22 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 
Fruit 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. 
High^Bush Cranberry 
Bush closely resembles the snowball ; perfectly hardy in northern Minnesota. 
This shrub bears extremely 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. 
Japanese Wine Plant 
This variety belongs to the raspberry family and has, we think, no particular 
value except as an ornamental plant. The canes are a deep red and are covered witli 
fine thorns, which give the canes, flowers and fruit the appearance of Moss rosebuds 
and canes. 
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 varie- 
ties put together. Will stand almost any amount of drought. 
Vegetables 
Asparagus 
Columbian Mammoth White. This vai-iety 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 Plaut; very large, early, tender and fine. 
Suitable Distances for Planting 
Apples 24 by 24 feet 
Pears 18 to 20 
Peaches Ki to 18 
Cherries 15 to 18 
Plums 16 to 20 
Grapes 8 to 10 " 
Hedges 1% to \% " 
Currants 3 to 4 " 
Gooseberries 3 to 
Raspberries, Kcd ... 3 by 
Raspberries, Black . . .'! by 
Blackberries and Dew- 
berries 3 by 
Strawberries, rows . . 1 by 
Asparagus 1 by 
Rhubarb 3 bv 
6 
4 
6 
6 
3% 
3 
feet 
Number of Trees or 
feet each wav 10,790 
" " " 4,8r)0 
" " 2,723 
" 1,742 
" " " 1,210 
" " " . 080 
" " " 430 
To ascertain the number of plants required to the acre at any given distance, 
divide the number of square feet (43,.')(i0) in an acre by the number of square feet 
you desire to devote to each plant. For instance, in strawberries planted V/, by 4 
feet, each hill will occupy 0 square feet, making 7,200 plants to the acre. 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
8 
10 
Plants on an Acre 
12 feet each way 
15 " " " 
18 " " " 
20 " " " 
24 " " " 
32 " " " 
302 
194 
135 
110 
71 
40 
