THE SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 211 



Dorchester, i. Mag. Hort. 7:384. 1S41. 2. Ibid. 23:402. 1857. 



Improved High Bush. 3. Ibid. 17:20, fig. 4. 1851. 



For a discussion of this old sort, see page 185. The American Poraological Society 

 placed Dorchester in its catalog in 1856, where it remained until 1899. Plants vigorous, 

 upright, subject to winter injury, productive; canes strong with numerous strong prickles; 

 fruit of medium size, elongated, attractive black in color, juicy, sweet; good. 



Dr. Warder, i. Mag. Hort. 30:360. 1864. 



Raised by John B. Orange, Albion, Illinois, prior to 1864. Fruit large, dark rosy 

 red; good. 



Dublin Best. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 159. 1920. 



A chance seedling found on the farm of a Mr. Tackett; introduced about 19 18 by S. P. 

 Sitton & Son, Dublin, Texas. Plants trailing the first season, becoming more erect the 

 second; fruit very similar to that of Mayes. 



Duncan Falls, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 445. 1869. 



Introduced by J. C. Neff, Dimcan Falls, Ohio. Plants very vigorous, upright; fruit 

 large, black, moderately firm, juicy, sweet; ripens before Kittatinny. 



Early Cluster, i. Rural X. Y. 43:587. 1884. 2. A'. Y. Sta. Bui. 63:666. 1893. 



The original plant was fotmd about 1872 in a plantation of Missouri Mammoth on 

 the farm of Charles W. Stam in southern New Jersey. At this Station the plants are 

 tender to cold and of little value. Plants upright, moderately vigorous, variable in hardi- 

 ness, productive; canes stout; prickles numerous, moderately strong; fruit medium in size, 

 short oblong; drupelets large, glossy black, sweet; very good; core soft; season esxly and 

 short. 



Early Harvest, i. Rural N. Y. 42:638. 1883. 2. A'. Y. Sta. Bui. 278:142. 1906. 

 3. Card Bush-Fr. 218. 1917. 4- Hedrick Cyc. Hardy Fr. 286, fig. 249. 1922. 



In the early stages of blackberry culture in this cotmtrj', Early Harvest was considered 

 valuable as an extra early variety. It is now little grown as the plants suffer much from 

 winter injury in the North and in the South are very susceptible to orange- rust . The variety 

 is prized in parts of California and is an extra early sort in some parts of the South. The 

 fruits are small with small drupelets but are very uniform in size, jet black, and are very 

 distinct from that of other sorts in general appearance. They ship well and the quality 

 is very good. The plants are so stockj% upright, and sturdy as to require no trellis, 

 making the variety a desirable one for the home garden. This is an old variety, the original 

 plant of which was found growing wild in Illinois some time previous to 1880. The Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society added the variety to its recommended list of fruits in 1883. 



Plants dwarfish, branching freely, medium in height and vigor, very upright, requiring 

 no trellis, tender to cold, variable in yield, susceptible to orange- rust in some localities; 

 canes variable in number, deeply furrowed, green changing to dark reddish brown or red 

 at maturity, dull, glabrous; prickles small, slender, medium to few; leaflets 3-5, oval-lanceo- 

 late, small, rather thin, light green assuming a reddish cast and persistent late in the fall, 

 dvdl, with deeply serrate margins; petiole long, medivmi in thickness, prickly, pubescent. 

 Flowers midseason, self-fertile, in short, leafy clusters; pedicels heavily pubescent. Fruit 



