FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 31 



Report of Committee on New Fruits. 



Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen: Your eommittee 

 has had rather poor success in getting material for a report 

 which will be of very much value in giving any information 

 as to New Fruits. On account of the extreme cold during 

 the last winter, man}- new varieties failed to fruit, which 

 made it impossible to take notes. I have written several 

 members, and also to some of the leading growers, and the 

 general concensus of opinion seemed to be that very few new 

 varieties had fruited this past season. 



I had a particularly good opportunity to study straw- 

 berries last season, as we had a test plot of a great many new 

 and old varieties, and I am able to give you the results of my 

 observations on some of these. 



Auto; this is a perfect flowering strawberry, ripens about 

 June 1 6th, large, firm, good flavor, strong plants, fairly pro- 

 lific, and has a good, solid flesh. 



Challenge ; perfect flowering, comes in about June 12th, 

 bright red in color, firm, red flesh, is slightly conical, rather 

 medium size, good flavor, and very productive variety. It is 

 a pretty good variety. 



Climax ; perfect flowering, ripens about June loth, a fine 

 grower, prolific, large for its season, fine flavor, in a good 

 season, and has a deep red color. 



Connecticut; perfect flower, ripens about June i6th, large, 

 deep red in color, particularly fine flavor, a good grower, and 

 quite prolific. 



The Fairfield; perfect flower, ripens about June 14th, 

 rather weak foliage, good quality, bright red in color, fair 

 size, and firm and solid in fruit. 



Kansas; imperfect bloom, ripens about the middle of June, 

 deep red in color, a shy bearer, a rank strong grower, covers 

 a long season, medium size, very firm in flesh, and rather 

 sour. 



Lester Loveit : perfect flower, it is more shy and comes in 

 later than the Gandy. There has been some discussion about 

 this variety, some holding that it was a very fine berry, but 

 that is not the way it has appeared to me. It does not seem 



