NEw YORK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 491 
double, prostrate. Blooms in midseason, ripens medium early, picks 
easily. Calyx medium to large, leafy, attractive green, variable in 
position, detaches easily. Seeds numerous, raised. Fruit above 
medium to large, drops in size as the season advances, roundish 
conic to slightly elongated or irregular wedge, surface of large ber- 
ries furrowed, attactive, glossy, dark scarlet. Flesh of good color, 
firm, agreeably acid, high flavor, good to very good. General ap- 
pearance slightly seedy. Has a number of desirable characters. 
Excelsior.—(W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md.) Perfect. Originated 
in 1890, by Louis Hubach, Judsonia, Arkansas, and introduced by 
J. C. Bauer of that place in 1892. A seedling of Hoffman crossed 
with Wilson. Plants medium in number and vigor, healthy, not very 
productive. Leaves medium to below in size, light green; leaf 
stems of average length, moderately slender. Fruit stems short, 
slender, usually double, prostrate. Blooms and ripens early, does 
not pick easily. Calyx small, not leafy, often discolored, sunken. 
Seeds numerous, depressed. Fruit above medium to small, roundish 
conic, often blunt at apex, attractive dark scarlet when well ripened. 
Flesh well colored, firm, rather tart, hardly good in flavor or qual- 
ity. Color and shape quite similar to smaller berries of Rough 
Rider. Although early, size too small for commercial purposes. 
Fairfield.—(M. Crawford Co., Cuyahoga Falls, O.) Perfect. 
A chance seedling found in an old peach orchard by Martin John- 
son of New Jersey, previous to 1900. Introduced in the spring of 
1902 by the West Jersey Nursery. Plants medium in number, 
rather vigorous, healthy, unproductive. Leaves medium to above 
in size, light green; leaf stems inclined to long and slender. Fruit 
stems short to medium, variable in thickness, usually double, pros- 
trate. Blooms and ripens early, picks easily. Calyx rather large, 
reflexed, attractive color. Seeds numerous, medium sunken to some- 
what raised. Fruit large at first pickings, drops rapidly to small 
as the season advances, roundish conic to slightly elongated, often 
sharp pointed, surface of large berries furrowed, attractive light 
to dark scarlet. Flesh well colored, medium to firm, mildly acid, 
lacking somewhat in flavor and quality, ranks no more than fair. 
Slightly earlier than Excelsior or Oaks Early. Somewhat less vigor- 
ous than Oaks Early. On account of earliness may have some value 
although undesirable in flavor and p1ductiveness. 
Florella— (M. Crawford Co., Cuyahoga Falls, O.) Perfect. 
Originated in 1896 by J. P. H. Brown, Augusta, Georgia. Parent- 
