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land, Delaware, and New Jerse3% where it ripens later than Gandy, is of better quality and 

 lacks the white tips which detract from the appearance of that sort. Perfect. Station 

 plants numerous, productive, healthy; flowers vmusually large and with crinkly petals, 

 late; fruit-stems long, thick, semi-erect; calyx large, raised; seeds raised; fruit large, bltrnt- 

 wedge to roundish, dull medium red, with apex often green tipped and seedy, juicy, firm, 

 sweet, highly flavored, with well-colored flesh; very good; late. 



Mastodon; i. Budd-Hansen Am. Hort. Man. 2:421. 1903. 2. Ont. Dept. Agr. Fr. 

 Out. 309. 1914. 

 Introduced by James Lippincott, Jr., Mount Holly, New Jersey, in 1895. Very similar 

 to Bubach. Imperfect. Plants numerous, vigorous, productive; fruit very large, round- 

 conic, bright crimson; flesh pink, medium firm; good; midseason. 



Matilda, i. Am. Hort. Ann. 107. 1S70. 



A supposed seedling of Triomphe which originated with A. J. Tillson, Highland, New 

 York; introduced in 1870. Perfect. Plants numerous, vigorous; fruit large, roundish 

 conic, light scarlet; flesh light red, medium firm, very juicy, sprightly; very good; early 

 midseason. 



Matthew Crawford, i. A^. Y. Sta. Bid. 336:60. 1911. 



Originated by J. R. Peck, Breckenridge, Missouri. Perfect. As grown here, plants 

 numerous, healthy, extremely dwarfish, medium productive; fruit large, drops quickly 

 in size, conic, glossy light red, juicy, medium firm, subacid, whitish at the center; fair to 

 good; very late. 



Matthews, i. A'. J. Hort. Soc. Rpt. 19. 1917. 



Originated in 1910 as a chance seedling with F. E. Matthews, Pocomoke City, Mary- 

 land. Perfect. On the Station grounds, plants numerous, medium in vigor and height, 

 productive, healthy; fruit-stems medium in length and thickness, prostrate; fruit medivmi 

 to small, wedge to irregular conic, furrowed, glossy medium red, very juicy, firm, with 

 a hard center, tart; fair; very early. 



Maud MuUer. i. N. Y. Sta. Bid. 4oi:i&s- iQiS- 



A seedling of Excelsior; introduced in 191 2 by E. W. Townsend & Sons, Salisbury, 

 Maryland. Perfect. In the Station beds, plants very numerous and vigorous, produc- 

 tive, healthy; fruit-stems short, slender, prostrate; fruit above medium to small, irregular 

 conic to wedge, furrowed, glossy medium to dark red, very juicy, firm, subacid, red to 

 the center; fair; early. 



Maximus. i. Rural N. Y. 58:530. 1899. 2. A'. 1'. Sta. Bui. 218:198. 1902. 



Armstrong. 3. Mich. Sta. Bid. 176:4. 1899. 



Big Berry. 4. Am. Card. 21: sii- 1900. 



Corsican. 5. Rural N. Y. 64:544, 568. 1905. 



German Seedling. 6. Ibid. 68:626. 1909. 



This variety is supposed to have originated in Germany and was grown for several 

 years near Rochester, New York, before being introduced as Maximus in 1897. Later a 

 Mr. Armstrong, Charlotte, New York, disseminated it under his own name. It was subse- 



