1855 
1905 
TO MY PATRONS AND FRIENDS: 
I am thankful to be once more permitted to address ycu, especially 
as this season will close an active business career of half a century, in 
which two-thirds of my life has been devoted to horticultural pursuits. 
Fifty years is a long time, but never ending work has passed it away 
so rapidly that I have scarcely noticed its flight. This labor has been a 
constant pleasure and unending enjoyment. My life has been .free from 
trouble until four years ago when I was sorely bereft by the death of my 
beloved wife and true helpmate. This and the inconvenient business loca- 
tion, where it is extremely difficult to get skilled assistance, two-thirds of all 
work pertaining to my business having to be done by myself, makes it 
too much of a strain and I can brave it no longer. However, this compell- 
ing of personal attention has served a good purpose and is peculiarly re- 
warded in the evolution of a new fruit. 
Dependable, Perpetual Bearing Raspberry 
During the past fifteen years, incidentally with my regular horticultural 
work, my thoughts have been directed to the development of a new and' 
distinct variety of the black cap raspberry, and unparalleled success has 
crowned this effort. The habit of growth and production of this plant is pe- 
culiar in itself and can be compared with no other variety of its species; 
the fruit producing canes, which spring from the root, make a very rapid 
growth and are free branching, attaining a height of six feet and three and 
a half inches in circumference at the base; six weeks from the sprouting of 
these stalks, the fruit blooms begin to appear and rapidly multiply and the 
yield of berries is constant and steadily increasing in quantity for a period 
cf 10 or 12 weeks, or until frost arrests growth. This fruit is of large size, 
rich and delicious in flavor, firm In texiure, dark purple in color, and has 
proved itself to be a TRUE, DEPENDABLE, PERPETUAL BEARING 
RASPBERRY of unsurpassed excellence for both domestic and market 
purposes. 
