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the Station beds, plants vigorous, healthy, numerous, unproductive, with good fruit-stems; 

 fruit medium to large, round-conic, light red, soft; good; midseason. 



Challenge, i. Am. Card. 20:510. iSgg. 2. A''. W Sta. Bui. 276:58. 1906. 



Originated about 1884 with J. R. Peck, Breckenridge, Missouri; of little value at this 

 Station. Perfect. Plants few, medium vigorous, unproductive, injured by leaf-spot; 

 fruit-stems short, stout; fruit variable in size and shape, unattractive dull red, medium 

 firm, juicy, inferior in flavor; poor; midseason. 



Champion, i. Downing Fr. Trees Am. 982. 1869. 



Originated with J. C. Neff, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, about i860; included in the American 

 Pomological Society's fruit catalog from 1879 to 1909. Once a popular commercial sort 

 in the East, it is now largely displaced by Windsor, one of its seedlings closely resembling 

 it. Berries large, round-conic, light crimson, firm; good; midseason. 



Champion (of Lubke). i. Weston Cat. 12. 1922. 



Originated as a chance seedling about 19 15 by Edward L. Lubke, New Buffalo, Michi- 

 gan. Perfect. At this Station, plants medium to few, vigorous, productive; autimin- 

 fruiting; flowers small, early; fruit of medium size, uniform, blunt-conic to wedge, necked, 

 glossy medium red ; seeds raised ; flesh medium juicy, firm, subacid ; fair ; very early ; resembles 

 Progressive. 



Champion Klondike, i. Va. Sta. Tech. Bui. 11:18. 1916. 



In 191 2, Louis Hubach, Judsonia, Arkansas, originated this sort as a cross between 

 Sherman and Klondike. Perfect. As grown here, plants very numerous, vigorous, very 

 productive, attacked by mildew; leaves dark green; flowers midseason; fruit above medium 

 in size, regular, rotmd-conic, glossy light red; seeds sunken; flesh very juicy, very firm, 

 decidedly sprightly; good; early to midseason. 



Charles L i. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 447:67. 1918. 



A chance seedling found in the woods by George Hann, Bridgman, Michigan, about 

 1905. Perfect. In the Station beds, plants numerous, medium in vigor, severely injured 

 by leaf-spot, productive; fruit-stems very short, thick, much prostrate; fruit large, retains 

 size well, very blunt-conic, characteristically light red, dull, juicy, soft, with white flesh; 

 mild; poor; medium early. 



Charles Downing, i. Mag. Hort. 33:299. 1867. 2. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 24:331. 1890. 



Downing. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 28. 1897. 



Raised from seed of Downer Prolific in i860 by J. S. Downer, Fairview, Kentucky. 

 This variety was a leading sort between 1870 and 1890. Added to the catalog of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society in 1869, where it remained in the last catalog in 1909. Perfect. 

 On the Station grounds, plants very vigorous, medium in number, attacked by leaf-spot, 

 variable in yield; fruit-stems long, slender; fruit medium to large, conic, bright red; flesh 

 light red, firm, mildly subacid; good; season from early to late. 



Charles Newman, i. Md. Sta. Bui. 160:208. 1911. 



A cross between Aroma and Excelsior raised by Louis Hubach, Judsonia, Arkansas; 

 introduced about 1909. Perfect. Plants numerous, small, vigorous; fruit-stems erect; 



