54 Fruit Culture. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



Lost Rubies (red). Will endure, it is said, winters when 

 the mercury marks twenty degrees below zero. Is of im- 

 mense size. 



Reliance (red). Will grow and fruit in all kinds of soil, 

 and gives promise of being more popular. Very successful 

 thus far in Colorado. 



Superb (red). The following points of merit are claimed 

 for this: Berries averaging, in the flush of the season, about 

 six to the ounce ; a rich, sprightly, sub-acid flavor ; bright 

 crimson color, wonderful productiveness, fruit ripening as 

 early as the earliest and continuing until late in September ; 

 strong, vigorous canes and almost thornless ; great hardi- 

 ness, "having withstood the trying ordeal of the compara- 

 tively mild but changeful winter and spring of 1879-80, so 

 destructive to some other varieties, and the long and severe 

 one of 1 880-8 1, with the loss of scarcely a cane out of 

 several thousands." 



Shaffer's Colossal (black). Suited to all kinds of soil ; 

 ironclad in hardiness, surviving severe winters unprotected. 

 Claimed to be the berry for the extreme w r est. 



Souhegan. It is said of this that the canes are very 

 vigorous, branching quite freely, with many strong, sharp 

 spines. The fruit is jet black in color, large size and good 

 quality, very productive, and ripens one week before the 

 Doolittle, and with the late varieties of strawberries. 



THE HAMELL, of which we give a colored plate, is said 

 to be perfectly hardy. W T m. Parry, of Parry, N. J., says of 

 it " I think it will be an acquisition among small fruits, com- 

 ing in earlier than any raspberry. It stands single and alone 

 and above all competition. At the present time I think 

 there is no raspberry that can compete with it in all the 

 qualities that are desirable for a raspberry." 



