LOOSE-CLUSTER VARIETIES 239 



Maynard. A variety found growing on the farm of C. C. May- 

 nard, at Kincaid, Kans., between the Lucretia dewberry and the 

 Early Harvest blackberry, and sent out for trial by him as the 

 Maynard dewberry. Berry round, composed of a few very large, 

 jet black drupelets, ripening with the blackberries ; many berries 

 in a cluster. Claimed to be large, sweet and productive, succeed- 

 ing better on poor than on rich soil. At the Nebraska Experiment 

 Station the fruit has so far been too small to be of value. 



Newman Thornless. Discovered by Joseph Newman, Ulster 

 county, New York. Canes of moderate growth, and thornless. 

 Fruit rather large, oval, of very good flavor. According to one 

 grower, it produces few thorns and fewer berries. It is placed in 

 this class on the statement of the Gardener's Monthly, Vol. II, 

 p. 281, that it belongs to the dewberry section. Perhaps it is a 

 true dewberry. 



Rathbun.Sent out by A. F. Eathbun, of Smith's Mills, N. Y. 

 Said to be a good grower, hardy, of large size, fine flavor, juicy, 

 and attractive. 



Sterling Thornless. A chance seedling, found on the farm of 

 John F. Sterling, Benton Harbor, Mich., in a field where Wilson 

 and Lawton had been growing. The canes resemble those of 

 Wilson in size, shape, and color, but are comparatively thornless. 

 The fruit is borne in cymose clusters, with long pedicels, like the 

 dewberries. Size medium to large, round, oblong; possessed of 

 large, rather loosely set, round drupes. Moderately firm, juicy, 

 and sweet, with a trace of dewberry flavor. 



Wilson (Wilson's Early). This variety was discovered by John 

 Wilson, of Burlington, N. J., about 1854. The bush partakes of 

 the habit of both the low and the high blackberry, some of the 

 shoots being erect and branching, like the Lawton, and others 

 without branches, slender, and trailing on the ground like the low 

 blackberry, and indicating a hybrid between that and the high 

 bush species. The trailing shoots sometimes take root at the 

 tips. Wood downy. The fruit is very large, good specimens 

 measuring an inch and a quarter in length by about an inch in 

 breadth, while the largest are an inch and a half long. Firm, 

 somewhat irregular, tapering toward the apex ; grains mostly 

 large, but with some small ones mixed in. Flavor quite acid 

 until ripe, when it is rich and sprightly. Tilton's Journal of 

 Horticulture, 1869: 284. Has been a popular variety in New 

 Jersey. It demands close pruning in order to prevent overbear- 

 ing, and must be covered for winter protection in most sections. 



Wilson Junior. William Parry, in 1870, selected plants of 

 Dorchester and Wilson and planted them together, far away from 

 any others to mix with, trusting that the pollen of one kind might, 



