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Shaffer's Colossal — This variety is certainly rightly named, for it is truly colossal, 

 both in plant and fruit, The plant is the strongest and largest grower, and yields 

 an immense crop of dark red berries. The fruit is of a sprightly sub-acid flavor. 

 This is a cap variety and increases from the tips like the black caps. 



Japanese Raspberry (Wineberry)— Berry round; deep red, glossy; handsome; 

 of medium size and fairly firm. Borne in large clusters, and each berry at first 

 tightly enveloped by the large calyx, forming a sort of burr, which is covered with 

 purplish red hairs. These gradually open and turn back, exposing the fruit. The 

 canes are covered with purplish red hairs, which extend along the stem to its 

 extremity ; the leaves are large, tough, dark green above, and silvery grey beneath. 

 Of no value for market purposes. 



* Golden Queen— A beautiful, large, golden yellow berry, seedling of the Cuthbert, 

 and surpassing that variety in size, beauty, quality and adaptability, succeeding in 

 all sections. Canes hardy, of strongest growth, wonderfully productive. Should 

 be in every home garden, its beauty and high quality placing it at the head for 

 table use. 



Japanese Golden Mayberry — A cross between a Japan Mayberry and one of our 



cultivated varieties, supposed Cuthbert, raised by that celebrated experimenter and 

 introducer of new fruits, Luther Burbank, of California, who describes it as follows: 

 "The earliest raspberry ever known. The berries are of a golden straw color, as 

 large as Cuthbert, and ripen before strawberries. The bushes are distinct from all 

 others, growing like trees, 6 to 8 feet high, with spreading tops ; and all along the 

 branches large, white, Avell shaped blossoms are pendant, which are soon followed 

 by the great, sweet, glossy, golden, semi -translucent berries. The plants when well 

 established, will surprise one with their abundance of fruit." To be planted as a 

 novelty only. 



Strawberry-Raspberry— This is an entirely new fruit, both in habit of growth and 

 form of fruit. Bushes grow i to 3 feet high, and are covered with raspberries in the 

 shape of strawberries. They are upright in manner of setting. Said to be very 

 productive and a valuable novelty. 



Plant on good land, moderately manured. Rows 7 feet apart, three feet in the rows 

 for fields ; prune as with Raspberries. Form a hedge or tie to wire. Cultivate shallow. 



I$arly Harvest — This is one of the earliest Blackberries yet produced, ripening two 

 weeks before Wilson's Farly. The berry is of fair size (not large ); long form ; a 

 splendid shipper and of good quality. It is hardy and excessively prolific, its great- 

 est fault being its disposition to overbear. While a good berry in other respects, its 

 distinctive value is its earliness. 



"I£rie — This superb new fruit originated in northern Ohio, not far from the shore of Lake 

 Erie. It is the best hardy variety yet introduced ; very productive, not having failed 

 in producing a fme^rop each year since it was originated ; foliage clean and healthy, 

 free from rust ; fruit large, about the size of Lawton ; round in form, giving it the 

 appearance of being larger than it really is. Good quality ; ripens early. 



