Tne upright growing varieties should be planted, for field culture, in rows of six"feet 'apart, and the 

 plants three feet distant in the rows, requiring 2,400 plants per acre; or four feet each way to he culti- 

 vated in hills, requiring 2,700 plants per acre. It is best to place two plants in each hill, requiring, of 

 course, double the number. In garden culture plant three feet apart each way and restrict to hills. 

 Soon as planted cut back the canes to within a few inches of the ground, and plants set in Autumn should 

 have the soil mounded up over to protect them from frequent freezing and thawing. In field culture 

 plant the cap varieties in rows seven feet apart and three feet six Inches distant in the row, requiring 

 1,775 plants to the acre; or four and a half feet apart each way, requiring 2,153 plants to the acre. In 

 garden culture plaut lour feet apart each way. Fall-set plants should be protected as recommended for 

 other sorts. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



(If to be sent by mail add 10c. per dozen; 40c. per 100 for postage). 



LOVETT or $1000.00 RASPBERRY. 



The Lovett Raspberry, which could with propriety have been named Lovett's Thornless (being prac- 

 tically destitute of thorns), has the past 

 season, fully sustained, in a fruiting 

 held of six acres, all that has been claim- 

 ed for it; and taken all in all has proved 

 Itself to be by far the best black raspber- 

 ry that has yet been put upon the mar- 

 ket. Unlike the Gregg, which it nearly 

 equals in size of berries,it is strongest in 

 growth of cane of any, unless possibly the 

 Ohio. In enormous yield it is without 

 an equal. Add to these properties su- 

 perior quality (it is the finest in flavor of 

 all black raspberries) jet black color, 

 firmness and long life after gathered, 

 adhering to the bush when ripe, and 

 above all, its earliness, (ripening with 

 Souhegan and other very early sorts) and 

 we have in it, what has so long been 

 wanted* and a most valuable fruit. It Is 

 entirely distinct from all other sorts. 

 We have now fruited the variety for five 

 seasons and know positively that it pos- 

 sesses the merits claimed for it. It has 

 received much praise from those who 

 have fruited it and we feel sure that it 

 will give entire satisfaction to all who 

 plant it. In the heme garden especially 

 Its sweet, fine flavor and small seeds 

 will make it welcome, whilst its other 

 prominent characteristics render it the 

 most profitable for market growing. 

 We know of no one who has grown it or who has seen it in bearing that is not loud in its praise, and 

 we have received many testimonials of its value. 



"''The canes are of vigorous growth, the tallest being over six feet. The berries are borne in short 

 racemes something like those of Gregg, are nearly as large, black, glossy with some bloom around the 

 base of the drupelets. They are as firm as it is desirable a blackcap should be; and never drop 

 from the receptacle. There was no marked difference in earliness between the Palmer, Progress and 

 Lovett. Judged from the first season of fruiting, it is an improvement, all things considered, over 

 any variety we have tried."— Rural New Yorker, in "Notes from the Rural Grounds." 



Hennepin Co., Minn., Aug. 22d 1893. 

 Too much cannot be said in praise of the Lovett Blackcap Raspberry. It came through the ter- 

 rible winter as well as any I have, and everyone is loud in its praise. Tours etc., S. R. Spates. 

 Price, doz., 75c; 100, $3.00; 1000, $20.00. 



