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I have cultiyated this yariety about ten years, and have 

 neyer as yet had a plant suryiye the winter unless protected. 

 It is of no particular yalue unless for the purpose of pro- 

 ducing a late crop^ and to insure this the entire plant 

 must be cut down early in spring. This yariety was found 

 in a grayeyard^ in the Village of Catawissa^ Columbia 

 County, Pa. 



EUlsdale. — Large^ roundish-oyal, grains medium to 

 large, quite regular in size ; color, light crimson or dark 

 scarlet; rather firm and of good fiayor ; canes yery strong, 

 light red, smooth, with a few straight spines near the 

 base, and an occasional hooked one on the upper portion. 

 The plant produces no suckers from its lateral roots, but 

 propagates from the tips of the canes, the same as the 

 Purple Cane. Xew, not thoroughly tested at the East, 

 but considered as a yery yaluable yariety in the locality 

 where it originated. Found in 1856, by Mr. J. E. John- 

 son, growing on the EUisdale farm, in Pottawatomie 

 County, Iowa. The stock was placed in the hands of 

 H. A. Terry, of Crescent City, Iowa, for propagation and 

 dissemination. 



Gardiaero — A yery large, coarse growing sort, with 

 large, dark, dull red, poor flayored fruit. I tested a few 

 plants when it was first sent out, some fifteen years ago, 

 and then dug them up. I am inclined to think that it 

 receiyed no better treatment from other growers, as it ap- 

 pears to haye dropped out of sight and cultiyation. 



Ganar^ua. — This is another yariety of the Gardiner 

 class, and haying had a brief notoriety is passing out of 

 cultiyation. The fruit is rather large, well flayored, and 

 attractiye in appearance. This was claimed to be a hybrid 

 when first disseminated. 



Purple fane. {American Red Cane,) — Medium, or 

 small, roundish, dark dull red, with bloom; grains large, 

 soft, sweet, very good ; canes yery strong ; growing eight 



