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Eldorado Blackberry 
Select Varieties of Blackberries 
This profitable fruit should be planted for garden 
use in rows five feet apart, with plants three feet 
apart in rows; for market, in rows six feet apart, 
with plants three feet apart in the rows. Give the 
plants the same cultivation as for raspberries. 
Eldorado— The best all-round berry yet produced, 
combining nearly all the good qualities found in 
a blackberry. The vines are very hardy and 
vigorous, enduring the winters of the far North- 
west without injury, and their yield is enormous. 
The berries are large, jet black, borne in large 
clusters and ripen well together; they are very 
sweet, melting, have no hard core and keep for 
eight or ten days after picking with quality 
unimpaired. 
Snyder — Extremely hardy ; enormously productive ; 
medium size. 
Rathbun — Bush perfectly healthy, vigorous, but not 
a high growing sort; very rarely suckers from 
the roots. Fruit of largest size, highest quality. 
Lawton— Very large, excellent quality, and an abun- 
dant bearer. 
Kittatinny — At one time this was the most popular of 
all Blackberries. It is still first-rate for garden 
use, and in some localities for market Berries 
large ; canes strong in growth ; productive. 
Wilson’s Early — Large size, black, quite firm, rich, 
sweet and good. Ripens early and matures its 
fruit rapidly; retains its color well after picking. 
Minniewaska — Wonderful, hardy, productive, good 
blackberry, has not been forgotten by us, or our 
old patrons. Its principal points are hardiness, 
excellent quality, earliness and continued bearing 
and productiveness. The secret of its great pro- 
ductiveness, is that it is an enormous grower. A 
large grower near Rochester states that his aver- 
age receipts from an acre of Minniewaska black- 
berries has been $300 a year for the past five years. 
Early Harvest — The earliest blackberry and valuable 
for market The canes are strong and upright in 
growth and enormously productive. Bepries sweet 
and of the highest quality. 
Erie — Bush vigorous; berry large, round; good 
quality; early and productive. An excellent 
market sort. 
Agawam — Ripens earlier than other kinds, and has a 
flavor similar and equal to the wild berry. Hardy. 
Ancient Briton — Bush hardy and very productive. 
One of the best old sorts, and still grown in 
immense quantities by successful market gar- 
deners. 
Blower — Large size, jet black, good shipper, best 
quality, unexcelled productiveness are the main 
characteristics of this splendid new sort 
Pomona Price* for all varieties of Blackberry Plants, 10 cts. each, 10 for 50 cts., 100 for $2.50, 1000 for $17.50. 
