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dering it short-lived as a market fruit. In fact, it could never 

 become a market fruit; for if picked early enough to endure 

 handling, it would be almost inedible. All orchardists will 

 black-ball it, except for agreeable, transient, home use. 



Newman plum is the leading commercial variety of the 

 Chicasaw type. It is firm, meaty, and a clingstone. It was 

 introduced from Kentucky. The skin is thin but tough, at 

 first yellow, but afterwards becoming a bright red. It ripens 

 over a considerable season, nearly a month, but is not very 

 acceptable to eat until fully ripe. It is doubtless a valuable 

 market variety of its class, but not where the better European 

 plums are known and appreciated. It should be grown com- 

 mercially, if at all, only on a very small scale. 



One fruit that did not come to us with a sound of trum- 

 pets from any "wizard of horticulture," but that has long 

 modestly asked for recognition, and received little of it, is 

 the Japanese Wineherry (Rtibus Phoenicolasius), a species 

 of raspberry. While it is not unqualifiedly recommended by 

 your committee as a profitable market fruit, until better 

 known, it is believed to be worthy of more consideration 

 than it ordinarily receives. Its salient feature is that it 

 comes after all other red raspberries are gone. While not 

 equal to the Cuthbert in quality, it has a sprightly, vinous 

 flavor all its own. The fruit is of scarlet wine color. Its 

 canes sometimes make 10 to 14 feet in a summer, and are 

 covered with crimson hairs ; and it has silver reverses to its 

 leaves. Each berry is enveloped in a purplish red calyx, re- 

 sembling a Moss rose bud ; and this calyx greatly protects 

 the berry, and finally pops open. The late T. J. Dwyer, of 

 Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, almost a Connecticut resident, 

 grew it with much success as a fancy market fruit, doubt- 

 less in private trade. It is believed to be well worthy of 

 trial and cultivation, and it undoubtedly makes an agreeable 

 addition to the w^ell-supplied family fruit garden. J. Cheal, 

 the noted English pomologist, deems it "a most refreshing 

 and delicious fruit." 



