TWO VALUABLE ACQUISITIONS IN SMALL FRUITS. 



Champion Gooseberry and Pride of the MarkA Currant. 



UOPYRiGKT 



BY W.C. BEGKERT. 



Both of these valuable varieties are almost entire strangers to the 

 public. They originated and are the property of a well known 

 Small Fruit Grower of this section, with whom we have arranged 

 for their general introduction. Having a lifetime intimate ac- 

 quaintance with the owner of. as well as a perfect knowledge of the 

 fruits in question, we can with entire confidence recommend them 

 to our patrons as acquisitions superior to anything of their class that 

 has come to our notice or of which we have any knowledge. Not- 

 withstanding that we have only a limited stock to work on, we v\ill 

 send out only strong, vigorous plants. 



Champion Gooseberry. The fruit as shown here faithfully rep- 

 resents tlie form and average size, being an accurate engraving from 

 a photograph and the actual fruit. The Champion is not onlj^ a 

 zicry large berry, but very productive as well, /j quarts of fruit have 

 been picked off single stalks, and those not very large plants either. 

 The full grown fruit is deep green in color, and fully a month 



elapses from the time it is full grown until it is well ripened. As 

 gooseberries are much sold in the green and semi-ripe state, this 

 allows a lengthened period of time to market the crop, enabling the 

 grower to take advantage of a favorable market; they have always 

 commanded a ready sale at advanced prices. When ripe the fruit 

 is light amber in color, and of fine quality. The plant is quite 

 thorny, with deep green foliage, a vigorous grower and heavier in 

 the wood than most other sorts, and has so far never been subject to 

 mildew. Gooseberries are oi precarious vitality when planted in the 

 spring, and we will only book orders for fall delivery. 



Price for Fall Delivery, 60c each, 86 per dozan. 



Pride of the flarlcet Currant. As with the foregoing the Illus- 

 tration is a true representation, and taken in similar manner. 

 What we there state for size and productiveness will likewise answer 

 here The '••Pride of the Markef' is as productive as the old Red 

 Dutch currant and as large as the '-Fay's Prolific^ Eighteen quarts 

 have been picked off single plants. Fruit dark cherry red in color, 

 equal to the best in quality. Plants upright and strong in growth, 

 entirely free from the low straggling habit of the Fay's. 



Frio* for Spring or Fall I>«llT«ry, eOo each, •« par 



of the iV^arkei 



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BV W,B,BECKEHT, 



