STROMER’S AR S E PB GROW N LA FOR PLANTS ONLY 
ALL OUR RASPBERRY PLANTS ARE TWICE STATE INSPECTED EACH YEAR 
To grow real good raspberry 
plants you cannot “Burn the 
candle on both ends.” That is, 
you cannot grow raspberries for 
fruit, and dig plants off the 
sides of the rows. Plants like 
that will be weakened by fruit¬ 
ing. Our red raspberry plants 
are grown two years, and then 
dug. They are not allowed to 
fruit during this time. We start 
them in this way. We set out 
a field of a certain variety, and 
care for them and fertilize them 
through the growing season. The 
following Spring, they are all cut 
way back even to the ground, 
and allowed to come up again. 
This cutting off prevents them from bearing, and 
makes better, stronger plants with much better 
root system. These rows are dug that Fall after a 
good hard frost, with a digging machine, and taken 
direct into cellars, where they 
are graded. The largest, and 
strongest, and best rooted plants 
are graded out, and these are 
what we call the 1 year bearing 
size. They really are 2 years 
old, but we call them 1 year 
bearing. Our transplants, 2 years 
old, are gotten by setting out 
nice thrifty 1 year plants in the 
nursery row, and grow until Fall 
and dug. These are set far 
enough apart to make heavy 
transplants that will bear a 
good many berries for you the 
same year you set them out 
in your own field. Raspberry 
plants that we dig and grade 
in the Fall are not stored. They are taken outside 
and heeled in all Winter. We do not like storage 
plants. All our Raspberry plants are perfectly 
hardy. 
A New Way to Grow 
Red Raspberries 
—is to set them in 4 foot squares, 
that is, 4 feet each way. Put 2 
plants in each hole instead of one. 
This system makes cultivation and 
hoeing an easy job. You cultivate 
each way. The 2 plants set in each 
hole will give you a full crop of 
berries the first year instead of only 
a half crop if you set only one in 
a hole. 
Latham, The Big Famous Red Raspberry 
70 Berries Known to Fill a Pint Box 
Although this is a comparatively new variety it is entirely past the experimental stage, and we unhesi¬ 
tatingly recommend Latham as one of the very best Red Raspberries ever grown. This variety originated 
at the Minnesota State Fruit Breeding Farm and is being grown extensively in Minnesota, the Dakotas, 
and Canada, and has never been known to winter-kill even though exposed to 45 degrees below zero. 
Latham is a tall, vigorous grower, canes extra heavy, foliage dark green, entirely 
free from disease. Ripens with Cuthbert and is enormously productive. Berries 
much larger than any other Red Raspberry, many of them one inch in diameter. 
Color good, quality of the best, full Raspberry flavor. Excellent for shipping or 
home use. 
Bearing Age Latham Plants—Page 23. 
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