218 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Early Strawberry. — A popular varict}' at the West. Chas. Gibb, 

 the noted Canadian pomologist, ^vrote in 188.5: "This ripens with the 

 Pied Astrachan apph\ It is of small size, but nothing tliat I grow 

 equals it in qualit}-. It has no astringency." 



Fruit small, roundish oblate; surface yellow, handsomelj- striped 

 with red, mixed and marbled on sunny side; cavity regular; stem 

 long; basin Hat; calyx closed. Core closed; cells round; tube 

 funnel-shaped; stamens marginal; seeds large, flattened; flesh white, 

 stained with red, .juicy, sul)acid, very good. August. 



Elgin (Lady Elgin, Genera). — Originated on the farm of James 

 Forbes, of Ridott Township, Illinois. Tree hard}-, vigorous, upright, 

 slender liranches, very productive. 



Fruit large, roundish oblate, regular, surface smooth, whitish 

 yello^-\', nearly covered with briglit rich red; dots few, light and gray; 

 cavity small; stem medium, slender; basin shaflow, corrugated; 

 calyx closed; flesh white, fine, tender, juicy, mild subacid, slightly 

 vinous; very good tor canning or dessert. September, December. 

 (Downing.) 



Excelsior. — "A seedling of Wealthy, originated by Peter M. 

 Gideon, Excelsior, Minnesota, from whom it was received in 1888. 



" Fruit very large for a crab, nearly as large as a medium-sized apple, 

 roundish oblate; stem rather long and slender, sometimes bracted, and 

 inserted in a narrow rather shallow cavity; cah'x rather large, closed; 

 set in a shallow, broad-jalaited Ijasin; skin smooth, yellow, sprinkled 

 with numerous russet dots, and shaded or splashed with red overmuch 

 of its surface; handsome in appearance; flesh white, not fine-grained, 

 firm, juicy, subacid, with crab-apple flavor; good to very good in 

 quality. Begins to rijien al)out the first of Seirtembcr. Tree vigor- 

 ous, upright, sjireading." (Beach and Paddock, X. Y. Exp. Sta. An. 

 Rep., 1804.) 



Faribault. — Originated at Fariljault, Minnesota, from seed of 

 (iil]nn. Placed on Minnescjta State Horticultural Society's Fruit List 

 December, 1902. 



Fruit large, roundish, somewhat five-sided, flattened at ends; 

 surface smooth, yellow, mostly covered with fine nearly solid dailc 

 red, with obscure carmine streaks; dot? distinct, minute, yellow; 

 cavity regular, obtuse, deep; stem long; basin nearly flat, corru- 

 gated; calyx closed; segments erect convergent. C(jre closed; cells 

 OA^ate; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median; seeds short, plump; 



