600 Report or Horti¢éuLtturist or ExPERIMENT STATION. 
The Lucretia is the most productive of the three varieties and 
has the longest fruiting period. 
Latimer’s Seedling dewberry from J.W. Latimer, Pleasanton, 
Kan., was received for testing in the spring of 1894. 
JAPANESE WINEBERRY,. 
The Japanese wineberry has been extensively advertised for 
several years past as a desirable novelty, so it is thought that a 
brief account of its behavior in this locality will not be outzof 
place here. Plants of this fruit were received in 1892 from R. 
G. Chase & Co., Geneva, N. Y. They have made a good growth 
but are only moderately hardy. The canes are covered with a 
dense growth of long purple bristles which gives them a striking 
appearance. The fruit is borne in clusters similar to raspberries; 
as soon as<the blossoms fall the long hairy segments of the calyx 
close over; the ovaries, and so remain until the fruit begins to 
ripen when they recurve and expose the translucent wine colored 
berries. The light orange color of the inside of the sepals forms 
a pleasing contrast to the darker colored fruit. The berries are 
of medium size compared with raspberries, and crumble very 
badly. jThey are sprightly, mild subacid but inferior in quality 
tojraspberries, as grown here. The plants have not been even 
moderately productive as yet. They are propagated by tips. 

