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are excellent in quality. The plants are somewhat susceptible to leafspot. 
This is one of the outstanding strawberries from the Station’s list. 
Culver—is a late midseason berry, rather dark in color, and well adapted for 
preserving. The berries are large, regular, and bruise slightly. The flavor 
is sprightly and the quality very good. Besides being excellent for pre- 
serving, it is a splendid sort for home use. 
Dresden—was offered for the first time in 1938-39. The plants are vigorous. 
healthy, increase rapidly and bear unusually heavy crops. The berries are 
large to very large, regular, conic to slightly wedge conic, the primary 
berries being wedge conic, glossy, medium red in color and attractive; 
skin tough; flesh firm, medium red, solid, subacid, good; season early. It 
is a cross between Beacon and Howard and is noteworthy for its produc- 
tivity, large size which is well maintained throughout the season, and 
attractive appearance. It is well worthy of trial as a market berry. 
INTRODUCTIONS OF THE U.S. D. A. 
The United States Department of Agriculture has named and introduced 
for trial an early red apple, named Close in honor of the originator and a 
late blight-resistant canning pear, named Waite, in honor of another well- 
known Department investigator. 
Close—was named in honor of the late C. P. Close, a former horticulturist 
at the Geneva Station and later, for many years, a federal pomologist, 
who was interested in the improvement of the apple thru breeding. The 
tree is a vigorous grower and annually productive. The fruit is large, 
round-oblong conic, of the shape and appearance of Williams. It is well 
colored with a rather dark dull solid red. The season is as early as Crimson 
Beauty and a few of the apples ripen ahead of that variety. The quality is 
good but like Crimson Beauty the flavor is decidedly acid. It is primarily 
an apple for the roadside trade and requires spot picking over a short season. 
W aite—seems to be outstanding as a blight-resistant pear. Under severe test 
conditions this pear has never developed more than about 10 percent as 
much blight as Kieffer. The fruit is of the shape and size of Bartlett and 
ripens with Kieffer. The flesh is smooth without grit cells, juicy, with more 
of an acid flavor than Bartlett but excellent for cooking and canning and 
fair for table use. The tree is a rather slender, willowy grower, of moderate 
vigor. The blossoms produce little or no pollen so cross-pollination is 
essential. Under favorable pollination conditions it sets well and is a 
heavy cropper. 
+Dewson—a seedling of Admiral Dewey crossed with St. John was introduced 
a few years ago by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It is a yellow free- 
stone peach of good quality ripening near Halehaven season. It is of too 
recent introduction to warrant recommendation other than for trial plant- 
ing in a limited way. 
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