RED AND PURPLE RASPBERRIES — continued 
dark green foliage. The only variety known 
that gives a crop of fruit the same year 
planted, and two crops a year thereafter. 
Plants set in early spring will give a small 
crop of fruit the fall following, and the next 
spring a big crop equaling that of any red 
raspberry known. In size, quantity and 
quality, to say nothing of its fall-bearing 
qualities, it is ahead of anything that we 
know of as a spring or summer-bearing vari- 
ety. About the middle of August it com- 
mences to set fruit on the young canes, and 
bears continuously from then until frost. The 
berries are large, beautiful and attractive. If 
you have failed with every other variety of 
raspberry, either North or South, plant St. 
Eegis and succeed. Whether growing for 
home use or market you cannot afford to ig- 
nore this, the most wonderful of all rasp- 
berries. 
Perfection — A new raspberry from the Hud- 
son Valley that is being largely planted 
where it is known. It is a strong grower and 
hardy. Berries bright crimson, of mammoth 
and uniform size. It is immensely produc- 
tive and continues to bear through a long 
season. This variety is being planted to the 
exclusion of all other varieties at its 
home where hundreds of acres of red 
raspberries are grown each year. 
Ruby — This Ruby variety originated in*] 
the great fruit growing district of the 
Hudson V alley, and for the past ten years 
is the leading red raspberry grown there. 
C. J. Velie & Son. (fruit growers) in introducing this 
berry says: "The Ruby Raspberry is a seedling of the well-known Marl- 
boro. It partakes of its parent in its babit of growth, but is much more 
hardy and vigor- 
pus. Canes grow- 
ing six ormore feet 
The Herbert 
St. Regis 
in heighth with 
good strong foli- 
age. The fruit is 
borne in great quantities, a very prolific bearer and of large size, 
a good bright color and firm. An excellent 
shipping berry. It has proved itself to be the 
most profitable sort wherever tried. Ripens 
with the earliest." 
Herbert 
The Herbert Raspberry is a 
chance seedling that sprang up 
in 1887 in the garden of R. B. 
Whyte, one of the most promi- 
nent and best known horticul- 
turists in the City of Ottawa, 
Canada. It has undergone a 
thorough test beside all the 
other varieties, as well as the 
later introductions, and has 
completely outclassed them all. 
It has been thoroughly tested, 
not only by the originator 
who, although a most scruou- 
lous and conscientious man, 
may be accused of over-zeal- 
ousness, but also by several 
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