Black Diamond Raspberry. 
THE Black Diamond Raspberry is the sweetest, most prolific, hardiest, freest from disease a 
^ thriftiest Raspberry IN THE WORLD, and you should own some of them for the follow' 
reasons: 
First— Because no other Raspberry comes to you so well recommended by the besthorticulturis 
in the country, and by the leading experimental stations. The Rural New Yorker says — "T 
drupelets are twice the size of the Cumberland. It is among the earliest and wonderfully prolific " 
Second— For a small investment, you can have an abundance of this choice fruit for your famil 
Third— By propagating carefully from a dozen plants, in three years you can have a stock lar 
enough for three acres. 1 
Fourth— There is money in it for you, as the following actual results from our fields will shoi 
And while you read these results, bear in mind that during the time they were obtained it wasT 
"off" season for Raspberries, and they were selling so low that growers of other varieties had 
plow up their fields or lose money. With the Black Diamond we made money while others lo 
money with the Ohio, Gregg and other leading kinds. ' 
In 1896 we planted a field of si.x acres to Black Diamond, and in 1897 we harvesteti over 9 01 
quarts of choice fruit. In 1898 our yield was over 33,ii()0 quarts, and in 1899 over 28,000 qufirl 
or a total of 70.000 quarts from the field, four years old from setting. The berries were so thick ( 
the plants, it was no uncommon thing for a picker to make over $2 per day at ij^ cents per quart, 
70,000 quarts, at 4 cents per quart, are worth $2800 00 
Picking 70,000 quarts, at 1% cents per quart $10.50 00 
Care and fertilization of land at $10 per acre for four years 240 00 1290 00 
Profit for four years $1G10 00 
Profit for one year on six acres 402 50 
Profit per acre per year 67 09 
Fifth— All kinds of business has its"ups"and "downs". The Raspberry business has just pasi 
through its period of "downs", and is coming to a time of prosperity. 
Sixth— Good business judgment, and the testimony of others who have had experience,show tl 
it is a good, sate and very profitable investment to make. ' 
Read a few of our many testimonials, and if these are not enough, write for more. 
Gentlemen:—! resard the Blaelc Diamond as the liest berry I liave ever fa'ow'''iiyau'?f iTi'a ve'^liaa some^^er^pi 
■with almut all the vai'ietie.i iiitnuliieed hero for the past, tljirtv vi ars. It ,-i<mil)iu(:s the followiu" o-ood aualit 
viz: First (iiiality— It iias the richest flavor of any hiaelt rap, and is ])rol>aldy the sweetest. Second, productr 
ness— \v itU Its stron.i; fri'owtli and niunerous side-lvrani-lies iirndiiciufr I'niit-siinrs, it will oiitvield any herrv I in 
ever grown. Third, freedom from l>lisiit No antln ai iio,<e, i nst or l.la.'k hlii;lil. where otiier varieties on tlie sai 
gronud have been badly infected with disease. This eonibiiuition of udod iiualitios make it THE lierry for nie 
STOW. Yours truly, L. .1. BRYANT, Market Uardeuer. 
_ ,, , nr.. , "^''"''^ A.^-i-icultnral Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 
Gentlemen :— The Blaelc Diamond gn.vc iis its first fniit tins season. It promises to lie a valualile acuiiisition 
our list of Hlack Kaspliernes. Our notes on l iiis variety aic, as follows: l<'riiit lar^c size, Kood color and ouali 
P,''"' productive ; plants stronj; and viKoroiis, worfliy of fiirtlier testing. We have not ligured up the yield 
the ditlereut varieties, so we are unable to give you the comparative productiveness of the Black Diamond 
Very truly, VV. PADDOCK. 
Yonkors, N. Y. 
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Yours very truly, T. T. CRANE, 
2(1, 
and 
Gentlemen:— RepIyinK to yours of the Cth, would say you may send me, October 20, the Blaek Diaiiio ml I lia 
no means of determinui); the quantity produced liy tlio Hhiek Diamond, as tlie lioys know a ijood t.liiu"- wlieu tli 
niid them, and tliey liavi' left me only eiioufrli to .ifct a sample of thi^ir mosl, cxeHleiit llavor wliich T re.'-inl 
UKM'e iinportauee than the (luautity. Tlie Black Diamond 1 i c-arcl as "pa r cKcellenl" of Ka.splierries. 
Very tru ly yours, T. T.' CRANE. 
r. ^, , , . The Rural New Yorker, New York N Y. 
Gentlemen :-I!laek Di.amond Is nnp, of the most productive hIacU-caps we h.avo ever tru'd. Its scas.oi' is 0 
f.Srilftlh./ 't V'''^!'''' ■'"''■'''"^ (JrcKK. Drupelets large, with some hlooni (the oii 
objection to It.) The cjiiality was vi^ry Knod. Truly yours,, K (• CARMAN 
Tlie JVf7i, I V), Xv, , later than above, in an issue of Hk. pajier, sl,ates :— "]:in,ek Diauinii'd has.ilierrv V, 
reecjved during' the hpriii,i; of i.s'.ii;. We lliid this hiack-eap anion,- l ljc, most iirodm l iM. hhu-k-.-a ps ever tesleil i 
the Rural Grounds. 'J Ini lierries are as lar,L'e as tliose of tlic lire^'-.l he drupelets hcinic t,\viee, as lal ire as those off 
( nmberlaiid. I le tjuallly is very Kood. It is aiiioli!; the earliest and winnlerfnilv iiroiilii-, tli,. „„,, ol,i,.,-lioii hcil 
hat tlK^ berries have too niuc, ornji." -niis "ob.jeeMon", in our eyes, is raflier a, merit than an obieetion for tl 
lesii iriiit, (■veil aller slaiidiin; several da.vs, has iioni! of the ureen lia,lf-ri|,e look cd' sneli varieties as the Oliioar 
(.itKK. lHitsliowsajetlilacktiiroiife'li the bloom. The dried fruit is ujet blaek, and commands the very higW 
