SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
stout and holds its great load of berries well up from the 
f^round. One of the strongest pollenizers for pistiUates of 
its season. 
Wm. Belt. (B) Season quite early to very late. Ber- 
ries very large, bright crimson and one of the most produc- 
tive of the extra large sorts. This year it became more 
popular than ever and will be generally planted. 
Belle. (B) Season late. This is one of the large, long 
berries. It should be picked with stem on and served b^ 
dipping point in sugar and eaten out of hand. Flavor is 
delicious and a good shipper. Plant it for the fancy trade. 
Brunette. (B) Season medium early to quite late. 
Berries large, cone shape, dark red to center, very productive 
and of the very highest quality. It will rank No. i as a des- 
sert berry and is in all respects very desirable, especially as 
a home berry where quality is appreciated. 
Bismark. (B) Season medium late. A seedling of 
Bubach, which it resembles and is one of the most productive, 
large, perfect flowering berries ever introduced. Colors all 
over at once, very bright red and delicious. It is a good 
shipper. 
Clyde, B Season medium. It has been many years 
since a berry has been introduced which created such a 
furore among growers as this. Its strong points may be 
enumerated as follows: Enormously productive, berries 
large, cone shaped, as pretty as a top, bnght crimson to the 
center, aud seems to succeed on all soils. By all means give 
this berry a trial. 
Cobden Queen. (P) Season quite early to late. Ber- 
ries large, cone shaped and very beautiful, bright red and. 
one of the best shippers, always selling at highest price. 
Its foliage is very rank and it makes itself at home on any 
soil, A grand market berry. 
Cumberland. (B) Season medium early. Berries as 
true as a top, light crimson and very lirge. One of the most 
beautiful berries, and a great seller for near market. Mild, 
rich flavor. Many persons cannot eat a sour berry and will 
enjoy this. 
Cyclone. (B) Season very early. One of the best 
pollenizers for early pistillates. A good shipper, of good 
size, high quality, bright red, long heart shape. It is one of 
the most popular varieties. Its foliage is very vigorous and 
never rusts. Succeeds on light or heavy laud. Does best in 
hedge row. 
Carrie. (P) Season medium early. A daughter of the 
Haverland and very closely resembles it. It is large, bright 
red color and very firm. It is conceded to be one of the 
most productive berries ever put on the market. While it 
was only recently introduced yet evidence is abundant that 
it succeeds generally and will be largely planted. 
Crescent. (P) Season early. This berrj; has made 
more money for growers than any other ever introduced. 
When properly grown, above medium size, bright red, good 
quality and a good shi^jper. Many growers have fruited it 
to impotency,and laid it aside because it would not attain 
.size. I hsve maintained its vigor, so that it often grows as 
large as Sharpless. It makes runners freely, and must be 
grown in hedge or half matted row for "big berries and lots 
of them." 
Drouth King. (P) Seasonearly. It is of the Crescent 
type in habit of growth and roots very deeply. Succeeds on 
light sand and thrives well in spite of a protracted drouth. 
It is "King of the Dry Lands," a fine shipper, very produc- 
tive. Berries when grown in hedge or narrow row are good 
size and fine quality. 
Enormous. (P) Season late. It is enormous in size 
oi berry, productiveness and gfeneral vi^orof plant. It is a 
money maker and should be included in all lists of plants. 
Its berries are so large, bright and beautiful that itcaptivates 
all who see it. Few varieties have made more friends during 
the year. 
Excelsior. (B) Season extra early. This variety 
sustained its reputation this year and is now generally rec- 
ognized as the very best extra early berry. No other extra 
sort on our grounds equRled it in earliness, quantity and 
quality of fruit. It is a good shipper and will be popular at 
the south for sending to northern markets. It should be 
kept in hedge row as it stools up readily when runners are 
cut. 
Emperor. (B) Season medium early to very late. 
This aud the Empress are new berries here, but they have 
attracted so much attention we offer them for trial. The 
plant itself is very large and one of the most productive with 
very large berries, bright red often flattened but beautiful 
ana requires only a few to fill a box. 
Empress. (B) Season the same as Emperor and 
has many of its characteristics except the berries are darker 
in color. It is a luxuriant grower, and produces large well 
shaped berries of high quality. Both originated in Canada 
where they are leaders for extra large berries. We urge 
growers to test them. 
The Earliest. (B) Ripens with Michels Early and 
is a good berry if grown in the hedge row and especially val- 
uable on light land. Berries are medium size and good 
tbipper. 
Greenville. (P) Season quite late. Now in general 
cultivation and a great favorite. Its a rival of Bubach, but 
succeeds better than that on sandy soil. Berries very large, 
bright crimson and very productive, a splendid berry for 
near market. 
Gandy. (B) One of the most popular extra late sorts. 
The berries are large, cone shaped and as even as a top, and 
perhaps as largely planted as any late variety. It is very pro- 
ductive considering it ripens its berries nearly all at once and 
after most other varieties are running small, so the grower 
is still able to supply his customers with fine large berries. 
Gladstone. (B) Here is a new berry from which we 
have made but one selection as it was introduced only two 
years ago. It is pronounced by all testers as a great acquisi- 
tion and we shall plant largely of it. The berry is large 
bright in color and beauiiful; it is so vigorous in growth that 
it is surely destined to become a general favorite. 
Glenn Mary. (B) Season medium early to quite late. 
Berries bright red to center, large and fine. It is a great 
favorite with all who have fruited it and is being largely 
called for this spring. For a fancy berry in a fancy market 
it surely fills the bill. 
Johnsons Early. (B) Season very early. It is the 
great market berry along the Atlantic coast for New York 
and other northern markets. Many dealers in New York 
City advertise it as a specialty and it sells at an extra price. 
If you are shipping berries you will not make a mistake by 
setting it largely. It does best in hedge row. No-where has 
it been affected with rust. 
Haverland. (P) Season medium early. This berry, 
when w€;ll propagated, holds its place as the most produc- 
tive berry grown. When planted m hills or hedge the ber- 
ries lay in windrows on each side of the row. While it is not 
classed as a firm berry, yet it has a tough skin and handles 
well for a near market. Its stems are not strong enough to 
hold the immense loads of berries up from the ground and 
must be mulched to protect them. Berries large and uniform, 
bright crimson. 
Kansas. (P) Season late. This was introduced last 
year at five dollars per dozen. It originated in Kansas and 
was sent here for trial four years ago and was at once class- 
ed as one of the most promising on our trial grounds. 
Grown in hiJls or hedge row the berries lay in piles around 
the plant and are very large, bright red and luscious. The 
plant is so vigorous that it brings everj' berry to perfection. 
Several hills yielded over four quarts each. I am very en- 
thusiastic over it and commend it to growers as a variety of 
the greatest merit. Get a few of these for your propagating 
bed from which to grow plants for next season. 
I/Ovett. (B) Medium early to quite late. Good size 
and very dark color. It stands high as\a pollenizer for pistil- 
lates of its season and is very popular over a wide area of the 
country, 
IVewis Gauthier. (B) Season quite early to late. It 
was imported from France four years ago. Its value lies in 
the fact that it produces a fairly good crop at the regular 
season and the new runners perfect their buds early and 
bloom in August and fruit during September aad October. 
To secure this result as soon as the berries are through f i uit- 
ing the runners should all be cut away narrowing the row 
up so it will have a chance to throw out new runners again 
in the spring and early summer. When the ruuneis have 
set one or two plants the balance should be cut off so as to 
secure early development of buds. Plants must not be al- 
lowed to mat thickly. Keep them at least eight inches 
apart. 
Mazlmus. (B) A berry of the greatest promise. In 
habit of growth it makes few runners and stools up to mam- 
moth proportions. The berries are conical in form, of the 
largest size, deep glossy scarlet, rank high as a table bet ry 
and should be included in the order for a propagating beo, 
as the plants will be in great demand as soon as its merits 
are kuown. 
Marshall. (B) Season late. King of big berries. I 
have greatly improved vigor of foliage and increased size of 
fruit by my method of propagation and now believe it has 
no equal as an extremely large berry. Berries deep Mood 
red to center, flavor very much like the wild berry. Foliage 
large and vigorous. While it will not perhaps yield as 
many quarts to the acre as some medium sized berries yet 
it is the best extra large berry. It makes comparatively 
few runners and should be grown in hedge row or hills to 
get largest berries 
Michel's Early. (B) It has long been known asthe 
extra early berry. When first introduced it created a great 
furore in the south as the extra early berry for shipping 
north and is now generally cultivated throuhout the country. 
In many places through bad breeding it has become quite 
unproductive, but where its vigor has been maintained and 
grown in hedge or very narrow rows it is one of the most 
profitable berries grown as the early berry catches the big 
prices. 
Mexican Everbearing:. (B) It may be doubted if 
any of the so called everbearing sorts are profitable for 
market except near large cities where very fancy prices can 
be had, usually a dollar per quart. It is. however, a great 
treat to have berries in August and September. The season 
governs largely the seconderop. We urge the setting of a 
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