Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Etc. 
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ReDecca — A fine and delicious white grape, berry and bunch medium size ; vine a slow, 
slender grower and abundant bearer ; not quite hardy. Ripens almost as soon as 
ihe Delaware. 
Ulster Prolific — A nice native seedling. A red grape of good quality, healthy growth 
«nd great productiveness. Will probably be found valuable for general use, as it 
aeems to have all the characteristics of our hardy and healthy native varieties. 
Vergennes — A chance seedling found at Yergennes, Vt. Free from mildew ; very pro- 
ductive ; clusters large, berries large, holding firmly to the stems ; color light am- 
oer, rich and delicious, flesh meaty and tender. Ripens as early as Hartford Prolific, 
-«nd is an excellent late keeper. 
Worden— A seedling of Concord, which it greatly resembles in appearance and flavor, 
••ut the berries are larger. The fruit is said to be better flavored, and to ripen sev- 
-ral days earlier. 
ROGERS’ HYBRIDS. 
Agawam (No. 15)— Large, round, early, and of great vigor of growth. Rich, high 
peculiar aromatic flavor. 
Goethe (No. 1) — A fine light colored variety, tinged and nearly covered with red when 
*ully ripe. It has more the flavor of its foreign parent than any of the others, being 
tender to the center. Bunch and berry large. Ripens with Catawba. 
Llndley (No. 9) — Resembles No. 3 in appearance, but distinct in flavor. 
Massasoit (No. 3) — Large ; resembles Diana in quality; a little native flavor ; tender, 
sweet and good. Said to be the earliest of these Hybrids, and by some highly 
esteemed. 
Merrimack (No. 19) — Very large and earlier than the Diana ; very strongly resembles 
No. 4. Berry and bunches large, compact ; a very strong grower. 
Salem (No. 22)— Bunch large and compact ; berry large, of a light chestnut or Catawba 
color, thick skinned, perfectly free from hard pulp ; very sweet and sprightly, with 
a most exquisite aromatic flavor ; as early as the Delaware, having never failed to 
ripen in the most unfavorable season for the past six years ; keeps well. 
Wilder (No. 4) — Large, bunches greatly shouldered ; berry round and large, flesh but- 
tery, with a somewhat fibrous center, sweet, rather sprightly. 
Decuberry op Running Blaekbeppy. 
Lucretia — The plants are perfectly hardy and healthy, and remarkably productive. 
The fruit, which ripens with the Mammoth Cluster Raspberry, is often one and a 
half inches long by one inch in diameter, soft, sweet and luscious throughout, with- 
out any hard center or core. As the Dewberry roots only from the tips, and does 
not sprout like Blackberries, this will be much more desirable for garden culture, 
and the trailing habit of the plant will render winter protection easily accomplished 
in cold climates where that precaution may be necessary. 
Improved Dujarf Juneberry. 
The Juneberry is one of the most valuable berries. The wood is hard and firm and 
endures the extremes of climate without injury. Its leaves are a dark, glossy green. 
The plant propagates from suckers. The flowers appear about the same time as those of 
the apple. The fruit is borne in clusters, like the currant, and ripens in June. Its size 
equals the Wild Gooseberry; shape, round ; color, reddish purple at first and becomes a 
bluish black when fully ripened. Its flavor approaches the Huckleberry, a mild, very 
rich sub-acid. Perfectly hardy, not being injured by wet, cold or dry weather, and 
needs no special treatment. 
