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Framingham Nurseries, Framingham, Mass. 
GOOSEBERRIES 
Gooseberries are as easily cultivated as Currants, requiring a similar 
soil and a similar treatment for insect enemies. Plant 3 or 4 feet apart 
and mulch. A sunny situation helps to keep down mildew. 
Downing (.\merican). The standard of excellence. Large, pale green, 
and covered with a white bloom; best in flavor and quality; a strong 
grower, productive and healthy. Valuable for the market. SI. 50 
per 10; $12.00 per 100. 
Houghton (American). Fruit medium size, red, thin-skinned, juicy, 
sweet and good in flavor and quality. Very productive, $1.25 per 
10; .$8.00 per 100. 
Industry (European). Bush a strong grower, and the most productive 
of the European varieties. Fruit large, dark red, mild, subacid, sweet 
and good flavor. One of the best for market, either green or ripe. 
25 cts. each; $2.00 per 10. 
ASPARAGUS 
_ An easily cultivated crop, capable of 
giving large returns, depending as much on 
the culture as on the variety used. Do not 
plant more than 4 to 6 inches deep, and do 
not use salt as a fertilizer. Planting in 
double rows, 18 inches to 2 feet apart in the 
rows, gives sufficient room for paying crops. 
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Asparagus 
Prices: $1.25 per 100, $9.00 per 1000, except where noted. 
Conover's Colossal. Of large size, rapid growth and excellent quality. 
Columbian Mammoth White. Produces numbers of great, thick white 
shoots. Most attractive and profitable for canning. 
Giant Argenteuil. A new French variety that makes crowns strong enough 
for cutting before any other sort and yields enormous crops of mammoth, 
tender stalks. $1.50 per 100, $12.00 per 1000. 
Palmetto. A very popular variety of best quality. 
RHUBARB 
Plant in rows 3 feet apart, the plants 2 feet apart in the rows. Every 4 years the old stools should 
be taken up, divided and replanted in soil which should always be of excellent.quality. 
Linnaeus (Myatt's Linnajus). Large, early, tender, apd of the very best quality. 25 cts. each, $2.00 per 
10. 
Number of Trees or Plants on an Acre at Various Distances 
At 4 feet 
•■ 5 
6 
" 8 
" 10 
" 12 
apart each way 2729 
•• " 1742 
1200 
680 
430 
325 
At 15 feet apart each way . 
•• 18 
" 20 
„ 25 
" 30 
200 
135 
110 
70 
50 
The number of plants required for an acre, at any given distance apart, may be ascertained by 
dividing the number of square feet in an acre (43,560) by the number of square feet given to each plant, 
which is obtained by multiplying the distance between rows by the distance between the plants. Thus, 
strawberries planted three feet by one foot gives each plant three square feet, or 14,520 plants to the acre. 
We do not have agents. Buy direct from the grower and do away with the middleman s 
profit and agent's commission. 
W. B. WHITTIER & COMPANY 
FRAMINGHAM, MASS. 
Long Distance Telephone, Framingham 331 
A. T DE LA MARE PTG. « PUB. CO. LTD.. HORTICULTUBAL PRINTERS. 2 TO 8 DUANC STREET. NEW YORK 
