LovcttS Illustrated Catalogue 



fOR THE 

 8PRING or 

 1902. 



Another year has passed and gone, and it becomes my privilege to 

 again offer sincere and profound thanks to all who have honored me 

 with their patronage. 

 Anyone having a copy of my first catalogue, issued in 1878. will observe 

 it is devoted almost exclusively to the Small Fruits. During the period 

 from that time until the present I have introduced many varieties of 

 berries, which have proved of great value — notably the Gandy and Lovett 

 Strawberries, the Cuthbert and Golden Queen Raspberries. Believing, by 

 so doing, I can better ser\'e my patrons, I am again devoting my be.st thoughts 

 and energies to the growing of Small Fruits for market and their plants for sale, as 

 of old. I may here state, it affords me a great deal of pleasure to be in a position to offer this spring 

 new varieties of such sterling merit as Lester Lovett and Doman Strawberries, King, Cumberland, 

 and Cardinal Raspberries, and, last and greate.st of them all, the Mersereau Blackberry. 



Being convinced by the experience of the past twenty years that it is a serious error to offer a long 

 list of varieties I have, as will be seen by referring to the following pages, used the pruning knife with 

 vigor, and catalogue only those varieties which are of distinctive and positive merit. Yet I offer an 

 assortment in each class, covering the whole season, from earliest to late.st, and all those which succeed 

 on all soils North, South, East and West. 



In order to have virgin soil, I am growing my Small Fruits at Deal, X. J., upon land especially 

 adapted to their development and remote from any district infested with the dreaded San Jose scale. 

 However, to make a.ssurance doubly sure that no nursery stock received from me shall have any taint 

 of the pest, everything shipped by me the coming spring upon which the San Jose scale can subsi-st, wlQ 

 be treated by hydrocyanic acid gas, under instructions of the entomologist of the State of New Jersey ; 

 which treatment is immediate and sure death to this and all other insects. The accompanying illustra- 

 tion is from a photograph of my fumigating house, which, in design and con.struction, has received the 

 commendation of our State Entomologist, Prof. John B. Smith. 



Fumigating House. 



So. 14. ly.il . 



I NEW JERSEY STATE 

 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



j OSce of the State Entomologist. 



! New Bhunswick, N. J., October let, 1901. 



This Is to certify, That I have this first day of 

 ! October, 1901, examined tiie nursery stock grow- 

 ; ing on the Lovett Nurseries, J. T."^ Lovett. Pro- 

 I prietor, at Deal Beach, Monmouth County, New 

 ' Jersey, and have found the same apparently free 

 from San Jose Scale and other dangerously injuri- 

 ous insect pests ; also, that the small fruit, shade 

 I and ornamental stock examined was in appar- 

 I ently healthy condition. 



This certificate is good only for the shipping 

 season of the Fall of 1901 and Spring of 1902, and 

 covers only stock actually grown on the nurs- 

 eries examined. 



John- B. Smith, State Entomologist. 



