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THE LOVETT COMPANY, LITTLE SILVER, N. /. 



Sketched from Nature. /\!so the berries that appear in colored frontispiece. 



A hybrM between the blackberry and red raspberry produced in California and the most 

 valuable addition to the list of small fruits that has appeared during the past fifty years. The 

 berries are very large; fully equaling in size the largest blackberries, which they resemble 

 in form and structure, but are deep reddish-maroon in color; melting, without core, and of 

 rich sprightly flavor — a mingling of the red raspberry and blackberry, mellowed and re- 

 fined — as luscious as it is novel; and as Jirni as a blackberry. 



The canes are of strong, vigorous growth with an abundance of large, dark green leath- 

 ery foliage, resembling that of the raspberry more than the blackberry and are semi-trailing 

 in habit; are without the large sharp thorns of the blackberry, but with numerous fine red 

 spines like those upon red raspberries. They are entirely hardy without protection and enor- 

 mously prolific. 



A delicious fruit for dessert that cannot fail to please the popular palate, and equally 

 desirable for canning. For jellies and jams it is said to be unequaled. What adds special 

 value to this unique fruit is its season of ripening, maturing as it does in advance of rasp- 

 berries, far in advance of blackberries— and at the close of the strawberry season. At 

 Monmouth the past summer it was fully ripe on June 24 — before we could gather the first 

 red raspberries — and continued for a long season; perfecting its last berries and bringing 

 them up to full size. 



Having fruited this new fruit in field culture we speak from, experience as to its hardi- 

 ness and other valuable properties. By reason of its many merits we are convinced it is of 

 the greatest value, both for the home garden and for profit. 



Price, ea., 50c; 3 for $1.25; doz., $4.00; 100, $25.00. 



Editor's Office of The Sun.- New Tork, June 27th, 1895. 

 Gentlemen: Many gentlemen are building in my neighborhood and probably want trees, etc. In fact one 

 party who has heard our praises of your stock so often, has asked for your address. It is a fact that everything 

 had of you — apples, cherries, plums, apricots, currants, raspberries, etc., etc. — now iu full bearing, could not be 

 improved upon. It may be because I have them carefully looked after, but the quality of the frinf [the italics 

 are his] could not be excelled. You are at liberty to refer the parties named tome, where they maycall aud see 

 for themselves. I offer this simply as your due. for the fair dealing received at your hands, when I had to leave 

 all to you; fruit-growing being an enigma to me. Your.s truly. A. D. Smith. 



