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tiveness of plant. The clusters are large, uniform, and borne on a long stem so that picking 

 is easy. The berries are large, uniform, bright clear red, and are as pleasing in flavor as 

 those of any other variety and superior to those of most other currants. The fruit is borne 

 on the old wood in a manner peculiar to this sort alone. In Canada it is found to be one of 

 the hardiest of all currants. The canes have the fault of breaking rather easily. The 

 fruits scald considerably in hot weather if not picked as soon as ripe. This variety was 

 originated in 1887 by C. G. Hooker, Rochester, New York, as a cross between Fay and White 

 Grape. Its commercial introduction dates from 1902 and in 1909 the sort was placed in 

 the American Pomological Society's fruit list. 



Plants seldom large, vigorous, upright-spreading, not very dense, healthy, productive 

 to very productive; young shoots few, smoother than Wilder, duller and with less red than 

 Cherry, break rather easily; leaf -buds short and plump, small to medium, variable in length 

 and shape, nearly glabrous, appressed; leaves medium in size, subcordate at the base, with 

 obtuse lobes, the terminal lobe very large, dull, rugose, glabrous, with crenate margins; 

 petiole green with tinge of red, pubescent. Flowers early, large, in long, loose, drooping 

 racemes; caljrx-tube greenish, saucer-shaped, glabrous; calyx-lobes obtuse, thin, glabrous, 

 yellowish green, with trace of red; stamens with a broad connective between the anther- 

 cells; ring well developed, fleshy, greenish; ovary glabrous. Fruit early midseason, easily 

 picked, ships well; clusters long to very long, compact, cylindrical, sHghtly tapering, with 

 well-filled tips, 15-25 berries, drooping; cluster-stems very long, slender to medium; berry- 

 stems long, medium in thickness; berries uniformly large, cling well, roundish or slightly 

 oblate, bright handsome medium to dark red; skin smooth, thin but tough; flesh juicy, 

 tender, sprightly subacid becoming mild when fully ripe; pleasantly flavored; quality very 

 good. 



Pitmaston Sweet Red. i. Horticulturist 9:162. 1854. 2. Ohio Sta. Bui. 371:357. 

 1923. 

 Raised by John Williams, Pitmaston, near Worcester, England. Bunches short; 

 berries small, red; very sweet; not unlike Knight Sweet Red. 



Pomona, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1909. 2. Ohio Sta. Bui. 371:343. 375- 1923. 



About 1873, George W. Blue found in a garden, near Fairview Park, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana, a variety which was then being grown as Knight Sweet Red but which he found 

 to be distinct. He named it Pomona after the name of his home farm. The variety was 

 introduced in 1896 by Albertson & Hobbs, Bridgeport, Indiana. In 1909 the American 

 Pomological Society added Pomona to its list of recommended fruits. Plants moderately 

 large, vigorous, spreading, productive; bunches long, well filled; berries of mediimi size, 

 bright red, juicy, mildly acid; good; midseason. 



Prince Albert, i. Horticulturist 9:9, 10, fig. 2. 1854. 2. Bimyard Cat. 23. 1915-16. 

 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 371:344, 393. 1923. 

 Rouge de Hollande. 4. Ann. Pom. Beige 3:82. 1855. 

 Hollandische Korallenheere. 5. Dochnahl Fw/ir. OfestfewMde 4:188. i860. 

 Rothe von Verriere. 6. Lucas-Oberdieck ///. Handb. Obst. 7:271. 1875. 

 Rivers Late Red. 7. Rivers Cat. 19. 1898-99. 



