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are a great improvement over their parents. 
It is reasonable to expect more and improved 
varieties from Mr. Cooper’s valuable experi- 
ence. 
Besides Mr. Cooper, several others are 
working on these fall-bearing varieties. 
Mr. Louis Huback of Arkansas; Mr. Edwin 
H. Riehl of Illinois; Mr. L. J. Farmer of 
Pulaski, N. Y., and others have been experi- 
menting and raising seedlings. Mr. Harlow 
Rockhill, however, is perhaps the man that 
has secured the most marked practical results. 
Two of the best of his seedlings, Francis and 
Americus, have proved remarkably success- 
ful. They are a decided advance over all 
former fall-bearing varieties. 
NEW VARIETIES 
New varieties are obtained as described 
in the chapter on “‘Breeding.” The method 
used by Mr. Cooper in raising his new varie- 
ties may be of interest: 
He first makes the crosses, then gathers 
the fruit when fully ripe and mushes it to 
a pulp and mixes with sand. A smooth piece 
of soil is selected in the garden, and the seeds 
sown there in July or early in the fall. ‘They 
