SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
Rough Rider. (B) The evidence is that this is the 
most valuable extra late berry under cultivation. It was 
introduced last year but had been grovpn on a large sca'e in 
Oswego county, New York, for New York City and other 
eastern markets. The fact that it conies in after all the 
other sorts are gone makes it very desirable. In its general 
appearance in fruit and foliage it closely resembles the 
Bubach, but is a little darker in color. There is no question 
but that it will be a great success and head the list as an 
extremely late berry. While plants are a little high, yet a 
few lor propagation will be a big paying investment. You 
must have them. 
Ridge way. (B) Season medium early. Originated 
m Indiana where it is largely planted. Here it ranks high 
and I takepleasure in commending it as a vigorous plant with 
fruit of excellent quality and good size. It roots very deep- 
ly and will stand severe droughts and yet bring its berries to 
perfection. 
Ruby. (B) Season medium. It is certainly a ruby of 
the first class. Plants are large and stocky. Berries large, 
cone shape, even in size, a good shipper and one that catches 
the eye on the market. It is really an "up-to-date" berry. 
Star. (B) Season medium early. It is of recent intro- 
duction but it is one of the bright stars of the strawberiy 
firmament. The berries are large and true as a top; bright 
I of excellent quality, and one of the most desirable 
of the new varieties. 
^ Sample. (P) One of the Kings among very late varie- 
faes. Its truit is large and bright, beautiful in form and of 
the highest quality and its foliage so vigorous that it must 
stand as one of the most popular sorts. Few varieties have 
made such a record in so short a time. It was one of our 
pets from the start and knowing the demand would largely 
increase in every neighborhood where it was introduced we 
have propagatjd largely of it and can meet all demands. 
Seaford. (P) Season quite late. Here is another ber- 
ry over which we get very enthusiastic. "Windrows of 
great big beautiful berries on each side of the row," is what 
a visitor said and that was perhaps the best thing which 
could be said of its productivness. The berries are great big 
bright fellows which catch the eye of the "critical buyer" on 
the market. Everj'body speaks in the highest terms of it 
and you will make no mistake in planting it largely. 
Senator Dnnlap. (B) Season early to late. This 
berry was sent here for testing in advance of its introduction 
which occurred last year. The records place it on an equali- 
ty with anything on our trial grounds. Its fruit is a beauti- 
ful glossy red, fine shape and large. Grown in hills or 
hedge row it stools up readily and in the matted row it 
makes a fair number of runners which are easily managed. 
The demand for plants next year will be large as it is sure 
to be very popular. As a market berry it will be a competi- 
tor of Warfield. We urge growers to try it. 
Tennessee Prolific. (B) A very early large beautiful 
productive berry. I am sorry the letter "T" in the alphabet 
brings this berry so far down in the list for it has made such 
a grand showing every year that it should be at the head of 
the list for early berries. It is planted largely in the south 
for shipping north and succeeds here equally well. Its fol- 
iage is vigorous, it roots deep and stands the drouth well. It 
makes runners freely but when grown in hedge row stools 
up in fine shape and should be classed as "enormously pro- 
ductive." 
Up-To-Date. (B) Season medium to late. The fol- 
iage is vigorous and berries very large, dark red to the cen- 
ter, mild flavor and very desirable for eating out of hand. It 
roots deep and withstands drouth better than most sorts ot 
its class. 
Warfield. (P) This is the great earlv market berry 
all over the country and more generally planted than any 
other. When in full vigor its productivness is a marvel. 
While the plants in the propagating bed are never as large 
as some other sorts, yet when grown in hedge or very nar- 
row matted row they stool up to good size and berries are 
very large, dark blood red and a good shipper. One of the 
very best for canning. By all means renew your stock with 
these thoroughbred plants. 
Wolverton. (B) Season medium to very late. It this 
berry had been introduced and distributed properly it would 
be in general cultivation. The foliage is so vigorous and 
healthy: the berries large bright red and quality so far above 
the average that every one who tests it plants more largely 
of it each year. 
Theraspberry fields of the country are generally 
in a deplorable condition.- Not one grower in a 
hundred is harvesting one half the berries he should 
and what he gets are very small and without flavor. 
It has been the universal pratice for 
growers to fruit plantations until run out and then 
propagate from them to start a"new" bed w-hich 
was again fruited four or five years when it did not 
pay for labor and then renewed again in the same 
way. 
Nurserymen have contributed to this dis- 
aster by contracting with these parties who grow on 
a large scale for evaporating, for plants to fill their 
orders and thus their exhausted stock has been 
sent broadcast over the country. 
Pruning has often been neglected and 
these plantations .soon become pollen exhausted and 
while the canes are large they produce very little 
fine fruit. The weakened cane.'-' easily succumb to 
fungi and other disea.ses and after four or five light 
crops are run out instead of fruiting heavily eight or 
ten j'ears as they should do. 
The true way is to breed up by propagating 
from ideal canes carefully selected and pruned. 
This is done with us every year so that this rapid 
selection weeds out all weak canes and leaves only 
those which are perfect and in full vigor. 
The photograph on the back .shows one of 
our fields the second year after planting. The 
camera was placed too low to show the rows on 
right or left which are set seven feet apart, but ex- 
hibits the wonderful vigor of plants propagated 
imder our .system. This is the field which has pro- 
duced the plants for this year's sales. 
It is the big crop every year that pays and 
to get this you must have vigorous plants. 
Growers should propagate their own'plants 
as far as possible but bear in miiid it is a great error 
to think you can grow fruitful plants from old run 
out .scrub stock. 
You can order a few of these magnificent Pedi- 
gree plants this spring and bury the tips and thus 
get a start of thoroughbred plants for a large plan- 
tation na.xt year. If your ground is ready you can- 
not afford to wait for propagating as the extra 
berries on one crop would more than pay for plants 
and you would be one year ahead. 
Set in rows seven feet apart and three 
feet apart in the row. Having fitted tlie ground 
as for strawberries plow a furrow about four inches 
deep and set plants flat in bottom of the furrow 
with roots spread in all directions taking great care 
not to break off the buds and firm tlie soil as solid 
as possible with the feet all around the plant and 
fill in the furrow with loose earth to act as a mulch. 
Cultivation should be frequent until the last berry 
is picked when the old canes should be cut out and 
burned at once to destroy any fugi or insects which 
may have found a lodgment in tliem 
It is the greatest blunder to stop cultiva- 
tion and allow berries to dry up and canes to stop 
growing in mid-summer, and then make a late 
growth in the fall which will be sure to winter 
kill. 
One of the neatest ways of growing rasp- 
berries and blackberries is to string a wire about 
four feet high with a stake everv forty feet, and 
tie the canes to this. The expense is not great, 
and it pr .-vents the wind from threshing the berries 
off and gives clear space for cultivating. In this 
ca.se I would not pinch them back, but let them 
grow in their natural way, and at winter pruning 
cut off the upper third, and this will leave enough 
buds to produce all the berries the bush can mature 
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