovered near that place. It does not propagate readily from the tips 

 and produces few suckers. Canes strong, with numerous stiff, purplish prickles; fruit 

 medium in size, roundish oblate, dull dark red, with thick bloom, soft, juicy, sweet, sub- 

 acid, with the flavor of PurjDle Cane. 



Hillside Favorite, i. Can. Hori. 15:126. 1892. 



Mentioned as having originated in a garden in England several years previous to 

 1892. Plant described as very productive; fruit yellow with a pinkish tinge, of fine flavor; 

 early. 



Hiram. 1. I'. S. D. A. Rpt. 394. 1891. 2. Childs Cat. 145. 1893. 



Sent to the Pomological Division of the Department of Agriculture in 1891 by W. J. 

 Bradt, North Hannibal, New York. Introduced in 1893 by John Lewis Childs, Floral 

 Park, New York. Said to be of the Idaeus type. Plants vigorous, productive, not hardy 

 in Ottawa ; fruit very large, conic, bright red, soft, juicy, subacid; verj^ good; midseason. 



Hornet (I), i. Card. Moit. 2:332. i860. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 241. i860. 3. Soc. 

 Nat. Hort. France Pom. 195, fig. 1907. 

 This variety originated with M. Souchet in Bagnolet, near Paris, France, previous to 

 1858. It was introduced into this country- about 1858 by Aubry & Souchet, French nur- 

 serymen, Carpenters Landing, New Jersey. For a time it was a favorite sort, but it was 

 soon displaced by better varieties. The variety was placed in the list of promising new 

 varieties of the American Pomological Society in i860, upon the society's catalog in 1869, 

 from which it was remo\ed in 1899. Plants vigorous, upright, productive; prickles few, 

 short, purplish; fruit-stems very long; fruit very large, conical, dark red; drupelets compact, 

 variable in size, moderately firm, juicy, subacid; good; season medium long. 



Hornet (II). i. Bunyard Cat. 49. 1915-16. 2. Jour. Pom. & Hort. Sci. 3:26. 1922. 



As grown in England the stock of this variety is said to be badly mixed with types 

 mostly inferior to it. These rogues are attributed either to the growth of seedlings or to 

 bud sporting from the roots. Plants vigorous, ver>' productive; canes very numerous, 

 moderately stout, nearly erect, moderately glaucous, glabrous; prickles few, small, soft; 

 fruit small, round or slightly short-conic; drupelets large, sweet. 



Hudson River Antwerp, i. Horticulturist 11:15. 1856. 2. Card. Mon. 2:332. i860. 



Antwerp. 3. Fuller Sm. Fr. Cult. 156. 1867. 



New Red Antwerp. 4. Mag. Hort. 8:256. 1842. 



North River Antwerp. 5. Gen. Farmer 17:347. 1856. 



This variety is supposed to have been brought to America about 181 7 by a Mr. Briggs, 

 Poughkeepsie, New York, who obtained it from the garden of the Duke of Bedford in 

 England. Its culture spread through the sections of the Hudson Valley where it thrived, 

 and for twenty-five years it was the leading market variety in the Valley, being most 

 extensively planted along the west shore from Cornwall to Kingston. In 1878 it was esti- 

 mated that 14,700 bushels were shipped from Marlboro. Its fruits began ripening early 

 and continued over a long season; they shipped well, and the plants were very productive. 

 The variety went out of cultivation because of tenderness to cold, inability to thrive in 

 other localities, and the ravages of a disease called " Curl leaf.'' The plants were tall. 



