shall discard all others and set this exclus- 
ively for the early red. 40c per doz., $2.50 
per 100 and $15.00 per 1,000. 
Thoinpsoa's Karly. Ripens before 
strawberries are gone. The berries are 
smaller than the Miller and not more pro- 
ductive. The canes are vigorous and hardy. 
30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 and $7.00 per 1,000. 
The Miu-lboro. This follows the Miller 
and IS popular. The berries are firm and 
good shippers. 30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 
and S7.00 per 1,000. 
Criiiisuii Beauty. A large, vigorous; 
early berry and one of the most productive 
red berries grown. It seems nearly a pistil- 
late and must be set with every fourth row or 
in blocks of say six rows of Miller, Thompson 
or Marlboro. Its enormous productiveness 
compensates fully for this extra work. The 
berries are firm, early and bright red color. 
30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 and $7.00 per 1,000. 
Miller s Red. 
The C'llthhert. This has long been the 
standard of red berries. The fruit is large 
and firm so that it stands up well and can 
be shipped any distance. Its season is the 
latest. 30c per doz., $1.25 per 100 and S7.00 
per 1,000. 
The Ooldeii Queen. A seedling or 
sport of the Cuthbert and very closely 
resembles it except the berries are yellow. 
It is perhaps the best yellow berry. Very 
fine for canning and near market. After 
berries have been picked a few hours they 
The Cdthbukt 
look dull, hence not good for distant market. 
30c per doz., $1.50 per 100 and S8.00 per 1,000. 
The Loudou. It is rated higher than 
any late red berry yet introduced. It will 
soon take the place of Cuthbert. It is finer 
in quality, larger and better in every way. 
Growers will do well to procure a few plants 
and propagate it if they expect to control 
the market. It is the coming late berry sure. 
15c each, $2.00 per doz. and $10.00 per 100. 
A REVOLUTION IN BLACK- 
BERKY GROWING. 
Nothing sells better, nothing pays better, 
nothing is grown more easily. The new 
method of starting the plantation produces 
double that of the old way. Its fruit is more 
luscious and a plantation will fruit heavily 
under good culture and pruning from fifteen 
to twenty years, giving annually large crops. 
Tlie cleniaiul for this fruit is practically 
unlimited. The trouble is blackberries as 
offered are sour, seedy and lack flavor. 
Scarcely a town in the country is supplied 
at all with large luscious blackberries. 
Under the new .system of establish- 
ing the patch every cane is loaded with 
large, luscious berries of the most delicious 
flavor and gives a big crop every year 
because the ground is filled with a dense 
mass of roots making root pasturage of 
every square inch of the soil for several 
feet around the plant, furnishing it an 
abundance of food to sustain it in bringing 
its great load of fruit to full maturity without 
exhausting the plant. 
How it is done. Pursue the same 
method explained in breeding up straw- 
berries. Find all the ideal canes bearing 
the finest fruit, and not over two years old: 
Early in the fall dig them up and cut roots 
in pieces about three inches long and pack 
in boxes of clean, coarse, sharp sand and 
place in a cold cellar regulated with ice so 
the thermometer will stand at 35 degrees. 
An ordinary cellar will not do, for if 
allowed to get too warm the cuttings will 
commence to grow and all be spoiled. If 
allowed to freeze they will not callous and 
thus fail to enlit sufficient roots. 
What is a c^allus? It is a law of 
nature that when a root is cut or injured the 
plant will repair the damage by sending out 
new roots but no new root will start until a 
callus is formed. Certain wood cells and a 
gristle like substance must form, and out of 
this callus the roots start. The process 
requires time and goes on at a low tempera- 
ture and the longer the root is kept in this 
dormant condition the more calluses there 
will be. 
Roots prepared in October form calluses 
in great numbers beforeplanting time the fol- 
lowing May. When the cuttings are placed in 
nursery rows in rich moist sandy soil about 
three inches apart and one and a half deep. 
It is quite difficult to make them grow prop- 
erly without irrigation. If the plants get dry 
they will fail. If buried too deep they damp 
off and die. Low spring or cold ground will 
not do. They must have frequent cultivation 
and not a weed allowed to grow among them. 
As soon as dormant in the fall, the plants 
are carefully taken up and roots trimmed to 
the proper length and again packed in coarse 
