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Dahlias 



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eNewBerr 

 IIP Giant Himalaya 



A briary vine like a blackberry, which grows forty feet a year unless 



trimmed. New growth starts from ends of last year's branches and tips. 



Berries are borne on old and new wood alike. A hundred thousand vines 



came through our severe Michigan winter without an inch of deadwood 



and without the slightest winter killing. The berries are black, roundish, 



an inch long, as good as strawberries— flesh solid all the way through. 



They are so firm that they may be shipped and re-shipped. One man sold 



$30.00 worth from two plants in their second year. We get ten tons an acre from- 



three-year old plants, and sell them all quick at sixteen cents a quart. We are 



growers — and the original introducers in the East. Himalava plants grow best 



when planted after the soil is warm. They can be successfully planted as late 



as July 15th. 



A Berry For Every Purpose 



Himalaya is a perennial just the same as an apple, bearing on the 

 old fruit-spurs extremely juicy, lusciou- berries. They are delirious 

 when served uncooked for desert, and may be used for alnv>st ev_-r\ 

 purpose for which I errles are adapted. Three times as much jam 

 or jelly may be made from Himalaya than with ordinary black- 

 berries. La^t year we sent Giant Himalaya Berrv plants lo over 

 fourteen hundred different people, and everyone was satisfied. 



1 have seen the Giant Himalaya Berry growing 

 and fruiting at the Eerrydale Experment Gardens, 

 and consider it the best cropping blackberry I knoiv 

 of. I noticed branches on which there were from 

 fifty to a hundred berries. These were jet black, 

 and the size of a Lawton berry. Its blossoms 

 c->me late, and crops are sure. It will stand 

 more frost than any berry »\ e have ever had here. 

 I shall plant two and a half acres of Himalaya ' 

 next spring. C.KRAUS, Holland, Mich , Oct.19'10 



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