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sufficient merit in fruit characters or productiveness in the past 

 three years to warrant their further trial, although so far neither 

 has shown any virus disease* 



7. Taylor never has done as viell here as at Geneva, N, Y. The plants 

 "are very susceptible to mosaic and leaf curl and are severely injured 

 by these virus diseases. Rather heavy winter injury also has reduced 

 the productiveness of this variety. It is not being recommended for 

 further planting in this section, 



8, Marcy, with its extra l^rge, attractive, good quality fruit, should be 

 of interest to the home gardener. However, it is one of the most 

 severely winter injured varieties in our present planting and hence is 

 of doubtful commercial value. This variety has shown no mosaic, but is 

 particularly susceptible to leaf curl, 



' 9, Latha m, in spite of its position as the leading commercial variety, is 

 not without faults. Mosaic outs production in most plantings in the 

 state, and the fruit is not so high quality as the market once enjoyed. 

 Although usually quite winter hardy, spur blight occasionally causes 

 serious cane killing in this variety, 



10, Milton , which ripens with or just after Latham, was at first thought 

 to be th« ansv/er to the maiden's praysr* It is a high quality, fimi, 

 attractive berry of good size and easily picked. The plants are vigorous 

 and so far have shovm no virus disease in plantings where mosaic and 

 leaf curl are abundant on nearby varieties, Hov;ever, in the past tvro 

 winters, Milton has been considerably winter killed so that its pro- 

 duction has been seriously cut. 



So Massachusetts continues to search for that ideal red rasp- 

 berry variety v;hich will combine the productiveness and vdnter hardiness of 

 Chief with the firmness and virus resistance of Milton, the size and color 

 of Marcy, and tlie quality of Cuthbert, to mention a few of the chief require- 

 ments of such a variety, 



A. P. French 



ARE RICHAE^D APPLE TREES AVAILABLE ? 



We have recommended Richared for many years as the best of the red 

 sports of Delicious for most conditions in Massachusetts, It appears that 

 only two nurseries in the east now list Richared in their catalogs. Neither 

 of these nurseries do much business in Massachusetts, 



The name Richared is copyrighted by a Pacific Coast nursery which 

 has leased propagation rights to other nurseries on a royalty basis. Several 

 eastern nurseries leased the name but most of them have now ceased to do so. 

 Nearly all nurseries offer a red sport of Delicious as "Double Red" Delicious 

 or some similar name. Many red sports of Delicious have appeared from time 

 to time, at least three of which have copyrighted names. The red sports 

 offered by nurserymen may be one of these throe, or some other sport never 

 formally named. The differences between the various Delicious sports are 



