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SMALL FRUIT CULTL*RIST. 



cal ; dark purplish-red, or crimson ; firm^ with a rich, 

 sprightly flavor ; canes strong, branching ; spines purple, 

 stout, scattering ; leaves large, deep green, rather flat 

 when fully developed. A valuable market variety. Re- 

 quires protection in winter. 



French t ( Vice President French, )— Medium to large ; 

 obtuse-conical ; crimson ; grains large : firm, sweet, rich, 

 and excellent ; one of the best ] canes very strong, erect ; 

 spines purple, stout, and numerous ; very productive. 

 A valuable variety. Supposed to be a seedling of the Fas- 

 tolflE. Eaised by Dr. Brinckle, aiid named in honor of B. 

 V. French, Vice President of the Mass. Horticultural Soc. 



Fulton, — A large, crimson variety, raised by Dr. Brinc- 

 kle. Probably lost, as nothing has been heard of it lately. 



General Patterson. — Large ; round ; crimson ; adheres 

 firmly to the core. One of Dr. Brinckle's seedlings. 

 Herstine's Seedlin^^s.— The late D. W. Herstine, of 



Philadelphia, raised a large number of seedling Easp- 

 berries, and as some of them gave promise of excellence, 

 he invited several prominent horticulturists of Xew York, 

 New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, to visit his grounds and 

 examine the plants while in bearing and full of fruit. 

 The invited gentlemen responded to the request of Mr. 

 Herstme, and visited his grounds on July 6th, 1870. 

 Mr. Herstine had not performed any of the usual opera- 

 tions of crossing or hybridizing, in order to produce these 

 varieties, but merely gathered seeds from what was said 

 to be the Allen, growing near the Philadelphia, as well as 

 some of the foreign varieties. He thought that his seed- 

 lings were a cross between the Allen and Philadelphia, 

 but, as time has shown, this was doubtless an error, at 

 least so far as relates to the parent-age of the varieties 

 selected and sent out as ''Herstine's Seedlings.*' The 

 four varieties selected and described at the date named, 

 are here given, instead of distributing them in alphabeti- 



