20 Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa 
HILBORN RASPBERRY. 
RASPBERRI 
Golden Queen. Large; beautiful amber 
color; firm and of fine quality; plant 
vigorous and remarkably productive. 
Gregg. One of the most valuable va- 
rieties of the blackcap family; fruit very 
much larger than the Mammoth Cluster, 
but not quite so good in quality; ripens 
some days later ; liardy. A vigorous 
grower and great yielder. 
Hilbom. A strong, vigorous plant; 
growing taller than the Older. Berry 
large, black and of fine quality. This 
variety has done best of all on our 
grounds. Its blossoms mature late and 
are seldom caught by the frost. 
Kansas (Blackcap). A valuable early 
variety; very large, handsome, firm, and 
of excellent quality ; very hardy and 
productive. One of the best blackcaps. 
Loudon. This variety originated at 
Janesville, Wisconsin, and is usually 
considered the best of all red Raspberries 
for the extreme North. It is reported 
perfectly hardy at St. Paul. Fruit large. 
ES, continued 
good color, and of fine quality. Very 
productive. 
Older. A new blackcap of large size, 
which originated in Buchanan county, 
Iowa. Thought by some who know it 
best to be the best of the black varieties. 
Pitt's Seedling. A variety which origi- 
nated in northern Iowa. One of the 
very hardiest of plants. Fruit very 
nearly if not quite as large as the Gregg, 
and of much finerquality ; very productive 
and a rank-growing plant. 
Shaffer's Colossal. This variety re- 
sembles the Columbian in fruit and is 
one that has been highly esteemed, but 
of late years the canes have been so in- 
rested with fungus and insect pests that 
the variety has been practically dis- 
carded. "The Columbian is practically 
the same in fruit, and better in every 
other way. 
Turner. One of the sweetest of berries ; 
bright crimson in color, and perfectly 
liardy. A good bearer. 
Blackberries 
We grow our Blackberry plants from root-cuttings, and in this way get plants 
■with plenty of fibrous roots, wliieh make sure the growing of t e plant. In fruiting 
patches of Blackberries there will spi'ing up many plants from the root, and these are 
the plants that are usually dug up and sent out to the trade. They have but few, if 
any, fibrous roots, and are much more apt to die when planted, and will not make 
the growth after planting that the plants will when grown from root-cuttings. 
Ancient Briton. This has been much planted for many years in Wisconsin, and 
has jjroved one of the most profitable fruits for market growing. Plant hardy and 
very productive; fruit large and sweet. 
Snyder. One of the hardiest and best known sorts grown in the West. Fruit 
large and of good quality when fully ripe; very vigorous and productive. Kipens but 
little later than Early Harvest. 
