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strawberry, productive plants. The fruits are large, satisfactory in color, shape, and size 

 and so richly flavored that it is about the best of the double-cropping strawberries. The 

 quality runs a little lower in late, cool weather. The variety needs an abundant supply of 

 moisture, hence is well adapted to the irrigated regions of the Northwest, although it is 

 very generally grown in New York and New England as well. This is a seedling of Autumn 

 crossed with Cooper, which originated in 1908 with Samuel Cooper, Delevan, New York, 

 who introduced it in 191 1. 



Perfect. Plants rather few, vigorous, healthy, very productive; autumn-bearing; 

 leaves small, dark green, very glossy, thick, smooth. Flowers early, very small; petals 

 S-6, small; stamens numerous; receptacle small. Fruit early; fruit-stems short, thick, 

 erect; pedicels short, thick; calyx stmken, well colored; sepals short, narrow; berries large, 

 blunt-conic, plump; apex obtuse; color attractive, glossy dark red; seeds raised; flesh well 

 colored throughout, firm, juicj-, mildlj^ subacid; quality good. 



Superb (of Albaugh). i. Riiral N. Y. 56:470. 1897. 



Originated by B. F. Albaugh & Son, Covington, Ohio; introduced in 1896. Plants 

 moderately vigorous, productive; berries medivun in size, round-conic, scarlet, soft; very 

 good; early. 



Superior, i. Md. Sta. Bui. 124:191. 1907. 2. A^. Y. Sta. Bui. 336:66. 1911. 



Originated in Delaware ; introduced about 1890. In parts of Delaware and New Jersey 

 it has been popular because of its attractive fruit and good shipping quality. Perfect to 

 semi-perfect. At this Station, plants ntunerous, large, vigorous, healthy, productive; 

 flowers very early, small; fruit-stems long, erect; calyx flat, leafy; seeds raised; fruit large 

 to medium, drops in size, conic or wedge, glossy bright red, juicy, firm, aromatic, well 

 flavored, sweet, with red flesh; very good; midseason. Worthy of test. 



Surprise, i. Mich. Sta. Bui. 5$: 10. 1889. 



Truitt's Surprise. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat. 48. 1883. 



Truitt. 3. Rural N. 7.46:589. 1887. 



Originated by James Truitt, Chanute, Kansas; introduced prior to 1883. It was added 

 to the catalog of the American Pomological Society in 1883 as Truitt's Surprise, and was 

 removed from the catalog in 1897. Perfect. Plants numerous, medium in \'igor and pro- 

 ductivity; fruit medium to large, round-conic to wedge-conic, pale red; flesh bright red 

 juicy, subacid; good; midseason. 



Sutherland. 1. Ohio Sta. Bui. 146:57. 1903. 2. Can. Exp. Farm Bui. 62:39. 1909. 

 Originated by Eugene Sutherland, West Coxsackie, New York, as a seedling of Bubach ; 

 introduced in 1899. Imperfect. Plants few, vigorous, productive; fruit small to medium 

 in size, round-conic, light crimson; flesh pale red, moderately firm, juicy, subacid; good; 

 midseason. 



Swedenberg. i. A^ Y. Sta. Bui. 336:67. 1911. 



A chance seedling, supposed to be of Beder Wood found near Sawyer, Michigan, by 

 Charles Schwichtenberg. Perfect. Station plants medium in nimiber, size, and vigor, 

 attacked by leaf -spot, very productive; fruit large, round-conic, broad at the base, very 



