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Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa 
Miscellaneous Fruits 
Dewberry, Lucretia 
Fruit much resembles the blackberry, 
but very much larger; an enormous bearer. 
Plant runs on the ground and needs same 
winter protection as blackberry. 
Dwarf Juneberry 
l''ruit hard to distinguish from blueberry 
or huckleberry. The shrub grows about 
four feet high, and bears annually an 
abundant crop of fruit, which ripens in 
June. 
Elderberry 
.\ bush hardy nearly everywhere in the 
Northwest; fruit desirable for culinary 
purposes, as well as a good wine maker. 
High-Bush Cranberry 
Bush closely resembles the snowball; 
perfectly hardy in northern Minnesota. 
This shrub bears e.xtremely well; color of 
fruit bright scarlet; hangs in clusters; 
ripens in fall and will hang on all winter. 
It makes a very fine jelly of beautiful 
color. The plant is highly esteemed both 
for fruit and ornamental purposes. 
Loganberry 
This berry is unlike any other in exist- 
ence, being a hybrid between the rasp- 
berry and the blackberry. The fruit is 
sometimes an inch and one-quarter long, 
dark red, as large as the largest black- 
berry, and produced in immense clusters. 
It partakes of the flavor of both the black- 
berry and raspberry, a mild, pleasant, 
vinous flavor, delicious and [)eculiar to 
this berry alone; seeds small, soft and few; 
fruit ripens early, just after strawberries, 
and before blackberries or raspberries. 
The vine or cane of the Loganberry grows 
entirely unlike either the blackberry or 
raspberry. It trails or grows upon the 
ground more like a Dewberry. It is 
excellent for the table, eaten raw or stewed, 
and for jelly or jam it is without an equal. 
Ripe in May. This fruit originated on the 
Pacific slope and is of value only in the 
Rocky Mountain regions or in a mild 
climate. 
Russian Mulberry 
A very rapid-growing plant; bears well; 
fruit sweet, variable in size and color; 
leaf dark green and of very different 
shapes; some are birch-shaped, others cut 
and notched as much as any of our oaks, 
and in as many different shapes as all the 
varieties put together. Will stand almost 
any amount of drought. 
Strawberry-Raspberry 
One of the remarkable recent intro- 
ductions from Japan. A beautiful dwarf 
Raspberry, seeming to be a hybrid between 
the raspberry and strawberry. Fruit is 
early, stands well out from the foliage, size 
and shape of a strawberry; color, brilliant 
crimson. Most highly esteemed for its 
hardiness. The fruit is used principally 
in jams and jellies flavored with other 
fruits. 
Senator Dunlap Strawberry 
A well-tested, wonderfully productive 
variety, one of the sate sorts to plant 
everywhere and sure to take a high place 
among the prominent standard sorts. 
Plant resembles Warfield; rampant runner, 
should be restricted in its production of 
plants; fully equal to Crescent and War- 
field in its ability to succeed under all 
circumstances. Fruit good size, regular 
form, beautiful bright red, glossy, firm; 
splendid keeper and shipper, excellent 
quality, one of the best for canning. 
Ripens early and continues a long time. 
It promises to stand at the head in its 
wonderful ability to ripen a good crop 
under almost any condition of drought or 
neglect. 
This variety bears both pistils and sta- 
mens and therefore needs no fertilizer. 
Vegetables 
Asparagus 
Columbian Mammoth White. This variety produces very large white shoots and is 
more valuable for canning than any other. It is a very rapid-growing plant. 
Conover's Colossal. Shoots deep green and often over an inch in diameter are 
thrown up very rapidly from this variety. One of the best. 
Rhubarb, Linnaeus 
The very finest variety of Pie Plant; very large, early, tender and fine. 
