THE RUSHIRE FRUIT FARM, IONIA, MICH. 
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The Bfuskiuguiii is a new variety 
resembling the Shaffer's Colossal, but is 
said to be more firm, of a brighter color and 
less of the objectionable bloom of that vari- 
HANSELL. 
ety. It originated in Ohio, where it has been 
cultivated for several years, and is reported 
entirely hardy. 40c per dozen; $2.00 per 100; 
$6.50 per 500, and $12.00 per 1,000. 
CUTHBERT. 
Number of Plants Required to Set One Acre. 
STRAWBERRIES. GRAPES- 
12x36 inches — 14,520 7x7 feet — 888 
12x48 " — io,8qo 7x8 " —777 
15x48 " — 8,712 7x9 " —691 
20x36 ■" — 8,712 7x10 " — 662 
18x36 " — 9,680 8x8 ■■ —680 
18x42 " — 8,297 8xg " —605 
18x48 " — 7,260 8x10 " —544 
18x54 " —6,453 8x11 " —495 
18x60 " — 5,808 8x12 " —453 
RASPBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, ETC. 
3x5 feet— 2,go4 3x7 feet— 2,074 
3x6 " —2,420 3x8 " —1,815 
BLACKBERKIES. 
Blackberries are decidedly among tlie 
most profitable crops if properly managed. 
The demand for this luscious fruit as a table 
berry is very great and few communities 
are supplied. The repeated forest fires are 
fast destroying the wild berries in the great 
north woods, from which our cities have 
hitherto been supplied and the skilful culti- 
vator can now reap a rich harvest in meet- 
ing this demand. They occupy a season 
when there are no other berries in the mar- 
ket. 
The cause of failure lies more gen- 
erally in the use of suckers take ■ from an 
old patch than from anything else. After 
a plantation has fruited itself to death or 
run out it is mowed off and plowed so as to 
cut the roots, when they will throw up an 
immense number of suckers, which nursery- 
men send out. They only cost the digging 
and that is more than they are worth. 
Suckers do not make many roots near 
the cane, but throw them out a long distance 
and the sap has to come so far from the 
feeding roots to reach the leaves for assimi- 
lation that they are continuously throwing 
up suckers. Occasionally a bush will be 
found fairly well loaded with fine large ber- 
ries, but a great majority bear only a mod- 
erate quantity. The plantation is always 
uneven in fruit and foliage. The exhaus- 
tion of the old plant follows into the new 
setting and robs the grower of his profits. 
The Money comes from having every 
bush loaded with fine large berries of high 
quality and a fruiting power of such strength 
that large crops shall follow each other 
every year. 
Don't you know people always like to 
boost a successful man? If he supplies a 
superior article, he deserves it. Well then, 
go at it right. 
How to do it. Take roots from a young 
ideal plant, perfect in every respect and 
calous during the winter, plant in nursery 
rows, and in the fall take them up and put 
them through a second process. Under- 
stand a calous is the preparation to emit 
roots and always precedes root growth and 
it requires low temperature and considerable 
time to form. Now when set in the spring 
they will at once emit a mass of fibrous 
feeding roots from all sides occupying every 
inch of ground near the plant. The plants 
must all be healthy for if there is any 
weakness in the cuttings they will not grow. 
The plantation will last much longer, fruit 
heavier, stand drouth better, be more hardy 
because it maintains a steady growth 
throughout the summer and ripens iis wood 
thoroughly. This has passed beyond the 
range of mere theory as our enormous crops 
year after year abundantly testify. 
