J. T. Lovett Co.— Raspberries. 



What those who know it well say of the Lovett. 



LMr. Wood, the discoverer, who Is a Fruit Grower at d Vegetable Gardener of loug and \\ide experi- 

 ence gives the following history of the Lovett. We would add that Mr. W. is a man whose word is as 

 good as his bond.] 



"When I purchased my place fifteen years ago, there was growing upon it a row of blackcaps some 

 thirty feet long, which were seedings picked up wild along the fences, by the former owner. The most of 

 these were worthless, but one plant which stood at the end of a row bore very nice berri s. They had been 

 neglected and were grass-grown. They fruited in this place for two years, aftpr which I dug them up. but 

 saved a few tips from this one plant and set them in a corner of the garden. This t eing a favorable place 

 they bore a crop of berries the second year, that excelled anything I had ever seen. The next year they 

 were simply grand. I got mv neighbor, Dr. Cornett. to come up and see it. He said the fine >how of fruit 

 might be owing to the peculiar location, which seemed quite a favorable one. I therefore allowed a few 

 tips to take root and set out a short row, thirty or forty feet, in the garden where you saw them; at the 

 same time setting a row of Cutbbprt, Gregg, Doollttle, and finishing the row of new ones with Turner. 

 Two years later, when these fruited, this one still showed its superiority in all the points I have claimed 

 for it. I allowed the tips to root that season and planted from them tht four rows which you saw and ex- 

 amined. It was the second or third crop on them which you saw. I never fully realized what I had until 

 I came to gather the berries from those four rows. You are at liberty to use anything I wrote you when 

 describing it to you."— Ezra Wood. 



Some six or eight years ago my neighbor, Mr. Ezra Wood, called my attention to a blackcap raspberry 

 growing, without cultivation, in a fence row. It was a very fine berry, entirely unlike those growing 

 about it, and evidently a chance seeding. From that time until the present I have watched its fruiting 

 every season and know that it is in every respect all that its originator claims for it, viz— as large as the 

 Gregg, more productive, and as early and of better quality than 

 ma ked advantage over these two varieties is that the plant is not so thorny. 

 Pre!<i'ienl Ohio State Horticultural Socieln. 



THO.TIFSOIN'S EARLY PROLIFIC— Remarkable for its earl^ 



the Doolittle or Souhegan. Another 

 Chas. C. Corxett, Vice 



season of ripening. The 

 plant is an excellent grower, the canes 

 erect and stout; hardy, having endured 

 22° below zero without injurv. Foliage 

 of a dark green color, tough and 

 healthy, and endures well heat and 

 drought; here it is free from rust and 

 mildew. The berries are medium to 

 larcre in size, of a strikingly bright, 

 fresh, crimson color, very attractive, 

 which, with its ^^xtreme earliness, cause 

 it to be a profitable market sort. It Is 

 exceedingly productive with us and 

 has received no special care or cultiva- 

 tion. In brief, it is similar to Brandy- 

 wine, of about the same size, with the 

 same bright, fresh color; ripens from a 

 week to 10 days earlier and is very much 

 more productive. It is admirably ad- 

 apted for planting at the South, where 

 it succeeds splendidly, being one of the 

 very few, and the best, that can be 

 satisfactorily grown there. It Is the 

 earliest red raspberry we have seen, 

 coming into bearing just as the straw- 

 berry ieason is over, and ripened at 

 Monmouth in advance of all uther rasp- 

 berries by fully a week. We have also 

 seen It in Ohio equally fine, the canes 

 of stronger growth and yielding a 

 heavy crop of fruit. Reports concern- 

 ing its behavior are exceedingly satis- 

 factory and confirm our opinion of its 

 value as a profitable sort for both mar- 

 ket and family use. The scarcity of 

 good varieties of red raspberries ren- 

 ders this early sort especially valuable 

 and Its earliness and bright appearance 

 make it profitable. 



Thomson's Early Prolific Red Rasp- 

 berry has beaten the record here for 

 earliness. It is! an.euormous grower and stood the winter the best of all that I had.- J. F. Wilson, 

 Clarke Co., Ind. Price, Doz., 50c.; 100, $3.00; 1000, $20.00. 



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