TO MY PATRONS AND FRIENDS:-Continued. 
To the cultivation, propagation and distribution of this crown of my 
life’s labor with my horticultural friends, which even responds to intelli- 
gent care, I propose after this present season to devote my exclusive atten- 
tion. I not only wish to receive the legitimate pecuniary reward for past 
and future work with this peculiar fruit, but in its distribution hope to 
contribute to the desirable fruit products of the world and to indirectly 
bless its people. 
In the autumn of 1904 I placed sample plants with fourteen State and 
Government agricultural experiment stations, prominent horticulturists, in 
all twenty, in different localities In the United States and Canada, it has 
been entered in the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C., as the 
Hugo Beyer perpetual black cap raspberry. 
SEEDS. — As the business has been extended over to the present sea- 
son, the usual care has been exercised to maintain the popularity and high 
standard they have held, by which they have distinguished themselves; 
to possess full germinating qualities, and selected from the best strains of 
each kind to make them the most desirable and reliable, to realize satis- 
factory results, that with confidence I can offer them again for the coming 
season. Thanking my friends for former liberal patronage, I trust to be 
kindly remembered by all in need of seeds. If your wants are but small, 
don’t hesitate in sending, as all orders always receive prompt and careful at- 
tention, and are speedily and I iberal lyfil led, to the entire satisfaction of the 
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purchaser. 
Wishing all a prosperous season, I remain as ever, 
Most respectfully yours, 
HUGO BEYER. 
New London, Iowa. February, 1905. 
