Il6 THE SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 



Company, Rio Vista, Virginia, in 1892. The American Pomological Society added King 

 to its fruit catalog list in igog. 



Plants tall, vigorous, upright-spreading, hardy, productive, contract mosaic slowly; 

 propagated by suckers ; canes numerous, stocky, greenish becoming yellowish brown, 

 glabrous, glaucous, with a few glands at the tips; prickles small, rather slender, weak, 

 medium in number, light red; leaflets 3-5, somewhat small, dark green, more or less pubes- 

 cent; petiole of average length and thickness, prickly, pubescent, glandular. Flowers 

 late; pedicels medium in length and thickness, pubescent, glandular; calyx prickly. Fruit 

 early midseason or earlier; medium to large, hemispherical, light but glossy red, with 

 very thin bloom; styles conspicuous; torus slightly rough, roundish; drupelets small but 

 rather coarse, cohering poorly, the berries often crumbling badly; flesh lacking somewhat 

 in juiciness, variable in firmness, tender, with insipid flavor when poorly grown; quality 

 rather poor, although variable. 



King of the Market, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 285. 1921. 



Originated by George W. Elliott, Makanda, Illinois, and introduced by Bradley 

 Brothers of Makanda in 1915. Plants upright, stalky, productive; fruit attractive light 

 crimson, firm, rich, delicious; doufcle-cropper. 



Kirriemuir Fillbasket. i. Jour. Pom. & Hart. Sci. 3:27. 1922. 



Received at the East Mailing Research Station in England with the report that it 

 degenerates rapidl}' to a form of much less value. The degenerate form is known as Com- 

 mon Fillbasket; the fruit is smaller and the plants less productive. The true type is said 

 to be the largest fruited and heaviest yielder of all varieties known in Perthshire. Canes 

 dull reddish purple, heavily glaucous, glabrous; prickles few or almost absent, short, stout; 

 fruit large, round, bright red. 



Kirtiand. i. Mag. Hon. 26:223. i860. 2. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 136, PI. 12. 1866. . 

 Cincinnati Red. 3. Horticulturist 2^'. ^\$. 1869. 

 Discovered previous to 1858 by Dr. J. A. Warder growing in the garden of Dr. J. P. 

 Kirtiand, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Kirtiand believed he had obtained the plants elsewhere, 

 but it was not recognized as any known variety. It was named and introduced by H. F. 

 Lum, Sandusky, Ohio. From the variation in the different descriptions it is probable that 

 more than one sort passed under this name. The variety is hardy but is injured by the 

 sun in the South. Plants ^^igorous, upright, with few branches, hardy, productive; 

 prickles few, weak, whitish; fruit medium to large, roundish, bright red; drupelets large, 

 firm, not juicy, nor of high quality. 



Knevett Giant, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 51S. 1845. 2. Horticulturist 4:79, fig. 71. 

 1849-50. 

 Imported from England about 1843 by Marshall P. Wildei of Boston, who received 

 the plants as a present from Messrs. Chandler & Company, VaiLxhall, England, who knew 

 nothing of the origin of the variety. It was considered an excellent sort, similar to Red 

 Antwerp but more hardy. Plants upright, vigorous, hardy, productive; prickles few, 

 short, purplish; fruit large, roundish conic, dark red, firm; good. 



