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got several hundred more and planted them at my home. 

 All of them grew, and I soon had a large plantation. About 

 this time I found other varieties of the dwarf juneberry in cul- 

 tivation in different parts of Kansas, and got plants which 

 bore, and on comparing the fruit with the one I first got, I 

 thought the first one the best ; and as some people discouraged 

 the cultivation of some of the varieties because of their rather 

 inferior fruit, I named my variety 6 Success.' About 1878 I 

 began to sell the plants, under the name Success ; and until I 

 sold the larger part of my stock some three years ago, to J. T. 

 Lovett of New Jersey, I had sold more than ten thousand 

 plants of this variety." 



The Crandall currant (Ribes aureuni) was intruduced in the 

 spring of 1888 by Frank Ford & Son, Ravenna, Ohio, who 

 obtained the stock of R. W. Crandall, of Newton, Kansas. 

 Ribes aureum has long been cultivated as an ornamental plant 

 Crandall under the names buffalo-currant, Missouri currant, flowering 

 currant, currant, and Ribes fragrans. It had also been cultivated for its 

 fruit before the appearance of the Crandall,- but it had passed 

 out of notice. The species, as represented in the Crandall, 

 certainly has promise of usefulness. 



The buffalo-berry {Shepherdia argentea) was introduced in the 

 fall of 1890 by G. J. & L. E. R. Lambrigger of Big Horn 

 City, Wyoming. During the winter of 1890-1 it was brought 

 prominently before the public. 



The elderberry (Sambucus Canadensis) was introduced inde- 

 pendently in 1890 by Frank Ford & Son, and D. Brandt, 

 Bremen, Ohio. The stock introduced by the Fords was not 

 named. Mr. Ford writes that he " did not propagate it for 

 sale, but dug the roots from clumps that produced large 

 fruit. We sold very few plants, and shall not catalogue it 

 ierberry. a g a * n un til we can propagate stock from a few plants which I 

 know, and which produce berries nearly one-fourth inch in 

 diameter." The stock introduced by Brandt was called the 

 Brainard. It was first discoverd in a thicket, in Fairfield 

 county, Ohio, by G. W. Brainard. 



The Oregon Everbearing strawberry was introduced in 

 1890, by Samuel Wilson, of Mechanicsville, Pa., and D. 

 Brandt of Bremen, Ohio. There is nothing in the descrip- 

 tions of the variety to indicate its species. For two seasons 

 I have grown a wild strawberry from Oregon, which is Fra- 



