SEEDS, FBUIT J, YD VTY’ES. 
M. M. Ldern, Shenandoah Co., Va.: 1 can say the above statements are 
true, as I saw ripe and green fruit at the same time. I can truthfully say 
it is certainly ahead of anything I ever saw in the raspberry line. 
Hissy & Slombome, Va.: We have frequently seen the new berry, and 
think they certainly all the originator claims for them, and can recommend 
it to all lovers of the raspberry. Our plants of Perpetual King Raspberry 
are the first we ever sent out; they are the best rooted tip plant, and they 
will not fail to grow if they have half a chance. 
Mr. Keller, Originator of the Perpetual King Raspberry: I discovered this 
variety growing among a bunch of wild black caps. The new seedling was 
nearly three times as large as the others surrounding it. It was discovered 
in September with quite a good crop of fruit on its branches. I thought it 
to be valuable. I transplanted them in the spring following and began to 
propagate them. My new berry is a perpetual bearer; it bears two crops in 
a season. The plant is one of the most vigorous growers I ever saw; in fact 
leads all others. It bears most profusely, in clusters, all perfect; sometimes 
one hundred berries in a clump. The berry is as large as the largest in 
cultivation; will yield twice as much fruit as Gregg; of the finest quality. 
The foliage and growth is all that could be desired. It is the stockiest 
plant of all raspberries, the canes measuring over four inches in dircumfer- 
ence. I Will Pay $5.00 to any one producing a larger cane of any other 
variety of raspberry as to growth. They should not be placed as close as 
other varieties, for they require more space, are more growthy than other 
kinds. It far excels the Gault raspberry. It is larger, more productive and 
ripens ten days earlier than the Gault; the fruit is more firm. Several fmit 
fruit men saw my new bed of one-year-olds from tips, and they say they 
will make three quarts to the hill. Two-year plants from tips yielded twice 
as much as Gregg and one-third more than Gault. The fall crop bears in 
larger clusters than the spring crop. The plant is very hardy and has 
never been attached by the borer. The above cut shows exact size of canes 
and arms for fruit when cut or finished when only twelve inches high. 
We. the introducers of this new fine berry called Perpetual King, feel 
perfectly safe in saying that we think it to be the finest, most productive, 
with the strongest cane of any raspberry* ever offered. The Perpetual King 
plants we have certainly made a fine growth, with foliage very healthy. 
The canes grow nearly ten feet long on spring sets. The plants are the 
strongest growers I ever saw. Two of the plants had fruit on them; the 
others we pinched back to make plants. It is one of the best rooters of all 
the tip varieties. We have not had a general fruit crop yet, but we can get 
some idea of it by June, The originator sent us a cane that measured 
inches in circumference taken, from which the above engravingwas made. 
The cut represents a cane that was cut back and the arms shown on same 
