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LA GRANGE 



"A Russian product, having been brought from 

 that Arctic country fourteen years ago, and has 

 been fruited by Mr, La Grange in Vermilion 

 County, Illinois, for the past twelve years, and 

 in that time it has not received any injury from 

 cold winters. It is the hardiest berry yet intro- 

 duced; it grows on canes like the Lawton or 

 Snyder, but diflfers from them as regards fruit 

 stems. This plant sends out its fruit stems from 

 the ground up and each fruit stem has ample 

 foliage, each berry having a leaf. The fruit ripens 

 in the shade, which materially adds to its flavor. 

 Other varieties produce their fruit mostly at the 

 top of the canes, which are almost bare of foliage, 

 and consequently are often sun-scalded. When the 

 berries from the first bloom are about two-thirds 

 grown, there comes on a second crop of bloom as 

 profuse as the first ; in ripening one cannot tell 

 when the berries from the first blooms end and 

 where fruits from second blooms begin. The first 

 fruit ripens about July 10th and remains in bear- 

 ing from thirty to thirty-five days. It is not an 

 everbearer. It is very productive, one-ninth of 

 an acre yielding 571 quarts. Rev. J. R. Reasoner 

 estimated 5,000 quarts per acre. It is free from 

 any hard core, and has but few seeds. The best 

 and largest berry yet produced, sixty-five berries 

 filling a quart box full; a single berry measuring 

 four and a half inches in circumference. Prof. 

 Forbes says it is freer from disease than any 

 Blackberry he has ever seen." — Introducer. 



I have fruited this variety and find it very 

 much as described above. The canes are of sturdy, 

 stocky habit, the berries of good size, jet black 

 and of excellent quality. Root cutting plants, 

 dozen, 60c.; 100, $3.50; 'l,000, $25.00. 



WARD 



All admirers of the once popular Kittatinny 

 will be especially delighted with this. It is a 

 strong, vigorous grower, hardy, and bears an- 

 nually enormous crops of large, handsome ber- 

 ries of the finest quality, which always command 

 the highest price in market. Ward originated in 



Monmouth County, New Jersey, has been fully 

 tested in field culture, and highly recommended 

 by the New Jersey State Horticultural Society. 



Mr. J. H. Hale, ex-president of the American 

 Pomological Society, says: "Of large size, jet 

 black color, firm for shipment, yet tender and 

 melting all through, without core and of highest 

 quality. I thought I had seen blackberries be- 

 fore, but Ward caps the climax." 



Root cutting plants, dozen, 35c:; 100, $1.50; 

 l.ODO, $10.00. Sucker plants, dozen, 30c. ; 100, 

 $1^5; 1.000, $8.50. 



ELDORADO.— Especially valuable for its fine 

 quality and hardiness of cane. The berries are 

 of good size, glossy jet black, sweet and melting. 

 Canes of good growth and productive. Dozen, 

 3&?.; 100, $1.50; 1,000, $12.00. 

 / 



/ ICEBERG.— The best white blackberry yet in- 

 troduced. The berries are a snowy translucent 

 white, sweet and tender, borne in large clusters 

 very profusely. An unique 

 / f - ~ variety. The fruit of this 



variety, mingled with black 

 ones, presents a beautiful 

 and appetizing dish. Not 

 entirely hardy at the far 

 north. INIidseason. The 

 berries are reduced to half 

 natural size in the cut. 

 p? Root cutting plants, dozen, 

 40c.; 100, $2.00; 1,000, 

 $15.00. 



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