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colored canes, suckering freely. Fruit medium to large, bright 

 scarlet, firm, juicy, of inferior quality. 



Bristol. According to William Parry, this is a strong, hardy, 

 vigorous grower, suckering immoderately. Fruit resembling the 

 Brandy wine, but not so large nor firm. 



Canada Red. Mentioned by Prince in 1832, as a variety first 

 noticed by him growing along the roadside a few miles from Mon- 

 treal, where the plants were to be met with in great abundance. 

 He describes it as of medium size, resembling the common red in 

 quality, with a high and rather peculiar flavor. 



Carpenter No. 1. A vigorous grower, early, fairly productive. 

 Fruit small to medium, bright red. 



Coleman No. 1. Not a very vigorous grower, but fairly pro- 

 ductive. Fruit small, soft, fine-flavored. Ninth Annual Report 

 Geneva (N. Y.) Exp. Sta. 



Cole Prolific. Exhibited at the Chicago Exposition in 1893 by 

 the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario. Found growing wild 

 on the farm of R. D. Cole, of Port Dalhousie, Ontario. 



Crimson Beauty. Found by Dr. Stay man, of Leavenworth, 

 Kans., in 1875, growing in a patch of Imperial. Introduced by 

 A. M. Purdy, of Palmyra, N. Y. Described as large, bright, 

 glossy, scarlet, round to oblong, with a pleasant sprightly flavor, 

 early, hardy and productive. Deficient in pollen production, and 

 must be planted near some free pollen -producing sort to bear 

 well. It has never proved valuable in the eastern states. 



Cuthbert (Conover, Queen of the Market, Quinby's Favorite). 

 Probably the best known of all red raspberries, and the most 

 desirable single market sort. It was a chance seedling found by 

 Thomas Cuthbert in his garden at Riverdale, now in New York 

 city, about 1865. It is a strong, vigorous, upright grower, some- 

 times branching; spines short, stout, purplish, rather numerous 

 toward the base, but often wanting toward the tips. Fruit large, 

 dark crimson, obtuse conical, grains rather small and compact. 

 Flesh quite firm, juicy, sprightly, and of fair quality. Its chief 

 defect as a market berry is its color, which is rather too dark. 

 Mr. Conover, the asparagus man, seeing its value, spread it in 

 his neighborhood, giving it undesignedly the name Conover. In 

 New Jersey it was disseminated by William Parry as Queen of 

 the Market. As yet, no other variety has displaced it. 



Eastern King. Found by O. A. King, of Deering, Maine, in a 

 garden in the town of Westbrook, about 1864 or 1865. A dull red 

 sort, said to be larger, earlier and more productive than the Cuth- 

 bert, though this claim has not been substantiated in Michi- 

 gan. Mich. Exp. Sta. Bull. 111:270. 



