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380 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



introduction was decided on in 1903, and its propagation by layers 

 and cuttings was begun in that year. The variety was named Carrie 

 in honor of Mrs. Redpath, and was introduced in 1905 by Elliot and 

 Redpath. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Berries borne singly or in pairs or triplets with occasionally 5 in a 

 cluster ; size medium, though sometimes large ; form roundish oval with 

 an unusually long, meaty shank at the base; pedicel very slender, 

 rather tenacious; corolla rather small, adherent; surface smooth, 

 glaucous; color greenish, changing to purplish red on the exposed 

 side, and conspicuously veined with white; flesh greenish, trans- 

 lucent, rather firm, fine grained, pulpy, juicy; flavor a pleasant sub- 

 acid; quality good to very good. Wood long, rather slender, willowy; 

 very productive; foliage large, thick, glossy, free from disease. 



Recommended for the upper Mississippi Valley and other sections 

 having severe winters and hot summers. 



The specimens illustrated in Plate XXXIII were grown by Elliot 

 and Redpath, Minneapolis, Minn. 



WINFIELD RASPBERRY. 



[PLATE XXXIV.] 



The original plant of this promising blackcap was found in June, 

 1902, as an accidental seedling in a grape arbor in the garden of 

 Mr. G. F. Kleinsteiber, in Winfield, Kans. Mr. Kleinsteiber was 

 strongly inclined to destroy the stray seedling as a weed, but his wife 

 induced him to retain it until after it should fruit. The plant proved 

 a vigorous grower and matured a strong cane which grew out through 

 the side of the arbor and, true to the habit of its species, struck root 

 at its tip in the soil outside. The handsome color, large size, and 

 fine quality of the crop when it fruited encouraged Mr. Kleinsteiber 

 to propagate it for his own planting and it soon attracted the atten- 

 tion of others, with the result that the Winfield Nursery Company 

 introduced the variety in 1909. 



Nine plants of it in the garden of Mr. Kleinsteiber yielded 54 

 quarts of berries in one season when the crop of Kansas raspberry 

 beside it was destroyed by frost, while in 1908 he sold $40 worth of 

 fruit from a plot 32 by 95 feet in his garden at an average price of 

 $3.50 per crate of 24 boxes in addition to 60 boxes of fruit used at 

 home. a 



DESCRIPTION. 



Berries roundish oblate, large to very large, borne in a compact 

 cluster of from 10 to 16 fruits, sometimes having 1 or 2 isolated lower 



a Information furnished by Mr. Kleinsteiber, July, 1909, through Mr. H. P. Gould, 

 Pomologist in Charge of Fruit District Investigations. 



