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43126. "Ice Cream. A cross between Up-to-Date and Osprey Improved. Tree very vigorous, enormous dependable cropper; fruit of large size, ripening just after Osprey Improved [S. P. I. No. 43134], cream color, with red on sunny side, freestone, exquisite flavor."

43127. "Ideal. New, second early, very good."

43128. "Kerr's Late. A seedling from Salway. The fruit is large, with a deep yellow skin and beautiful red cheek; a perfect freestone; one of the most dependable croppers of late peaches." 43129. "Late Champion. Resembles Waikato Champion, but, unlike that variety, is a good cropper and ripens about three weeks later. It is one of the largest peaches grown, and bears heavy and regular crops every year."

43130. "

Lippiatt's Late Red. Another fine peach; color creamy, mottled, striped, and overspread with dark red; tree a fine grower and an immense bearer."

43131. "Model. Seedling from Paragon. This peach, as its name implies, leaves nothing wanting in a commercial fruit of very large size; heavy cropper, good quality, and of beautiful color; yellow flesh, semicling; little later than Paragon [S. P. I. No. 43135]." 43132. "Motion's Cling. A large clingstone, resembling Stark in appearance; an ideal market variety, being of very high color; will prove a commercial peach; a great cropper."

43133. "Muir's Perfection. This is one of the finest midseason peaches I have ever seen; its rare size and handsome appearance will easily place it as a sure prize winner. Its flavor is delicious, flesh white, freestone. Fruits beautifully colored, even in the shade of the tree. In shape like that of Sea Eagle, and often quite as large. For commercial or home use it, without a doubt, will become a great favorite."

43134. "Osprey Improved. A fine peach for home use, fine size and good quality, but too soft and lacking in color for market; a most dependable cropper."

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43135. Paragon. A yellow-fleshed clingstone peach of my own rais-
ing. All points considered, as an all-round peach it stands alone
in its season. In the whole catalogue no peach can compare with
it from year to year for cropping. Paragon is a favorite with all
growers. It is too well known now to require further comments.
As a cropper it will rank among peaches as Burbank among plums."
43136. "Shipper Cling. A very large clingstone peach of our own
raising, with deep pumpkin-yellow flesh, orange-yellow skin, very
red cheek, and a very attractive appearance. It is by far the
finest peach for either bottling or canning, for when preserved the
fruit remains intact. Those growing peaches for their own bottling
should try this grand peach, as it is simply delicious."
43137. "Up-to-Date. Yellow-fleshed freestone seedling of my own
raising. Most vigorous of all peaches; tree heavy bearer; fruit
of immense size and of delicious flavor. This variety we find
better suited for canning and home use, being rather tender for
long shipments."

No. 43118).

A cross between the Early Malcolm (staminate parent) and the Squaw corn (pistillate parent). The Early Malcolm (a straight selection from the Malakoff, S. P. I. No. 13, an early introduction from Russia) is the only variety that matures regularly in Ottawa. The cross is a very sweet variety. (Photographed by Mr. Fairchild, Sept. 17, 1915, at the Central Experimental Farms, Ottawa, Canada; P19316FŠ.)

SEEDS OF A STAPLE FOOD PRODUCT IN SPAIN, A FEW OF THE NUMEROUS VARIETIES OF CHICK-PEA (CICER ARIETINUM L., S. P. I. Nos. 4327343280).

The chick-pea, or garbanzo of Spanish countries, is used very extensively. In some regions it stands next in importance to wheat as a food plant. It is employed in meat stews almost universally in Spain and is eaten as a breakfast dish in Asia Minor in the form of a puree. Muffins made from chick-pea meal closely resemble corn-meal muffins. The chick-pea is an arid-region plant and does not thrive where the summers are moist. Its leaves are covered with sticky hairs containing oxalate of lime; this makes it somewhat disagreeable to harvest by hand. In regions where it grows well it should be carefully studied as an important leguminous grain crop. (Photographed by E. C. Crandall, Dec. 21, 1909; P6248FS.)

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43138. "Weeping. These are most showy and decorative trees to plant, being ornamental as well as useful. The pendulous habit makes them very conspicuous when planted on a lawn or drive. If the ground is well manured and cultivated around them, they will produce great crops of fruit of splendid quality. These are worked on standard stocks, ranging in height from 5 feet to 6 feet 6 inches."

43139 to 43146." AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA Ait. Amygdalaceæ.

Nectarine.

43139. "Ansenne. The parent of Goldmine. The fruit is of the
largest size and of very light color; flesh tender, melting, and of
most delicious flavor; tree extremely hardy and a regular cropper."
43140. "Diamond Jubilee. This new nectarine is very large in size,
larger than any except Zealandia; bright red in the sun, dull red
in the shade; flavor exquisite, flesh greenish white, melting, and
very sweet; a prodigious bearer. Young transplanted trees in the
nursery rows were carrying fruit, and the branches of the older
trees were bending down with the weight of fruit. The points in
this nectarine are its heavy cropping, large size, and delicious
flavor."

43141. "Goldmine. The fruit is of enormous size. It is a perfect
freestone, the pit being extremely small for so large a fruit. The
fruit is a beautiful cream color, tender, juicy, melting, sugary, and
of most delicious flavor; color bright bronzy red; season of ripen-
ing, second week of February; a very heavy cropper."
43142. 66 Lippiatt's Late Orange."

43143. "Muir's Seedling. A new seedling of the Goldmine type,
resembling that variety in size and color, but ripening when Gold-
mine is all finished, thus prolonging the season and an acquisition
on that account."

43144. "New Boy. Fruit of large size and extremely handsome,
covered all over with brilliant crimson; flesh white, juicy, sugary,
and of exquisite flavor; tree very hardy and a profuse cropper;
one of the best."

43145. "Radium. A new nectarine of large size, orange shaped,
highly colored, very sweet; ripens just after Goldmine. It is quite
free from that objectionable point which all the large nectarines
possess; therefore, for packing, Radium comes first."
43146. "Surecrop. A seedling of my own raising, which resembles
Goldmine in size and appearance, but is a much heavier cropper.
It has never failed to carry a full crop. I have every confidence
in recommending this grand new nectarine.”

43147. CITRUS SINENSIS (L.) Osbeck. Rutaceæ.

Orange.

"Best Seedless. A new local seedling of great merit and, as its name indicates, perfectly seedless; in quality one of the finest we have ever sampled and sure to become a great favorite; the most vigorous of all oranges."

See footnote, p. 9.

43124 to 43187-Continued.

43148. ERIOBOTRYA JAPONICA (Thunb.) Lindl. Malaces.

Loquat.

“Thames Prize. Named so from the fact that it has always carried off the prize at the Thames show, the district of its origin; fruit of large size and very fleshy. Tree very vigorous."

43149 and 43150. FRAGARIA sp. Roseceæ.

Strawberry.

43149. "Melba. Fruit large, brilliant red, and of the best flavor when grown in good land; with plenty of moisture it will bear good crops from the beginning of November to May. As the young runners commence to fruit as soon as well rooted, they should be left, making beds, say, 3 feet vide, grown into a solid mass. Although the fruit is covered with foliage, it will still be fully colored. I would strongly recommend this variety to strawberry growers."

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43150. Phenomenal. A remarkably early variety; fruit large, splendid flavor and color, carrying well; extremely vigorous. This variety is without doubt the finest carrying strawberry we know of and one that will often produce good autumn crops." 43151 to 43174. MALUS SYLVESTRIS Mill. Malaces.

(Pyrus malus L.)

43151. "Bella Davis. Dessert."

Apple.

43152. "Carlton. A blight-proof seedling from Northern Spy; fruit
very large, yellow, striped carmine; flesh crisp and juicy; tree
a heavy cropper and bears young; season late."

43153. "Cliff's Seedling. Raised from pips of Northern Spy; fruit
medium to large, Pearmain shaped. It is highly colored; flavor
exquisite; flesh yellow, crisp, and juicy, blight proof, late."
43154. "Climax. Dessert. Another perfectly blight-proof apple,
raised by Mr. J. F. Smith. Fruit is above medium size and round-
ish, skin clear waxy yellow, streaked and dotted on the sunny side
with lively crimson; flesh yellow, crisp, juicy, tender, and of hon-
eyed sweetness." (C. A. Nobelius's catalogue.)

43155. "Coldstream Guards. A first-class early summer dessert
apple; size medium to large; smooth, round, of bright color and
very taking appearance; can not be too highly recommended for
market; tree healthy, hardy, and a heavy cropper; resembles Red
Astrachan; blight proof."

43156. "Cole's Blushing Bride. A beautiful dessert apple, of most handsome appearance, and somewhat conical in shape; tree a heavy cropper and blight proof; highly recommended; medium.” 43157. "Diadem. Dessert cooking."

43158. "Edward Lippiatt. A blight-proof seedling raised by Mr. W. E. Lippiatt; fruit large, roundish, sometimes oblate; even and regular in outline; skin yellow, streaked with lively crimson; flesh white, crisp, juicy, and sweet, with a fine aromatic perfume and exceedingly rich flavor. Tree vigorous, a heavy and early bearer. A most vigorous apple for commercial and home use."

See footnote, p. 9.