THE RUSHIRE FRUIT FARM, IONIA, MICH. 
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rich, deep soil, and given the highest culture 
they make wondrous big hills and produce 
enormous crops of very large berries, of deep 
glossy scarlet color, that make a most attract- 
ive appearance on the table or in the market; 
is of little value on light, sandy soil. 
Parker Earle (B.) 
is making a magnificent record and will take 
high rank as a market berry. Good reports 
•come from every quarter and plants are likely 
to be very scarce for a long time to come. It 
is bi-sexual, plants dark green, fruit very large, 
fine flavor and of beautiful color. 
BUBAOH (P.) 
now ranks as a standard variety. Not quite so 
productive as the Haverland. The berries are 
very large and are classed with " show berries." 
They are very beautiful. 
The Enhange (B.) 
is a perfect flowering sort of the greatest prom- 
ise. The fruit is dark red and fine fiavor, from 
large to very large. It seems to have great 
power to resist frost. The fact that it is very 
strong in pollen will make it valuable as a fer- 
tilizer for pistillate sorts. 
Gandy (B.) 
is a prize indeed. It is surely the beet very 
late variety. We picked fine large berries as 
late as July 18. It has a perfect flower, blooms 
very^late and enables one to hold the market 
when all other varieties have begun to run 
small. 
The Jessie (B.) 
is perfect flowering and better than the Sharp- 
less. It resembles that variety somewhat, is 
very vigorous and healthy and worthy of gen- 
eral planting. 
Warpield (P.) 
is the coming berry for market. It is certainly 
as productive and of better quality and larger 
than the Crescent and will more than likely 
supersede that old favorite inasmuch as it 
"stands up" in the boxes better and is the 
best canning berry if we except the Pearl. 
Nothing but highest praise comes from all parts 
of the country. 
Mitchbl's Early (B.) 
is being planted largely on account of extreme 
earliness, as it is certainly eight or ten days 
ahead of Crescent and Wilson. It is very 
strong in pollen and hence valuable as a fer- 
tilizer. It is very vigorous and makes more 
runners than any other variety I know of and 
must not be allowed to mat too thick or you 
get no fruit. I do not believe it is as product- 
ive as many others but has the market and big 
prices as it is ahead of all others in earliness. 
The Dayton (B.) 
We are glad of the opportunity to assist in 
the introduction of tliis grand new berry, now 
first oft'ered to the public. Yet it is not a new, 
untried variety, but has had several years of 
thorough trial, and a verdict has been rendered 
by several leading horticulturists as well as by 
