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Snyder and recommended it for general culture. The American Pomological Society 

 added the variety to its fruit catalog list in 1S75. 



Plants tall, vigorous, upright, unusually hardy, healthy, productive; canes numerous, 

 stocky, furrowed, glossy, pubescent, glandular, greenish red mingled with brown; prickles 

 very large, thick, numerous, reddish at the base; leaflets mostly 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 smooth, pubescent, with finely serrate margins; petiole thick, with but few prickles. 

 Flowers self-fertile, very early, in long, compact, somewhat leafy clusters; petals white, 

 oblong; pedicels long, glandular. Fruit late midseason, injured by drouth; inferior in 

 size, hemispherical, black, quickly becoming reddish black or brownish red; drupelets 

 large, rotmd, with good coherence; core soft; flesh juicy, firm, sweet, rather poorly flavored; 

 quality good only when well grown and well colored. 



Soft Core. i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 159. 1920. 



Originated about 1909 by J. M. Mack, Fallbrook, California; introduced in 1917. 

 Plants were sent to this Station in 1918 by the United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Soft Core is a cross between Texas Early blackberry and Gardena dewberry. Plants 

 vigorous, upright, tender to cold, productive where hardy; fruit large, soft, sweet, spicy, 

 rich; core soft. 



Sonderegger Earliest, i. Sonderegger Cat. 22. 1918. 



A chance seedling found in an old orchard about 19 11 by Arthur Modglin of Illinois, 

 where Snyder and Early Harvest had previously been grown; introduced about 19 18 by 

 Sonderegger Nursery & Seed House, Beatrice, Nebraska. At this Station the variety is 

 too tender and unproductive to be of value. Plants of medium size and vigor, tender, 

 unproductive ; canes slender, pubescent with a moderate number of slender prickles ; flowers 

 very late; fruit of medium size, irregular, cylindrical-conic; drupelets meditam in size and 

 number, black, juicy, moderately firm, subacid; fair; core medium; midseason. 



Spaulding. i. Ausim Nur. Cat. 21. 1901. 



A chance seedling which originated with a Mr. Spaulding, Gonzales County, Texas 

 who introduced it about 1890. As grown at this Station the plants require winter protec- 

 tion and are improductive imless so treated. Plants vigorous, semi-trailing, moderately 

 productive; canes moderately stocky with numerous slender prickles; fruit large, long, 

 cylindrical; drupelets numerous, cohering strongly, glossy black, moderately juicy, firm, 

 sprightly; good; core soft; early. 



Stayman Early, i. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assoc. Rpt. 47. 1883. 2. N. Y. Sta. Rpt. 337. 1887. 

 Introduced about 1883 by Dr. J. Stayman, Leavenworth, Kansas. Plants not hardy; 

 propagates by tips; fruit small; poor. 



Sterling Thomless. i. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 394. 1891. 2. Card Bush-Fr. 239. 1S98. 



A chance seedling, found on the farm of John F. Sterling, Benton Harbor, Michigan, 

 in a field where Wilson and Lawton had been growing. Plants similar to Wilson, but nearly 

 thomless; fruit borne in loose clusters with long pedicels like dewberries, medium to large 

 size, roundish oblong; drupelets large, loosely set, moderately firm, juicy, sweet, with dew- 

 berry flavor. , 



