YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



yellow, washed over practically the entire surface with mixed red, 

 striped with dark purplish red, and thinly overspread with gray; 

 dots numerous, small, gray and yellow; skin rather thick and tough, 

 tenacious; core small, conical, very open, meeting the eye; calyx 

 tube long, large; seeds of medium size, plump, brown, rather numer- 

 ous; flesh yellowish, tinged with red, rather fine grained, breaking 

 and rather juicy; flavor sprightly sub acid ; quality good to very good. 

 Season, June and July, in Hardman County, Tenn. 



The tree is a vigorous and upright grower, with reddish-brown 

 bark on the young wood. It is reported to be abundantly and 

 regularly productive, the original tree not having missed a crop 

 in thirty years. 



The reviving interest in summer apples for commercial planting 

 renders this variety of the Red June group well worthy of the atten- 

 tion of planters south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. It appears 

 to possess all the merits of the Red June coupled with larger size 

 and better carrying quality. 



The specimen illustrated in Plate XXXI was grown by Mr. J. M. 

 Morris, Grand Junction, Tenn. 



DIPLOMA CURRANT. 



SYNONYM: Moore's No. 180. 



[PLATE XXXII.] 



This promising sort was grown in 1885 by the late Jacob Moore, of 

 Brighton, N. Y., as a seedling of the Cherry currant, the blossoms 

 of which had been fertilized with pollen of the White Grape currant 

 during the previous season. Fruit of it was submitted in 1896 by 

 Mr. Moore to the Department for examination under its provisional 

 designation "No. 180," and in 1897 Mr. Moore named it Diploma. 

 It was formally introduced to cultivation in 1906 by Mr. Charles A. 

 Green, of Rochester, N. Y. 



The originator, who grew a large number of seedling currants, con- 

 sidered it his largest fruited variety, averaging larger in size than 

 its parent the Cherry and outyielding that variety under the same 

 conditions and treatment, while at the .same time milder in acid and 

 of better quality than that sort. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Racemes short to medium in length and rather slender, carrying 

 from 5 to 8 berries each; berries globular, large to very large, on 

 pedicels of moderate length, to which they adhere rather tenaciously ; 

 corolla brown, small, tenacious; surface smooth, glossy; color bright, 

 rich, crimson, not fading quickly after picking, with narrow yellow 

 veins and showing the seeds through the translucent flesh and skin; 

 seeds rather large, numerous, and rather woody; flesh reddish, 



