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Parnell — A few berries ripe July 14; bright red, rather above me- 
dium, obtuse conical, rather firm, flavor good, but not best. 
Vice-President FKrench— A few berries ripe July 14; red; of me- 
dium size,-firm, flavor rather inferior. 
Delaware — A few berries ripe July 16; bright red; medium to 
small, roundish, rather soft, but of a very pleasant flavor. 
Prosser — A few berries ripe July 16; dark red; medium to smail, 
“very firm, flavor inferior. 
Yellow Antwerp — A few berries ripe July 16; medium to small ; 
pale yellow; roundish, juicy and sweet, soft, but ‘of a very pleasant 
flavor. 
Mammoth Cluster— A few berries ripe J uly 16; black; large, 
roundish, firm, of good flavor. 
Seneca — A few berries ripe July 16°; black; rather small, firm, 
juiev, of good flavor. 
Gregg —A few berries ripe July 20; black ; rather large, but lack- 
ing in flavor; —plant productive. 
Plants of Brinkle’s Orange set out in the spring of 1882 perished 
in the following winter. 
CURRANTS. 
We also tested the following varieties of currant: 
The Cherry, Red and White Dutch, Victoria, Short Bunched Red 
and White Grape varieties ripened about J une 25. The fruits of the 
Cherry were nearly or quite twice as large as those of the Red Dutch, 
those of the Victoria were slightly larger, growing on much larger 
bunches, those of the Short Bunched Red were slightly larger, and of ~ 
the White Grape considerably larger than those of the Red Dutch. 
Of Black Currants, the Black English ripened its first fruit July 17, 
a little earlier than Black Naples, Baldwin’s Black and Ogden’s Black 
Grape. Its berries are slightly smaller than those of the latter three 
\ varieties, between which we noticed no marked differences. 
The Missouri Sweet Fruited is much later in ripening. The berries 
are small, black, and produced in great abundance, but the flavor is- 
too insipid to make them desirable. 
Unfortunately the Black Currants, though possessing the valuable 
qualities of extreme hardiness, great productiveness and entire free- 
dom from the attacks of the currant worm (Nematus ventricosus Klug), 
are so unpleasant in flavor as to make them undesirable additions to 
the fruit garden. 
STRAWBERRY. 
Of the Strawberry, we tested but three varieties, the Hervey Davis, . 
-Wilson’s Albany and Triomphe de Gand. The berries of the first 
were very fine in appearance, and of delicious flavor, but with us, it 
was not sufficiently productive to be valuable. | 
The other two varieties are already well known. We will only add 
that the Wilson’s Albany yielded about twice as much fruit from i 
same area as the other two combined. 
AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS, VAR. OBLONGIFOLIA. 
A few of the plants of this shrub set out in the spring of 1882, 
