. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals. y almost 25 per cent., being ex-tra fine for canning and evaporating. The canes, too, resemble Gregg,are free from disease, upright in growth; a good market fruit and alsovaluable for home use. Ohio.—Ripens mid-season, between Souhegan and Gregg. The fruitis nearly as large as the Gregg. Very uniform in size and holds out largeto the last picking. The color is nearly as black as the Souhegan. Itis of splendid quality, firm, and a very excellent shipper; valuable formarket. Palmer.—The first to ripen; fruit good size and quality; canes won-derfully produ
. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals. y almost 25 per cent., being ex-tra fine for canning and evaporating. The canes, too, resemble Gregg,are free from disease, upright in growth; a good market fruit and alsovaluable for home use. Ohio.—Ripens mid-season, between Souhegan and Gregg. The fruitis nearly as large as the Gregg. Very uniform in size and holds out largeto the last picking. The color is nearly as black as the Souhegan. Itis of splendid quality, firm, and a very excellent shipper; valuable formarket. Palmer.—The first to ripen; fruit good size and quality; canes won-derfully productive, vigorous and hardy; ripens its crops in short time;one of the best varieties of Black Caps; desirable for market on accountof its fine appearance and high quality; one of the best for the homeplanting. Soughegan.—Enormously prolific of jet black berries, and the bestin quality of any Black Cap; the very earliest to ripen, coming with thelater varieties of strawberries; perhaps the best early variety we havefor all KANSAS. 64 DWYERS GUIDE. RASPBERRIES—PINK VARIETIES. Cardinal.—Berries are of great size, purplish-crimson in color, exceed-ingly firm, rich and sprightly, with full raspberry flavor. Of special valuefor canning. It propogates from tips like the Black Caps; the canes are ex-tremely large and vigorous growers and immensely productive; ripens inmid-season; good for home use for canning and profitable for marketwhere there is a demand for it. Columbian.—The Columbian is a vigorous grower, with large fruitingcanes, fully as large as the Shaffer, which is the most rampant grower andprolific yielder we have yet seen and the fruit is the largest grown. Inquality it is an improvement on the Shaffer, being sweeter when ripe andof higher flavor. We have planted it on several soils and in each instance
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