. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Table I.—COMPARISON OF WILCOX. STEVENS AND BECKWITH VARIETIES WITH EARLY BLACK AND HOWES. False Season Yield Size Spec, gravity Color Rot Breakdown Resistance Resistance Shipp Heobu Test ng qual. Sauce Vi t. C Variety Blossom Resistance rn Morse Test Tarr Test Flavor Total Early Black 9 n 6 1 4 10 10 .., IH (i 10 2 3 89 Beckwith—No. In (Mc- lin -N Early Black 1 8 2 12 10 3 9 8 (101 1 / 10 5 , 3 10 il 5 Stevens—No. 33 (Mc- Farlin x Potter) 7 6 16 10 2 9 9 (10) 1/ 10 4 4 il 3 B 94 Wilcox—No. 3G (Howes X Searles) fi Howes 1 s ir,
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Table I.—COMPARISON OF WILCOX. STEVENS AND BECKWITH VARIETIES WITH EARLY BLACK AND HOWES. False Season Yield Size Spec, gravity Color Rot Breakdown Resistance Resistance Shipp Heobu Test ng qual. Sauce Vi t. C Variety Blossom Resistance rn Morse Test Tarr Test Flavor Total Early Black 9 n 6 1 4 10 10 .., IH (i 10 2 3 89 Beckwith—No. In (Mc- lin -N Early Black 1 8 2 12 10 3 9 8 (101 1 / 10 5 , 3 10 il 5 Stevens—No. 33 (Mc- Farlin x Potter) 7 6 16 10 2 9 9 (10) 1/ 10 4 4 il 3 B 94 Wilcox—No. 3G (Howes X Searles) fi Howes 1 s ir, 4 5 4 .5 9 9 7 (10) 1/ 10 6 10 8 10 7 10 10 10 2 3 5 95 84 Scoring: 1—poorest. 10—best: yield. 1—poorest, 20—best: specific gravity and vitamin C. 1—poorest. B—best Shipping Quality tests by Hepburn and Morse of the New England Cranberry Sales Company. Note 1/: At Whitesbog in 1949 rot scores for these 3 varieties were excellent and better than for Early Black. Wilcox vine notes: "No. 33 vines very long, coarse, tangled: vines ; "No. 36 vines coarse, but badly tangled, will scoop"; "vines long, tangled. ents—McFarlin keeping- qualities Searles, made by Bain. About 380 and size of fruit, Potter gloss and seedlings of this cross were grown. vine type and, apparently, its pro- ductivity. This variety is named for the late Neil E. Stevens, for many years in charge of the cranberry disease investigation of the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, and so en- gaged when the breeding work was initiated. The Wilcox, tested as No. 36, re- sulted from a cross of Howes x The plants have long, rather coarse vines but scoop well. It has been rated very productive, as produc- tive as the Stevens. It is probably somewhat more vigorous than Beck- with but not so vigorous as the Stevens. The berries are nearly the size of the Howes and larger than the Early Black, with a cup count of about 95. Their shape is like that of a pointed Howes and
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