Net V Hybrid Fruits 
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REID'S NURSERIES, UPLAND, OHIO 
JAPANESE GOLDEN MAYBERRY 
A Raspberry which ripens its fruit before strawberries. This is a decided and valuable novelty, originated 
by the celebrated Luther Burbank, of California. We give the description of this wonderful berry as follows : 
" Earliest Raspberry ever known. The berries are of a golden 
straw color, as large as Cuthbert, and ripen here in April, a month 
before Hensell, before strawberries, and before the earliest of the 
standard Raspberries of the past have hardly awakened from their 
winter rest. The bushes are distinct from all others, growing like 
trees, 6 to 8 feet high, with spreading tops, and all along the 
branches large white, bell-shaped blossoms are pendent. These 
are soon followed by great, sweet, glossy, golden, semi-translucent 
berries. The plants, when well established, will surprise one with 
their abundance of fruit. 
“ The history of this variety is as follows : Some ten years ago 
I reguested my collector in Japan to hunt up the best wild Rasp- 
berries, blackberries and strawberries that could be found. Several 
curious specimens were received the next season, among them a red 
and also a dingy yellow, unproductive variety of Jtnbus palmatus. 
One of these plants, though bearing only a few of the most worth- 
less, tasteless, dingy yellow berries I have ever seen, was selected, 
solely on account of its unusual earliness, to cross with Cuthbert and 
other well-known Raspberries. Among the seedlings raised from 
the plant was this Japanese Golden Mayberry, and though no signs 
of the Cuthbert appears in bush or fruit, yet it can hardly be doubted 
that Cuthbert pollen has effected some of the wonderful improve- 
ments to be seen in this new variety.” It will pay berry-growers 
to plant the Japanese Golden Mayberry. 50 cts. per doz., $3 
per 100. 
STRAWBERRY = 
RASPBERRY 
One of the remarkable recent 
introductions from Japan. A beau- 
tiful dwarf Raspberry, seem- 
ing from its characteristics 
to be a hybrid between the 
Raspberry and Strawberry. 
Bush dies to the ground in the 
fall; makes a handsome, low- 
spreading plant, with dark 
green foliage. Fruit is early, 
stands well outfrom the foliage, 
size and shape of a strawberry ; 
color brilliant crimson ; flavor 
unique. 10c. each, 25c. per doz., 
Japanese Golden Mayberry (Burbank's). $1 per too, §7.50 per 1,000. 
JAPANESE WINEBERRY 
There have been few novelties introduced to this country that are more Strawberry-Raspberry, 
interesting or beautiful in their way than the Japanese Raspberry, brought 
out recently under the name of VVineberry. It 
originated front seed sent home by Prof. George- 
son, late of the Imperial College of Agriculture, 
Tokio, Japan, and gathered by him from a plant 
growing in a wild state on the mountains of 
that country. The canes of this interesting 
plant are large, robust and entirely hardy 
here ; they are thickly covered with purplish 
red hairs, which extend along the stem to 
the extremity. The leaves are 
large, tough, dark green above 
and silvery gray beneath. Each 
berry is at first tightly envel- 
oped by the large calyx, form- 
ing a sort of bur, which is also 
covered with purplish red 
hairs. These gradually open 
and turn back, exposing the 
fruit in all its beauty. In 
quality good, with a rich and 
sprightly flavor, but decidedly 
brisk subacid. When cooked 
it is simply grand, surpasssing 
by far, when canned, the 
huckleberry and all other 
small fruits now in cultiva- 
tion. Season of ripening early 
in July. 50 cts. per doz., $1 
per 100. 
I 
The Japanese Winebeny, 
