. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1884. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 189 Out of hundrels of seedlings thiis grown from the Wilson Early we selected, as the most desirable to pro- pagate the one called Wilson Junior which appeared to combine all the good qualities of the parent with some important additions. The fruit is large and early, is luscious and sweet as soon as black, holds its bright color am bears carriage well. The plants are hardy and productive; canes round, long, slender, entirely free from rust ; bend over and strike root at the tips ; sen
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1884. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 189 Out of hundrels of seedlings thiis grown from the Wilson Early we selected, as the most desirable to pro- pagate the one called Wilson Junior which appeared to combine all the good qualities of the parent with some important additions. The fruit is large and early, is luscious and sweet as soon as black, holds its bright color am bears carriage well. The plants are hardy and productive; canes round, long, slender, entirely free from rust ; bend over and strike root at the tips ; sends up but few suckers; spines small and recurved ; foliage large and thumb or mitten-shaped, and generally has about the same appear- ance as its parent the Wilson Early), and is substantially a reproduction of the excellent qualiti*^s of that good old variety, in a new berry, ripening earlier, more pi-oductive, and more than a quarter of a century younger than the Old W^ilson, from which it grew. For several years the superiority of Wilson, Jun., over its parent, the Wilson Early, growing by the side of each other, and other varieties near by, was manifest; and last year, 1882, in a thirty acre field of blackberries, where all had an equal chance, seven rows of Wilson, Jun., yieldedtwenty-fourquarts of berries per row at the first picking, being more than all others together in the field. At the second time the Wilson, Jun., yielded fifty quarts per row being more than the Wilson Early, or any other variety in the field, and con- tinued to pick as well during the season. A new seedling blackberry of such ex- cellence, combining and perpetuating the good qualities of its parent (the Wilson Early) with some improve- ment—earliness, productiveness, and evenness of ripening—is ample reward for the care and attention required for its selection and ;—Farm and Garden. FREESIAS In the search for novt-lties adapted to winter-forcing and to su|)ply the in
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