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GEO. COOLING & SONS’ CATALOGUE OF FRUIT TREES. 
CURRANTS. 
Per dozen, 4/- to 6/- ; per 100, 25/- to 40/-, excepting those priced. 
Cordon and Fan Trained, 1/6 each. 
Baldwin’s Black, a heavy bearing variety, hangs late on the bushes ; a favourite variety with 
market growers. 
Bar-le-Duc. white, a grand new Currant, strong grower and free bearer, fruit large and contains few 
seeds, has Ijeen larg.dy used in France for making a high-class jam which commands a good price. Per 
doz., 6/- and 9/- 
Black Naples, large, very sweet and good, a very excellent variety. 
BOSKOOP GIANT, black, by far the best of all the Black Currants, of extraordinary vigorous growth, 
long bunch and enormous berries, flavour sweet and rich. Per doz., 6/- and 9 /- 
Cherry Currant, very large, deep red and early, 
Comet, one of the best early varieties, large bunches, with grape size berries. Per doz. 6 /- and 9 /- 
Common Black, a well known old variety, very productive. 
DUNNET’S BLACK CHAMPION, bunches very long, with immense berries, hanging longer and later 
than any other variety. 
Fay’s Prolific, large dark red, not so acid as others, abundant bearer and fine for walls. Per doz., 
6/- and 9/- 
Fowler’s Early Market, red, a very free cropping variety, of rich colour. 
Knight’s Large Red, large berries and very long and large bunches, most prolific. 
Lee’s Prolific Black, bunches produced in immense numbers, berries very large, richly flavoured. 
Red Grape, large, deep red, a sweet, rich kind, and a prolific bearer. 
Raby Castle, bunches larger than those of Red Dutch, berries larger and of brighter red ; an 
abundant bearer. 
Wentworth Leviathan, white, very large bunches and berries, a fine variety. 
White Dutch, large, sweet, and very good ; a fine dessert kind. 
RASPBERRIES. 
Fine Canes, 2/- doz., 12/- 100, excepting those priced. 
BAUMFORTH’S SEEDLING, a very heavy cropping, extra large, and highly flavoured variety. 
Beehive, a good standcird variety. 
Fastolf, purplish red, large and excellent. 
HORNET, deep red, very good ; First-class Certificate, R.H.S., 2/6 per doz. ; 16/- per 100. 
NORTHUMBERLAND FILL-BASKET, large, deep red, free bearing. 
NOVEMBER ABUNDANCE, a splendid autumn bearing variety, a seedling from Superlative, large, 
deep red in colour and of excellent flavour, fruiting throughout October and November, 3/- per doz. ; 
20/- per 100. 
Norwich Wonder, fruit large and well flavoured ; robust grower. 
Red Antwerp, large, crimson, fine. 
Rivers’ Double-Bearing, large, crimson, free bearing. 
Steele’s Victoria, said to be the finest variety sent into Covent Garden ; the fruit Is large, hand- 
some, and early, and it is almost continuous in bearing, good gatherings have been made as late as 
November. 
SUPERLATIVE, of large size and frequently produced on young canes, hence it may be con- 
sidered a perpetual bearer ; it succeeds where many tender varieties fail. 
THE DEVON, fruit of large size and an enormous cropper, very juicy and of sweet and refreshing 
flavour, the canes attain a height of 8 to 10 feet in the season, and many trusses have been found to carry 
as many as 60 fruit, strong canes 3/- per doz. ; 20/- per 100. 
THE GUINEA, a new large yellow variety; a seedling from Superlative, having all the good qualities 
of that first-class variety, per doz. 3/- ; per 100, 20 /-. 
White Antwerp, large, pale yellow, mild and sweet. 
We were awarded the Royal Hoiticultural Society’s Knightian Silver Medal and First Prize 
for our collection of Hardy Fruit at the October Exhibition. 
