A CATALOG OF NEW FRUITS 
Hall is a cross between Golden Drop and Grand Duke, two of the largest and 
handsomest European plums, but both below the mark in quality. Hall is better 
in flesh and flavor characters. The fruits are so handsome and well flavored that 
they will sell in any market. The tree is nearly perfect. This is one of the best 
of the Station’s new plums. 
Imperial Epineuse is an old French plum of the prune type, reddish purple, 
tender, sweet, juicy, and one of the best flavored of all Old World Plums. The 
fruit ripens late and so escapes brown-rot. The trees grow wonderfully well in the 
East and the variety should be much more widely grown than it is. This is the 
plum of plums for the garden. 
Pearl is a medium-sized yellow plum originated by Luther Burbank. Its 
quality is exceptionally sweet and rich. Recommended for the home garden. 
Sannois is a very late reddish purple French plum of medium size. It is one of 
the sweetest and most delectable varieties of all the plum family—a veritable 
sweetmeat. Recommended for the home garden. 
Santa Rosa is one of the new and noteworthy Japanese plums which in nearly 
all characters of tree and fruit surpasses Abundance and Burbank. The tree is a 
prolific bearer, and the large attractive fruits keep and ship well. Santa Rosa has 
long been considered the best Japanese plum on the grounds of the Experiment 
Station at Geneva. 
Stanley is a cross between Agen and Grand Duke. The fruit is of the prune 
type, excellent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is healthy, vigorous, 
and produces full crops annually. The fruit is large in size, dark blue with 
thick bloom; flesh greenish yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, firm, sweet, 
pleasant; quality good to very good; stone free; midseason. Stanley, Hall, and 
Albion are the Station’s three prize plums. 
GRAPES 
All of the men who have undertaken to improve native grapes, and 
there have been many, have chosen as their chief task hybridization 
with the European grape to obtain a combination of the fruit charac¬ 
ters of the European grape with the vine characters of American 
grapes. Twenty-odd thousand hybrid grapes have been grown on 
the grounds of the State Experiment Station at Geneva in the last 25 
years, with this end in mind, and with a high degree of success. 
Brocton flesh is melting, separates readily from the seeds, and is sweet, richly 
and delicately flavored; bunches large. The vine is rather slow in growth, and is 
inclined to bear too heavily, for all of which reasons it should have special care in 
culture and pruning. This is one of the best of the Station’s new green grapes. 
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