More Promising New Fruits

by William A. Taylor, Pomologist, Bureau of Plant Industry
excerpted from the Yearbook of the US Department of Agriculture, 1910

TAMOPAN PERSIMMON

The fruiting of this variety in America has thus far been restricted to North Carolina and Florida. Its cold endurance is therefore not yet determined, but it is considered promising for experimental planting in the territory south of the Potomac, Ohio, and Missouri rivers and on the Pacific coast. Its northern source in China suggests the possibility of sufficient hardiness to thrive as far north as our native persimmon succeeds.

HOOSIER RASPBERRY

This very promising black cap raspberry originated on the farm of the late John W. Durm, 4 miles east of Pekin, Indiana, about 1895, as the result of a definite effort to produce a variety that should be both very hardy and resistant to anthracnose. It is said to be a cross between Gregg and Mammoth Cluster.