GENEVA, NEW YORK 
June. Very excellent red raspberry. A new variety 
propagated by N. Y. Experiment Station and recom- 
mended by them. Very large, prolific and vigorous. Good 
both for canning and table use. 
Loudon. A new red raspberry which originated at 
Janesville, Wis. Said to be a seedling of the Turner 
crossed with Cuthbert. Large, broadly conical, beautiful 
red. Ripens about with Cuthbert, continuing later, and in 
quality better than that variety. One of the best. 
Marlboro. It is a strong grower with strong side arms; 
it is perfectly hardy. The large size of its dark green 
foliage is the means of its early, regular and late bearing and 
extraordinary size of fruit; in color a bright crimson and, 
unlike others, does not loose its brilliancy when over ripe; 
of a good quality and very prolific. 
Shaffer’s Colossal. Fruit very large purplish red, 
rather soft, but luscious and of a rich, sprightly flavor. A 
strong grower, hardy and enormously productive. Un- 
equalled for family use, and one of the best for canning; 
season medium to late. 
Yellow Raspberries 
Golden Queen. Large size, great beauty, high quality, 
perfectly hardy, and very productive; equal to Cuthbert in 
size of fruit and vigor of growth. Ripens in mid-season. 
No home garden should be without it. 
Black Raspberries 
Cumberland. The bush is hardy, a vigorous grower, 
and exceptionally productive. Fruit of uniform size, and 
larger than any known black raspberry. Many specimens 
are from seven-eighths to fifteen-sixteenths of an inch in 
diameter. In quality it is equal to Gregg, ripening a few 
days earlier than that variety. It is very firm and a good 
shipper. 
Black Diamond. Berries large, very sweet and pulpy, 
yet fine for shipping and evaporating. Canes strong and 
fruitful. Early. 
Plum Farmer. Fruit very large, average nearly an inch 
in diameter, bush a very vigorous grower. Early. 
Gregg. Jet black, never falls from the bushes, and of 
first quality; canes of strong growth, perfectly hardy and 
immensely productive. ^ 
Ohio. The greatest producer among Black Caps, and 
for canning or evaporating the most profitable of all. 
Berry not quite as large as Gregg; plant hardy. 
Souhegan. One of the most profitable Black Caps now 
grown. It is productive, large, jet-black, without bloom, 
firm, and earlier than any other Black Cap. It is a strong 
grower and perfectly hardy. 
Strawberry-Raspberry (Rubus Sorbifolius). One of the 
remarkable recent introductions from Japan. A beautiful 
dwarf raspberry, seeming to be a hybrid between the rasp- 
berry and strawberry'. Fruit is early, stands well out from 
the foliage, size and shape of a strawberry, color, brilliant 
crimson. 
BLACKBERRIES 
It is natural for blackberries to grow much stronger than raspberries, but the mode of culture is about the 
Permit three or four canes to grow the first season; pinch back when three feet high. Prune back to tour leet. 
in rows six to seven feet apart, three feet in a row. 
same. 
Plant 
Agawam. Fruit medium size; jet-black, sweet, tender 
and melting to the core. A very valuable variety for 
HOME use; being sweet throughout as soon as black; very 
hardy, healthy and productive. 
Blower. Large size, jet-black, good shipper, best 
quality, unexcelled productiveness. 
Erie. Fruit very large, excellent quality, handsome and 
firm and ripens early; fruit uniform both in size and shape. 
There is no other berry that rivals it in combining hardi- 
ness, large size, earliness and productiveness. 
Eldorado. The vines are very hardy and vigorous, 
enduring the winters of the far Northwest without injury. 
The berries are large, jet black, borne in large clusters and 
ripen well together. 
Rathbun. The tips touch the ground and root, thus 
propagating themselves like the black cap raspberry. The 
fruit is borne in clusters; berries very large, color intense 
black with a high polish; small seeds; fiesh juicy, high 
flavored, sweet and delicious. Carries well to market. In 
season medium early. 
Snyder. A marvel for productiveness; fruit medium 
size, sweet and melting to the core. Its value is its extreme 
hardness, standing the winters in those sections where the 
Kittatinny and Early Harvest kill down. 
Taylor. A good succession for Snyder in cold climates. 
Ripens its large, luscious berries some weeks later. Vigor- 
ous, hardy and fruitful. 
Wachusett Thornless. Fruit of medium size, oblong, 
oval, moderately firm, and less acid than any blackberry 
we have seen. The plant is said to do equally as well on 
light and heavy soils. It is also hardy and almost free from 
thorns. 
Wilson’s Early. Very large, shining black, retaining its 
color well after picking, and fine for the table as soon as full 
colored; quite firm, sweet, rich and good; ripens mainly 
together, and two weeks before the height of the blackberry 
season. 
Dewberries or Running Blackberries 
Lucretia. The plants are perfectly hardy and healthy, 
and remarkably productive. The fruit which ripens with 
the Mammoth Cluster raspberry, is very large, soft sweet 
and luscious throughout, without any hard center or core. 
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Rathbun Blackberries 
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