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are those that started after it was cut back. It certainly is a great wonder 
added to the raspberry family. In offering this raspberry to the public, we 
knew that times have been hard with all, and therefore, thought best, un- 
der the circumstances, to put prices down so that all will feel able to plant 
at least a few and have the finest of all raspberries. Don’t miss it. 
Price: Single plant by mail, 30c; 5 for $1.00. By express: 12 for $2 
100 for $8.00. ’ 
‘‘FIRST AND BEST/' 
The “First and Best” is the earliest raspberry in cultivation. The 
berries are a most beautiful light rosy crimson color. Very large, laro-er 
than Cuthbert and ripens with the earliest strawberries, a monUi before 
any of the standard raspberries; a rampant grower, hardy, with a healthy, 
handsome foliage. Very productive of delicious, fine flavored berries. 
The most unique and strange fact is that this variety produces its fruit 
buds on wood of last season’s growth, thus enabling it to bloom with the 
earliest strawberries and opening the doors to a new race of raspberries. 
Mr. Watkins, the introducer, says: “First and Best raspberry is what 
we ave a been looking for, a good, early American red raspberry that 
would ripen with the earliest strawberries, and we are pleased to announce 
that the P irst and Best’ fills the bill. It is at once apparent that a rasp- 
berry ripening with early strawberries is of the greatest commercial value. 
is a fact that this berry will bloom before any variety of strawberry is in 
bloom, and in some sections we believe it will ripen fruit before any kind of 
st^rawberries are ripe. The fruit is all that can be desired, being a very 
s owy, brilliant red color, of good size and most delicious flavor, a splendid 
Slipper and commands extreme high price in market on account of its earli- 
ness and fine showy appearance. Plant all of this variety you can. 
Price: By mail, 1 plant, 40c; 3 for $1.00; 6 for $1.75; 12 for $3.00; 25 
by express for $8. 
THE SALMONBERRY 
This plant is a strong, vigorous grower, attaining a heigth of 7 to 8 feet 
perfectly healthy and hardy, and in all positions it is in fact the hardiest 
of all the raspberries, standing the winter of the northwest unharmed, even 
in Alaska, where the mercury often sinks to 50 degress below zero. Its 
leaves are fully ten times as large as any other raspberry leaves, very thick 
and hardy and looks somewhat like a large sycamore leaf. The plant 
branches freely and can be trained into a fine little tree 6 to 8 feet high, 
which does not die after fruiting as other raspberries do, but continues to 
bear fruit on the same branches from year to year. The wood has a peth 
like an elder and as free from thorns as a current bush. The flowers are 
indeed very beautiful. 
