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Catalogue and Price List 
The blackberry does best on a deep moist soil, but will succeed on 
any good land where it can get plenty of moisture. It should bo 
planted the same as raspberries and requires about the same treatment. 
Canes should be pinehed back when three feet high and branches cut 
back to fifteen inches the next spring. Blackberries require a great 
deal of moisture, and cultivation should be thorough or the rows kept 
heavily mulched. 
Snyder. Probably the best hardy 
variety, wonderfully productive. Ber- 
ries medium in size, sweet and juicy, 
and when fully ripe without hard core. 
FSICn, 5 cents each, 50 cents per doz- 
en, $2.50 per 100. 
W acliiiHetts. A low-growing va- 
riety with but few thorns. Fruit large 
and of good quality. Moderately pro- 
ductive and hardy. Ripens after the 
Snyder. 
FBICE, 6 cents each, 60 cents per doz. 
Crystal White. A fine white 
blackberry. Fruit medium to large, 
quality the best. Color clear white. 
Canes moderately hardy, a strong, up- 
right grower, and very productive. 
FBICE, 7 cents each, 70 cents per doz. 
Lincretia. Decidedly the best of all dewberries. It is a superb fruit large 
and handsome, of shining jet black color. Melting, juicy, and delicious in fiavor. 
Ripens ten days ahead of the Snyder blackberry. 
FBZC£, 5 cents each, 50 cents per dozen, $3.00 per 100. 
The strawberry is the first fruit of the year to ripen, and succeeds 
over a wider range of territory than any other. A prominent horticul- 
turist saysl “There is hardly anywhere an acre of Americrui soil but 
that somewhere on that acre luscious, fragrant sti'awberries can be 
produced if only the right varieties are planted.” 
The blossoms of those varieties marked with a letter “P” are des- 
titute of stamens, and are termed “ Pistillate.” Unless every third or 
fourth row, at least, is planted with some perfect blooming sort, they 
will bear very imperfect fruit and but very little of it, but when prop- 
erly fertilized, as a rule, they are more prolific than the perfect bloom- 
ing sorts. The matted row is usually the most satisfactory method of 
culture. Plant in rows three feet apart, eighteen inches in the row. 
Keep clean by thorough cultivation. Give a covering of straw or old 
hay in the fall after the ground freezes, and remove from over the 
