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ROYAL PURPLE 



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sparse on old canes and of a characteristic greenish- 

 yellow color. Flowers early, large, 6-10 in a rather 

 short, leafy, compact cluster. Fruit early, large, regu- 

 lar, dark but bright red, conical, downy ; drupelets 

 irregular, numerous, adhering well so that berries do 

 not crumble ; receptacle smooth, releasing the berry 

 easily ; flesh firm, tender, juicy, mild and rather poor 

 in flavor ; quality not above good ; seeds small. 



MILLER. R. strigosus. Miller's Woodland. 

 This is an old variety which was at one time 

 very popular in Delaware, and is still grown 

 there in small quantities. The origin was 

 the same as that of the better-known Brandy- 

 wine, which it greatly resembles, differing 

 chiefly in earlier ripening of the fruit. Miller 

 is being discarded because the plants lack 

 vigor and are only moderately productive. It 

 seems never to have been widely distributed. 



OHTA. R . strigosus X ? Ohta is a promis- 

 ing new variety for the austere climate of 

 the northern part of the Great Plains. On 

 the grounds of the State Experiment Station, 

 Geneva, New York, the fruits are too small 

 and quite too tart to compete with June, 

 Marlboro, Cuthbert, and their kind. Ohta is 

 from a field of hybrid raspberries grown by 

 Professor N. E. Hansen, of the South Dakota 

 Experiment Station, Brookings, South Dakota. 

 The plant was first noted in 1906, and the 

 variety was distributed in 1912. 



Plants hardy in South Dakota without winter pro- 

 tection, tall, vigorous, upright, productive ; canes nu- 

 merous, rough with a tendency to peel, reddish-brown, 

 with numerous slender spines. Terminal leaflet often 

 lobed and tinted with red. Flowers 5-8 in a loose, 

 leafy, prickly raceme. Fruit late midseason, hemispheri- 

 cal, of only average size, light red with slight bloom ; 

 drupelets small, cohering ; receptacle smooth, releasing 

 fruit easily ; flesh soft, tender, tart ; quality fair to 

 good ; seeds small. 



ONTARIO. R. strigosus. Ontario has 

 much to recommend it for commercial plan- 

 tations to precede Cuthbert and to follow 

 Marlboro, Perfection, and June. It is one of 

 the most productive varieties ever grown on 

 the grounds of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, and the berries are so 

 large, handsome, and well-flavored, and keep 

 and ship so well, that it is certain to be a 

 good commercial fruit. It was grown from 

 seed at the New York Station, Geneva, New 

 York, first fruiting in 1911, and was introduced 

 in 1919. 



Plants medium to tall, very vigorous, upright- 

 spreading, very productive ; canes numerous, stocky, 

 reddish-brown, almost devoid of prickles. Fruit early 

 midseason, very large, uniform and retaining size 

 throughout the season, broad-conic, medium red ; torus 

 small, smooth, releasing berries readily ; drupelets large, 

 adhering so that there is no crumbling ; flesh firm, juicy, 

 mild subacid, pleasantly aromatic ; quality very good ; 

 seeds small. 



PERFECTION. R. strigosus. There are 

 two Perfection red raspberries; one from Wis- 

 consin, which is now grown little or not at all; 

 the other, a comparatively new variety from 

 the great small-fruit district of the Hudson 

 River Valley. The latter is the subject of 

 this sketch. This variety, for the last few 

 years, has been the best-liked sort in eastern 



New York because of great vigor, productive- 

 ness, and hardiness. Some find the fruit a 

 little soft and inclined to crumble. Perfection 

 originated with A. H. Grefe, Marlboro, New 

 York, in 1900 and was distributed in 1910. 



Plants tall, vigorous, upright, very hardy and pro- 

 ductive ; canes numerous, stocky, prickly, dull greenish- 

 brown. Leaves on bearing wood very small, midrib 

 spiny with a few glands at the base. Flowers 4-8 in 

 a short, open, leafy, prickly cluster. Fruit early mid- 

 season, large, regular, hemispherical, dull, rather dark 

 red ; torus large, rather rough, clinging a little too 

 tenaciously to the fruit ; drupelets large, irregular, 

 cohering weakly so that the berries crumble; flesh a 

 little soft, tender, sprightly, fair to good; quality not 

 above mediocre ; seeds small. 



RANERE. Fig. 244. R. strigosus. St. 

 Regis. Introduced as an everbearing red rasp- 

 berry, Ranere is chiefly valuable for spring- 

 bearing, five-sixths of the crop being borne 

 in early summer and the rest in the autumn. 

 Aside from its being a double-cropper, there 

 is not much to recommend the variety. The 



244. Ranere. 



berries, while handsomely colored, are variable 

 in size, running rather small, and mediocre in 

 quality. The plants are hardy, but only mod- 

 erately vigorous, and very susceptible to crown- 

 gall. The variety was long grown in New 

 Jersey by a colony of Italians, and was gen- 

 erally distributed about 1912. 



Plants of medium size, vigor and productiveness, 

 hardy ; canes numerous, slender, brownish-gray. Leaves 

 rugose, glabrous above, pubescent beneath with a spiny 

 midrib which is glandular at its base. Flowers 5-6 in 

 a long, open, leafy cluster. Fruit early summer and 

 autumn, rather small and variable in size, light red, 

 hemispherical ; drupelets of medium size, round, cohering 

 poorly, the berries often crumbling ; flesh rather soft, 

 mild and insipid ; quality poor ; seeds small. 



RED ROSE. R. strigosus. Red Rose is 

 said to be a cross between Cuthbert and 

 Loudon, but it resembles the latter so much 

 that it is hardly worth keeping the two dis- 

 tinct, although its season is more nearly that 

 of Cuthbert. The plant is very hardy, vigor- 

 ous, and healthy, in particular being quite free 

 from crown-gall. The berries are large, bright 

 red, very attractive, but crumble too readily 

 for a commercial berry, and are not of more 

 than average quality. The variety originated 

 about 1906, and was introduced in 1910. It is 

 worth trying only where the Loudon is grown. 



ROYAL PURPLE. R. strigosus X R- occi- 

 dentalis. While the berries are not so inviting 

 in either appearance or taste as those of the 

 standard Columbian, Royal Purple may have 

 a place in commercial berry-growing because 

 of the great hardiness of the plants and the 



