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very ..^hallow suture—almost a globe. 
The color is creamy yellow with a heavy 
blush of red, with short, thick, velvety 
pubescence. The flesh is light yellow, 
firm, juicy, sweet and rich hut clings to 
the stone. Arp Beauty is about a month 
earlier than Elherta, its season is long 
and it promises to ship well. It is worth 
planting in a probationary way in com¬ 
mercial orchards. 
Frances. —Of the several peaches ad¬ 
vertised to follow Elherta, Frances is 
the best on the grounds of this Station. 
The fruits are as large as those of El¬ 
herta and more handsome, having a rich¬ 
er background of yellow and more bril¬ 
liancy in its red cheek, more nearly round 
and more uniform in size and shape. In 
quality it is much the same as Elherta, 
become one of the most profitable red 
raspberries grown. 
Blum Farmer Black Raspberry.— 
Plum Farmer is one of the best of the 
black raspberries growing on the Station 
grounds. The plants are vigorous, pro¬ 
ductive, healthy and were little injured 
in this locality by the unusually severe 
Winters of the past few seasons. The 
fruit is large, about tin; size of that of 
Gregg, of good color, high quality and 
ships well. It is a splendid sort and has 
come to stay as a commercial black rasp¬ 
berry. 
Perfection Currant. —Although not 
new. Perfection currant is not as well- 
known as it should be. Plants have been 
growing at Geneva since 1NH7, and have 
found favor with all who have seen them. 
In form of bush and in health and vigor. 
Perfection is intermediate between its 
parents, Fay and White Grape. In size 
of cluster and in size of berry Perfection 
excels the well-known and very good 
HAULING MANURE 
the difference in flavor, texture and juici¬ 
ness being in favor of Frances. The trees 
are vigorous and productive and the buds 
have withstood several severe Winters 
rather better than have those of Elherta. 
The chief asset, however, is its later sea¬ 
son. which is from a few days to a week 
later than Elherta. 
Miss Lola. —Though well-known in 
parts of the South, this variety is hard¬ 
ly grown in the North. On our grounds 
it seems to fill a gap in the peach pro¬ 
fession that ought to make it valuable 
for this region. It follows Mamie Rosa 
and Greensboro, both of which it sur¬ 
passes in appearance and quality. It 
precedes Champion and is even better 
than that very good variety. As com¬ 
pared with Carman, with which it ripens, 
it is very similar but the trees are hard¬ 
ier, more vigorous, while the peaches are 
of better quality, larger and superior in 
all respects except in color. The flesh 
is white, melting, sweet and sprightly 
and almost free from the stone. It is one 
of the best •white-fleslied peaches in our 
collection. 
Eclipse Grape. —The Eclipse is the 
only new grape in a collection of over 
400 which this Station unqualifiedly re¬ 
commends fruit growers to test. It re¬ 
sembles Concord, differing chiefly in be¬ 
ing earlier and of much better quality, al¬ 
though, and, unfortunately, the bunch¬ 
es and berries are smaller. The vines 
are not surpassed by those of any other on 
our grounds, being hardy, healthy and pro¬ 
ductive. Ripe fruit hangs on the vines 
for some time without deterioration and 
the grapes do not crack in wet weather. 
Eclipse ripens several days earlier than 
Concord and should be made a splendid 
variety to precede that sort. 
.Tune Raspberry. —June is a Station 
seedling which has been tested long 
enough to make it certain that it is 
equal and in many characters superior 
to the best older varieties. Its merits 
are: hardiness, healthiness, productive¬ 
ness and great vigor of plants. The 
heavy yield is well distributed over a 
long season. The berries are handsome 
in appearance, good in quality and ship 
well. But the most remarkable and val¬ 
uable character of June is its season—• 
it ripens earlier than any other of the 
70 varieties growing on the Station 
grounds, coining to maturity at Geneva 
in June. We expect to see this variety 
WITH AUTOMOBILE. 
Fay. The currants are uniformly large 
to the very tip of the cluster, the stem 
of which is free from berries near its at¬ 
tachment to the plant thus making the 
crop easy to pick. In color the currants 
are attractive red, a little paler than the 
Fay, and the variety is superior to either 
Fay or Cherry in flavor and quality. 
Bookman Gooseberry. —There are but 
few varieties of American gooseberries, 
and all agree that there is great room for 
improvement over these. Small fruit¬ 
growers plant extensively but one variety, 
the Downing. On the Station grounds 
we have a variety which is much better 
than Downing. The variety is Boorman, 
which has been in fruit during the past 
five seasons. The plants at once attract 
attention because of their vigor and pro¬ 
ductiveness; the berries, because of their 
handsome appearance and high quality. 
The variety is wonderfully productive, 
one bush in our collection having yielded 
14 pounds three ounces, another 10 
pounds 15 ounces of fruit. The berries 
are larger than those of any other Ameri¬ 
can sort and more oval. The quality is 
excellent. The bushes are so vigorous 
that they must be set further apart than 
those of Downing. 
Prolific Strawberry. —This Station 
seedling has already become a desirable 
commercial variety, having been exten¬ 
sively planted in the strawberry sections 
of New York. Its great merit is its pro¬ 
ductiveness, the variety having yielded 
at the rate of 14,500 quarts per acre on 
the Station grounds. The fruit matures 
in midseason and the berries are large, 
firm, well colored and ship well, and 
hold up in size throughout the season. In 
color, Prolific resembles Sample, which 
was one of its parents. The flesh is 
pleasantly acid and of much the same 
flavor as that of Marshall, the other par¬ 
ent. The blossoms are perfect. The 
greatest fault of the variety is a tendency, 
uuder unfavorable weather conditions, to 
be affected by leaf-spot. Out of a collec¬ 
tion of several hundred. Prolific is one of 
the most promising for a commercial 
berry, the soil here being heavy clay. 
Geneva Exp. Station. 
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