Raspberries 



If to he sent hy inail add Ific. 'per 100. Mailed free at dozen rates when desired. 



Prepare the ground thoroughly and manure liberally. The red, or upright-growing, varieties should 

 be planted, for field culture, in rows six feet apart, and the plants three feet distant in rows requiring 2,420 

 plants per acre, or four feet apart each way to be cultivated in hills; in garden culture, plant three feet apart 

 each way and restrict to hills. It is best to place two plants in each hill. As soon as planted cut back the 

 canes to within a few inches of the ground. 



The cap varieties, for field culture, should be planted in rows seven feet apart and three and a half feet 

 distant in the rows; for garden culture, plant four feet apart each way. 



Keep the soil loose and free of weeds throughout the season, cutting out the suckers with a hoe or cul- 

 tivator, leaving only a single row or three to four canes to the hill for fruiting the following year. Prune 

 the bearing canes of the upright-growing varieties by cutting back one-third to one-half their length and 

 shorten the laterals to six or nine inches. In pruning cap varieties, cut the canes at the middle of the bend. 



ST. REGIS EVERBEARING 

 The " early till late " Raspberry 



During the forty years I have been engaged in the nursery business, many valuable Raspberries, 

 Blackberries, Strawberries, etc., have been placed upon the market, but during that long period there has 

 not been introduced by me nor anybody else, another berry of any land of such great value, all things con- 

 sidered, as the St. Regis Raspberry. It is paying off mortgages and otherwise bringing prosperity to fruit 

 growers in all parts of the country and will continue to do so until the markets of this great land are f ully 

 supphed with its fruit — many years in the future. 



It is sad, however, to be obliged to state that like all good things in this age, it has not escaped the 

 attention of the rogue; who, not unlike a counterfeiter is sending out spurious and mixed plants for the 

 St. Regis and which cannot fail to bring loss and disappointment to those who plant them. And these 

 worse than worthless plants are being shipped to fruit growers by the thousand and tens of thousands. A 

 gentleman — and a fine old gentleman he is — living in Illinois writes me he planted in the fall of 1910 several 

 thousand plants which he bought for St. Regis "under a guarantee" and now, after waiting two years, 

 finds that not one of them is the true variety. He can get no reply from the parties who shipped them 

 and with his bright hopes turned to sorrow he has the task before him of clearing his land of plants that 

 are worse than weeds. 



The St. Regis has sustained the broad claims made for it. I append the description that appeared 

 in former editions of my catalog. I have nothing to "take back," though could add much did space per- 

 mit. It is as f oUows : 



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