Nrw York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. — 311 
Thompson Early Pride.— Growth very vigorous, suckers freely} 
foliage, dark green; early; productive ; fruits clear red; firm. 
Thompson's Early Prolific— Growth vigorous, canes stocky, 
suckers freely ; foliage, dark green ; fruits a little larger than the 
foregoing, firm and produced abundantly. 
Turner.— Growth vigorous; foliage, deep green, tipped with 
brown ; productive ; fruits ee scarlet, hairy, soft, with high 
flavor. 
CURRANTS. 
Baldwin’s Black. Glorie des Sablons. 
Black English. London Red. 
lack Naples. Prince Albert. 
Champion Black. | Red Dutch. 
Crandall. Red Fiowering. 
Lee’s Black Prolific. Seedling White. 
Ogden’s Black Grape. Versailles. 
Prince of Waler. | | Victoria. 
Saunders, No. 1. White Dutch. 
Saunders, No. 2. White Grape. 
Cherry. Champion. 
Fay’s Prolific. 
The above varieties of currants were planted in the spring of 
1888. As noted in remarks on small fruits, they have, with few 
exceptions, done well, and will be in bearing sufficient for tests 
next year. A number of them have been reported on in previous - 
years, but have been continued to. afford a comparison with newer 
ones. The data gathered from them this summer contain the 
spring condition, appearance of leaves and growth through 
summer. As very few of them blossomed, and as these held but 
few fruits, it has been thought best to omit the fruit description 
until the future. 
BLACKBERRIES. 
The plantation of blackberries set in spring of 1888, consisted 
of the following varieties. Those marked thus * were unable to 
survive the check of transplanting and the unusual extremes of 
the following winter, and have been replaced by others of the 
game variety this year : 
