Black Diamond. 
SELECT RASPBERRIES. 
Set 3 ft. apart in rowj have rows 7 ft apart. 
Black Diamond. Black. Time of ripen- 
ing here, first half of July. The Black Dia- 
mond has shown itself to be the most profitable 
black Raspberrii in the world. It is sweeter 
than anything el.se on the market, more pulpy, 
and contains fewer seeds ; at the same time is 
firm and an A No. 1 shipper. It is a grand berry 
for drying, the dried berries being a jvt black, 
and containing all the richness, fine flavor and 
sweetness of the fresh fiaiit. 
Both the fresh and dried fruit command a 
high price on tlie market. We are offered 2 
cents ijer jKiund more for our Black Diamond 
dried fruit than is being paid for choice fruit 
of other varieties. As our mature plants have 
yielded over 5,000 quarts per acre, this differ- 
ence alone means $:?3 per acre. 
For health and vigor of plant, it cannot be 
surpassed. We have not seen one single stalk 
of Black Diamond affected with anthracnose. 
We never have to spray the Black Diamond, 
while other varieties, side by side with it, lose 
from an eighth to a quarter of their growing 
wood by fungus. One of the secrets of its 
great success is its ability to withstand the at- 
tacks of fungus. 
We have a jiatch of Black Diamond on our 
place covering 1 1-10 acres of land, planted in 
the spring of 181)5. This land has received no 
manure or other fertilization for 10 years. In 
1896 the yield from this patch was over 1,500 
quarts per acre ; in 1897 the yield was 5,040 
quarts for the piece, or over 5,000 quarts per 
acre. We estimate that 1,000 quarts per acre 
were lost by the very wet weather and heavy 
rains which we had when the berries were ri- 
jjening. The riin sp'iasnea the! mud on <;he 
berries, and in many cases buried the lower 
branches in the ground. Most of the fruit 
from the lower branches was lost in this way, 
but still we gathered over 5,000 quarts per 
acre. 
The tremendous yield, and the ea.se of pick- 
ing the berries, made it possible to get our 
picking done for 1§ cents per quart, where 
others were paying 2 cents \>ar quart. 
A yield of 1,000 quarts of the Ohio per acre 
the first sea.son is large, and 3,000 quarts for 
the second season is about the average, while 
we have a patch of Black Diamond ])lanted in 
the spring of 1890, containing six acres, from 
which we picked 9,000 quarts this year (1897). 
From The Rural New Yorker, of February 
19, 1898 : 
* * Black Diamond Ra.spberry was received 
durliiK the siirius; of We fiud this black- 
cap amouK the iiiosfc productive varieties ever 
tried at the Rural grounds. The berries are 
as large as those of the Gregg, the druplets be- 
ing twice as those of the (Jumlierland. The 
quality is very good- It is among the earliest, 
and wonderfully productive, the one objection 
being that the berries have too much bloom, * • 
[The stems, on the end of which the berries 
grow, projei^t from the druplets. The super- 
iority of a variety having largo druplets is at 
once apparent.] 
From the New York Experiment Station. 
Geneva, N. Y., August 23, 1897: 
The black Diamond gave us its first fruit this 
season. It promises to be a valuable actiuisi- 
tion to our list of black Raspberries. Our notes 
on this variety are as follows: Fruit large size, 
good color and quality, firm and productive ; 
plants strong and vigorous, worthy of '-irther 
testing. We have not flguied up the yi ild of 
the different varieties so w» are unable 1,1 give 
vou the comparative productivencts.^ of the 
Sla^k Diamond. Very truly, W. PaddcoK. 
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