Cumberland 
The « Business Black-Cap." 
Largest Black Raspberry Known. 
This new Raspberry originated nine years ago with Mr. David Miller, a life-iong horticul- 
turist and fruit grower, who thoroughly tested it under all conditions. It is offered with the 
assurance that it is the most profitable and desirable market Tf^riety yet known, because of its 
immense size, firmness and great productiveness, well entitling It to the above designation o[ 
"The Business Black Cap." It has undergone a temperature of IG degrees below zero, unpro- 
tected, without injury — a temperature which badly crippled similarly situated plants of Gregg, 
Shaffer, Cuthbert, etc. It is of wonderful pro- 
ductiveness, producing regularly and uniformly 
very large crops. In size, the fruit is simply 
enormous, far surpassing any other variety. 
The berries run seven-eighths and fifteen-six- 
teenths of an inch in diameter. In quality it is 
similar and fully equal to Gregg. Although 
extremely large, it is unusually Urm and is well 
adapted for long shipments. In ripening it fol- 
lows Palmer and precedes Gregg a short time, 
making it a midseason variety. It is an unus- 
ually strong grower, throwing up stout, stocky 
canes, well adaped for supporting their loads 
of large fruit. 
It is thought to be a seedling from Gregg, 
with a dash of blackberry blood in it. The Cum- 
berland is a true raspberry, but it may be of inter- 
est to state that several seedlings from the 
Cumberland have had true blackberry foliage. 
J. W. Kerr, Denton, Md., a well known hor- 
ticulturist, says : 
*' There is no horticultural effervescence in me ; 
otherwise, I would bubble over or burst when I look at 
the fruit on those three plants of Cumberland Rasp- 
berry. I have grown Mammoth Cluster and Gregg that 
were very fine, but this Cumberland Is really a marvel. Fif- 
teen-sixteenths of an inch diameter was the measure of 
as large a berry as I saw of it, but they were all large. 
I let the plants carry all the fruit they set, and they 
were very full. If this season's behavior is a safe crite- 
rion to judge by, I pronounce it vastly superior to any 
Black-cap I know anything of. I never knew any of its 
type to be so long in form as it is." 
