512 THE SMALL FRUITS OF NEW YORK 



Paris Queen, i. N. Y. Sia. Bui. 147:187. 1898. 



Originated by B. O. Curtis, Paris, Illinois; introduced about 1896. Perfect. Plants 

 moderately vigorous and productive; berries medium to large, conical to wedge-shape, 

 scarlet, soft; good; midseason. 



Parker, i. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 209. 1922. 



Originated about 1910 by Lucius Parker, as a cross between Bubach and Jessie. 

 Imperfect. On the Station grounds, plants numerous, vigorous, tall, productive, healthy: 

 leaves dark green; flowers midseason, small; fruit-stems short, thick, prostrate; pedicels 

 short, thick; calyx large, sunken, detaches readily; fruit large, retains size well, irregular 

 wedge, furrowed, glossy light red, juicy, very firm, subacid, with pale red flesh with hard 

 center; inferior in quality; early to midseason. 



Parker Earle. i. Rural N. Y. 45:461. 1886. 2. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 420. 1890. 3. 



N. Y. Sta. Bui. 36:633. 1891. 



Parker Earle Improved. 4. Mich. Sta. Bui. 189:114, 116. 1901. 



This \'ariety now has little but historic value. It represents a somewhat distinct 

 type in plant and fruit and was in its day one of the old standards so that it is here included 

 among the major sorts. The variety was never a general favorite in New York, but was 

 largely grown in several states of the Middle West. Its half-developed fruits are green; 

 just before ripening they become dead white which rapidly turns to glossy red. The 

 berries usually have the appearance of having been cut squarely off at the tip end. Parker 

 Earle originated in 1886 with James Nimon, Denison, Texas, as a seedling of Crescent; 

 introduced in 1889 by T. V. Munson of Denison; added to the recommended fruit list of 

 the American Pcmological Society in 1891. 



Perfect. Plants medium to few, tall, vigorous, healthy, productive; leaves rather 

 large, dull, rugose. Flowers midseason, medium to small; petals 5-7, smallish; stamens 

 numerous; receptacle small. Fruit late midseason to late; fruit-stems short, prostrate; 

 pedicels long, thick; calyx raised, reflexed, easily detached, well colored; sepals long, 

 narrow; berries medium to large, conic, often truncate at the apex, although usually some- 

 what pointed; color glossy bright red; seeds raised; flesh light red, medium in firmness, 

 juicy, mildly subacid; good to very good. 



Parker Earle, Jr. i. Rural N. Y. 56:471. 1897. 



Originated by James Nimon, Denison, Texas, as a seedling of Parker Earle; introduced 

 about 1894. Identical with its parent except that the plants develop runners more freely 

 and the berries ripen ten days earlier. 



Parry, i. Rural N. Y. 43:400, 445, fig. 211. 1884. 2. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 24:336. 1890. 

 Originated in 1880 by William Parry, Parry, New Jersey, as a seedling of Jersey 

 Queen. Perfect. In the Station beds, plants numerous, mediiun in vigor, unproductive, 

 severely injured by leaf -spot; fruit-stems medium in length, stiff; fruit large, obtuse- 

 conic, glossy light red, soft, well flavored, whitish at the center; very good; midseason. 



Parsons, i. U. S. D. A. Partners' Bui. 1043:34. 1919. 

 Parsons' Beauty. 2. Am. Card. 2i:6t,o. 1900. 

 Reynolds. 3. Ohio Sta. Bui. 178:59. 1906. 



