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THE LOVETT COMPANY. 



Thompson's 

 Early Prolific, 



Of value on ac- 

 count of its ear- 

 liness, firmness 

 and bright col- 

 or. It is similar 

 in size and color 

 to Brandywine, 

 but it is of bet- 

 ter quality, ri- 

 pens from a 

 week to ten days 

 earlier and is 

 more product- 

 ive. Owing to its 

 tough, healthy 

 foliage and 

 at the South. Doz., 40c: 



hardy canes it does well 

 100, 11.00; 1,000, $8.00. 



Turner {Southern Tliomless), Extremely hardy and 

 desirable as an early sort for the home garden, but too 

 soft for market purposes. The canes make a strong, 

 healthy growth and are very productive. Berries of 

 good size, bright crimson color, soft and of honeyed 

 sweetness. Early. Doz., 40c; 100, $1.00; 1,000, $7.00 



JAPANESE WINEBERRY. 



The Wineberry has caused no little stir in the horti- 

 cultural world, and much has been said and written 

 concerning it, but after all said and done there re- 

 mains nothing but praise for it. It pleases everyone 

 and its ornamental character, to say nothing of its fine 

 fruit, renders it a highly desirable acquisition in every 

 garden in the land. It is a large, robust grower, per- 

 fectly hardy and enormously prolific ; and the canes 

 are thickly covered with purplish-red hairs, which ex- 

 tend along the stem to its extremity. The leaves are 

 large, tough, dark green above, and silvery-gray be- 

 neath. The fruit. is borne in large clusters, and each 

 berry is at first tightly enveloped by the large calyx, 

 forming a sort of bm'r, which is also covered with pur- 

 plish-red hairs so thickly as to present the appearance 

 of moss rose buds. These gradually open and turn back, 

 exposing the fruit in all its beauty. The berries are of 

 a beautiful, translucent appearance, running through 

 all the shades of amber to crim:;on as they ripen. There 

 is a freshness and brilliancy ab6ut them impossible to 



describe, and we know of nothing in the way of rasp- 

 berries so attractive. A bush in full fruiting is a sight 

 not readily to be forgotten and a decided ornament to 

 the garden. In quality it is quite distinct, but a de- 

 cided brisk sub-acid. When cooked it is grand, retain- 

 ing its rich and sprightly flavor, and surpassing when 

 canned or preserved even the Huckleberry. For jelly 

 making it is without an equal. It begins ripening in 

 July, the berries are produced in great abimdance, and 

 it continues in bearing for a long time. Grows readily 

 from seed. Ea., 10c; 3 for 2.5c; doz., 75c. {by mail); 100, 

 $3.00; 1000, $20.00. Transplanted plants, {too large to 

 mail), ea., 15c; 3 for 35c; doz., $1.00; 100, $5.00. Seed 

 15c per pkt. ; 2 pkts. for 25c. 



DWARF ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHERRY. 



Of all the fruit introduced from the West this appears to be the 

 most valuable. It is as hardy as an oak, having withstood a temper- 

 ature of forty degrees below zero, imharmed in either fruit-bud or 

 branch. It is one of the most productive of all fruits, sixteen quarts 

 of fruit having been picked from of: a three-years-old bush and 

 eighty cherries off a branch, twelve inches long, of a two-yeai's-old 

 bush. The illustration here given, which is fi-om a photograph of a 

 branch, will give some idea of its productiveness. The fruit is jet 

 black when fully ripe, averages somewhat larger than the Enghsh 

 Morello, its season of ripening being after all others are gone. In 

 quality and flavor it is akin to the sweet cheri'ies, excellent in flavor 

 and a pleasant fruit for eating out of hand. 



This Cherry is of a bushy habit of growi;h, rarely exceeding f our 

 feet in height, and is really a flne ornamental shi'ub that would grace 

 any lawn, bearing in sprmg a mass of beautiful white bloom. The 

 advent of this very desirable dwarf cherry will fill a much needed 

 want, viz., that of a productive dwai-f cherry tree for family gar- 

 dens, for which its early bearing — it begins to fruit at two years old 

 — and ease of culture renders it admirably adapted. "We consider it 

 a decided acquisition for garden cultivation. Having a large stock 

 we offer it at very low rates, viz. : Ea., 20c; 3 for 50c; doz., $1.50; 

 100, $10.00 (py mail). 



