eo OLGe CO ReN IEW) ERIS 
Santa Rosa is one of the best Japanese plums on the grounds of the 
Experiment Station at Geneva. 
Stanley—is a cross between Agen and Grand Duke. The fruit is of the prune 
type, excellent for cooking or eating out of hand. The tree is healthy, vigor- 
ous, and produces full crops annually. The fruit is large in size, dark blue 
with thick bloom; flesh greenish yellow, juicy, fine-grained, tender, firm, 
sweet, pleasant; quality good to very good; stone free; midseason. This 
variety is becoming a valuable commercial variety. 
Surprise—is recommended as a suitable pollinator for the American-Japanese 
hybrid plums—Red Wing and Monitor. The fruit is small, attractive red, 
clingstone. Best of the American varieties, Tree very vigorous and pro- 
ductive. 
Yakima—a very large, prune-shaped, purplish red, freestone, good-quality 
plum. Tree is vigorous and upright. Recommended for local markets. 
GRAPES 
The Geneva Experiment Station has named and introduced for trial over 
25 varieties of grapes. On the average about one variety has been named out 
of every 1000 seedlings. Several of these grapes have or are becoming estab- 
lished commercial varieties. In areas subject to downy mildew it is advisable 
to spray Bronx and Interlaken Seedless, Buffalo, Fredonia, Hector, Schuyler, 
Seneca, Urbana, and Van Buren. 
Athens — is a promising black grape of the Concord type that ripens about 
a month earlier. Vine very vigorous, hardy, and very productive; bunches 
medium to large, loose and tapering; berries larger than the Concord, 
roundish oval, black with a heavy bloom; flesh tough, sweet, slightly foxy, 
good quality. Well worthy of trial as an early black grape of the Concord 
type. Parentage — Hubbard crossed with Portland. 
Bronx Seedless—a large-clustered, large-berried grape obtained from a cross 
between a seedling and Sultanina, a seedless variety grown in California. 
The berries are oval, light red, melting, juicy and good in quality. During 
wet seasons skin is liable to crack. Seeds are soft and pulpy and are eaten 
with flesh. 
Buffalo—is an early black grape ripening first week in September, and is 
suitable for dessert and wine. Vine is vigorous, slightly tender, but very 
productive; clusters medium plus, tapering, medium compact; berries 
medium, roundish oval, adherence strong; flesh juicy, melting, very sweet, 
slightly foxy, pleasing, good. Parentage — Herbert crossed with Watkins. 
Concord Seedless—probably a sport of the Concord. Fruit resembles Concord 
in color and flavor but the clusters and berries are small. Occasionally 
seed is present but usually berries are seedless. Has possibilities for pie 
stock, 
Dunkirk—has bunches and berries similar to those of Delaware, but both 
are larger, and the crop ripens later and keeps longer. The skin is thin like 
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