WILEY & CO., CAYUGA, N. Y. 
New Blackberry— Mersereau* 
(SEE CUT LAST PAGE OF COVER.) 
Named By PROF. BAILEY of Cornell University. 
Sfe Cornell Bulletin. No.gg. Aug., 'gj. 
"A variety resembling Snyder and derived from it. Some four years ago 
the originator noticed an extra large strong bush among his Snyders and be- 
gan to propagate from it. He is now gradually changing his whole plantation 
over to this new variety, it is one of the most prujiusing varieties I know." 
Prof. Bailey. 
No one is more familiar with this berry than our Mr. Wiley, living but two 
miles from where it originated, his attention being called to the parent plant a 
few days after it was discovered. He was also in company with Prof. Bailey 
when he went to examine and natne the variety. 
ITS POINTS OF SUPERIORITY ARE: 
1st. Extreme Hardiness. 
2nd. Larger size and greater productiveness. 
3rd. Less tendency to turn red after being picked. 
(Than Snyder.) 
4th. Delicious Quality. 
5th. Remains in bearing as late as Sept. 1 to 10. 
6th. Selling two and three cents higher per quart than 
any other variety. 
7th. No other variety during the past summer carried and developed its 
crop through the extreme drought as did this variety. 
Price, No. i plants Si. 50 dozen, $8 50 hundred. 
Price, smaller plants $1.10 dozen, $6.50 hundred. Post paid at dozen rates. 
^ ^^^<^ 4^<^ ^ • * CONOVER'S COLOSSAL 
itlSParaQUS*^ and barr's mammoth. 
Price, $J.OO per hundred ; $5.00 per thousand. 
This earliest and finest of Spring vegetables is among the easiest cultivated 
and most profitable. A bed once planted suffers no deterioration for thirty 
years or more, if it is properly attended to and well manured. 
Cultivation. See that the ground is well drained, naturally 
or otherwise, work it up fine and deep and make it very rich with 
well rotted barnyard manure. Locate the plants eight inches 
apart in rows three feet apart. Spread out the roots in a trench 
made deep enough to permit their crowns to be covered with three 
or four inches of' mellow earth. Give the bed liberal dressings of 
manure at intervals, and, except near the sea shore, three pounds 
of salt per square yard early every Spring. Do not cut for use un- 
til the plants have grown two seasons. 
Conover'S Colossal. This variety is much superiorin size 
and quality to any other, being remarkably tender and fine 
flavored. 
Palmetto. Until recently we believed that the Conover's Colossal was 
the best sort known, but we are now forced to concede that the Palmetto is 
earlier and a better yielder, and more even and regular in its growth, and that 
it will eventually supercede the old favorite. The average bunches contain 15 
shoots measuring 13)4 inches in circumference, and weighing nearly two 
pounds. It has been tested both north and south, and has proved entirely 
successful in every instance. 
