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Tree productive and hardy. Another Minnesota hybrid. Recommended 
where European plums are tender. 
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. 
Recommended for the home garden. 
Santa Rosa—is one of Burbank’s 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 is one of the best Japanese plums 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, vigor- 
ous, 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. This 
variety is becoming a valuable commercial variety. 
Surprise—is recommended as a suitable pollinator for the American-Japanese 
hybrid plums—Red Wing and Monitor. The fruit is small, attractive red, 
clingstone. Best of the American varieties, Tree very vigorous and pro- 
ductive. 
Yakima—a very large, prune-shaped, purplish red, freestone, good-quality 
plum. Tree is vigorous and upright. Recommended for local markets. 
GRAPES 
At Geneva and Fredonia over 30,000 grape seedlings have been grown. 
Naturally many promising seedlings that seem to be well worthy of trial 
appear from time to time. In order to secure early information in regard to 
their value under varied soil and climatic conditions, they are distributed 
before their commercial value is known. 
Athens (Sta. 12046)—is a promising black grape of the Concord type that 
ripens about a month earlier. Vine very vigorous, hardy, and very pro- 
ductive; bunches medium to large, loose and tapering; berries larger than 
the Concord, roundish oval, black with a heavy bloom; flesh tough. sweet, 
slightly foxy, good quality. Well worthy of trial as an early black grape of 
the Concord type. Parentage — Hubbard crossed with Portland. 
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. 
Bronx Seedless—a large-clustered, large-berried grape obtained from a cross 
between a seedling and Sultanina, a seedless variety grown in California. 
The berries are oval, light red, melting, juicy and good in quality. During 
wet seasons skin is liable to crack. Seeds are soft and pulpy and are eaten 
with flesh. 
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