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rather thin, flattened or rugose, with serrate margins; petiole medium in length and thick- 

 ness, prickly, glabrous, glaucous. Flowers late; pedicels prickly, eglandular, glabrous; 

 cal^-x prickly. Fruit very late, extending the season of Columbian, inclined to grow in 

 more compact clusters than Columbian or Shaffer; medium in size, broad-ovate, dull 

 purple, adheres well to the torus which is roughish and blimtly pointed; drupelets small, 

 round, with strong coherence; flesh somewhat dr}% finn, subacid, insipid, lacks in flavor; 

 quality inferior. 



Ruby. I. Am. Hort. Ann. 89. 1871. 



Raised from seed of Allen by D. W. Herstine of Philadelphia. Plants vigorous and 

 productive; canes strong, light green, tinged with piuple, glaucous; prickles very few; 

 foliage light green, pearly gray on the under side; fruit large, round, dark red, with large, 

 hairy drupelets, subacid; excellent. 



Ruby (of New York), i. Wash. Sta. Bui. 87:26. 1909. 2. U. S. D. A. Farmers' Bui. 

 887:40. 1917. 

 A chance seedling which originated about 1896 with L. E. Wardell, Marlboro, New 

 York, who introduced it in 1903. Said to be a seedling of Marlboro which it resembles, 

 differing from that variety in being more productive and bearing firmer fruit. It is grown 

 somewhat in the Hudson Valley and in New England, being considered desirable to grow 

 with Cuthbert. As grown at this Station the fruit is not especially attractive nor is the 

 quality high. It was placed in the catalog of the American Pomological Society in 1909. 

 Plants medium in height and vigor, upright, fairly hardy, productive; suckers medium in 

 nimiber; canes medium to stocky, yellowish brown, glabrous; prickles mediimi in number, 

 slender, weak ; fruit of medium size, conic ; drupelets medium in size, cohering well, bright 

 red, firm, juicy, sweet; good; early. 



Russell. I. Mag. Hort. 24:420. 1858. 



Raised by Dr. G. W. Russell, Hartford, Connecticut, from seed of Yellow Antwerp, 

 probably crossed with American Red which grew near it; seed was planted in 1851. The 

 variety was first exhibited before the Horticultural Society of Hartford in 1854. Plants 

 upright, vigorous, hard}' and productive; canes light green, with few white prickles; fruit 

 large, roimdish conic, dark red, moderately firm, juicy, sweet; good. 



Salzer Everbearing, i. Mich. Sia. Bui. 111:56. 1S94. 



Originated in Illinois. Introduced by the John A. Salzer Seed Company, La Crosse, 

 Wisconsin, in 1894. Said to be a cross between Shaffer and Marlboro. 



Saint Louis, i. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 130. 1864. 



Mentioned by N. J. Coleman as of imknown origin. Grown extensively around 

 St. Louis about 1866. Plants said to be hardy, very productive; fruit bright red, firm, 

 showy. 



Sarah, i. Can. Exp. Farms Rpt. 98, fig. 2. 1893. 2. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 278:125. 1906. 

 Grown from seed of Shaffer by Dr. William Saunders while in London, Ontario. As 

 grown here it was inferior to Colimibian and Shaffer. Plants vigorous, hardy and moder- 

 ately productive; said to sucker freely and to propagate naturally only in this way; fruit 



