DESORIPTIVE PRICED CATALOOUE 
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ADDITIONAL VARIETIES. 
^^HXIlllbCr'' ^The Prize Cur rant^t 
First Premium at New York State Fair, 1897. 
Prir.e, strong i year plants, by mail, $2. 50 per dozen. 
2 year, $3.00 doz. ; $7.00 hundred, by express. 
Benton Gebhart, the oldest and largest fruit grower on the eastern shore of 
Lake Michigan, proprietor of the celebrated " Fairview Fruit Farm." at Hart, 
Oceana County, Michigan, who makes a speciality of growing currants, ex- 
presses his views as follows : 
Haht, Mich., Jiilv 31, 1895. 
My dear Si'/-;— I am more pleased with the Wilder than ever. In tbe "first place, it 
is oue of the very strongest growers when plants are one and two years old. Soon 
makes a strong and very fine bush. Is also a good grower in wood, after bearing 
heavy crops. In point of fruiting qualities is certainly one of the best, without any 
exception. 
RED CROSS CURRANT. 
The new Red Cross Currant, the life work of Jacob Moore, by 
scientific crossing, has fruited here for the first time this season. It has sur- 
prised us with its large size, productiveness, fine quality and vigor. 
Prof. Maynard, of Amherst College (Hatch Experiment Station, Mass.), 
says Red Cross Currant as seen at Rochester, averages larger than Fay's Pro- 
lific, and is more vigorous. Jacob Moore, the originator, says it is twice as 
large as Victoria, will yield twice as much as Cherry, and is of better quahty 
than any of the older varieties. 
P. C. Rkynolus, the veteran horticulturist of Rochester, N. Y., says that 
the Red Cross Currant avera.ges larger than Fay's or Cherry, and is sweeter 
than most other varieties. He savs that the clusters are longer, and that the 
size of the berries huld out larger to the end of cluster than Fay. 
The price is 2 year old. No. i,25c. each, $2.50 per doz., i year. No. i, 20c. 
each, $2.00 per doz. 
The Comet Red Currant/' 
Award of Merit, 28th July, 1896, by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
The Comet is a novelty in Red Currants, far ahead in all respects to 
all others in the market, and was granted an award of merit by the unanimous 
vote of the Fruit Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society of England, 
and a proof as to the great superiority of this new Red Currant, 'is the fact that 
the Award of Merit was confirmed by the Committee on the fruit being sub- 
mitted again later. 
DESCRIPTION. 
The bunches are almost approaching Grapes in size, being frequently eight 
inches in length, with from 20 to 26 berries of enormous size", and of the most 
brilliant crimson color. It is likely to become a valuable fruit for dessert pur- 
poses, for the juice is particularly refreshing and soft to the palate — it being 
without acidity. The growth is abnormally vigorous. It will hang a long 
time in good condition. The first picking has been made as soon a; the loth 
of June, and the last as late as the 22d of August, durmg three seasons, from 
the same bushes. 
Our stock of plants just received from Wm. Fell & Co., of 
Hexham, England, price, $1.00 each. 
The Mersereau Blackberry is without a rival* 
