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RED AND PURPLE RASPBERRIES— continued 
experimental stations as the greatest yielding and finest all-round raspberry in existence. 
We have no hesitation in saying that there has never been a raspberry put on the 
market in the United States or Canada that has proven so universally successful as the 
Herbert. From all over the continent — North, South, East, West — come most flattering 
accounts of its behavior from the most uninterested authorities in each of the two countries. 
Kansas is the only state from which we get a report detrimental to this great berry, one 
man there reporting that it was not hardy in that state. There may be something in the 
climate of that state that kills a plant that is hardy in Peace Biver Territory, where the 
thermometer goes to 59 degrees below zero. Twelve plants were mailed to the Government 
Experimenter at Fort Vermillion, Peace Eiver Territory, 400 miles directly north of Edmon- 
ton, Alberta, in the spring of 1908, 1100 miles nearer the North Pole than Boston. After 
traveling nearly 3000 miles by train in a mail bag, they had 700 miles to go by team on the 
trail, which left them very late in arriving, and in not the best condition, but four plants 
survived and made a nice growth, which stood that winter and had about a pint of fine fruit 
the next summer. The thermometer there registered 51 degrees below zero in Decem- 
ber and 59 below in January and February. 
From Bulletin No. 56 by W. T. Macoun, horticulturist at the Central Experimental Farm 
at Ottawa. We take the following lists of yields, which is the average from 12 plants for 
three years: 
Herbert 30 lbs. 7% oz. 
Turner 15 lbs. 13 oz. 
Herstine 14 lbs. 4 oz. 
Columbian 11 lbs. 9% oz. 
Marlboro 7 lbs. 12 y 2 oz. 
Loudon 7 lbs. 12 oz. 
Shaffer 6 lbs. 10% oz. 
King 5 lbs. 15 oz. 
Golden Queen 4 lbs. 15% oz. 
(Cuthbert has been a failure, owing to winter injury to the canes) 
From this table we see the enormous superiority in yield of Herbert over all other vari- 
eties. Prof. Bailey, one of the best authorities in the world, places the average crop of 
raspberries per acre at from 54 to 100 bushels. Estimating the average yield, as reported 
by 56 growers, Card found the average to be 69 bushels per acre. But at the Experimental 
Farm, Ottawa, in 1904, Herbert produced at the rate of 319 bushels and 26 lbs. per acre, or 
nearly five times as much as the average. This is simply wonderful. Imagine a pile of rasp- 
berries twice as large as the average crop of potatoes coming off the same amount of ground. 
Our stock is absolutely pure. • 
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