CATALOGUE OF SPECIALTIES AND NOVELTIES FOR 1900. 
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Guilds’ Everbearing Tree 
Blackberry. 
For a Blackberry, it is the largest, finest flavored, most 
prolific, fruiting for two months, and requires no stakes, 
it grows from five to seven feet high, branching freely into 
a fine tree form, as seen in the cut, straight and erect. The 
berries are of enormous size, equalled only by the Erie, 
borne in large clusters, which commence to ripen early in 
July and continue into September, making the fruiting 
season nearly two months or more. The finest Blackberries 
we ever ate we picked about September first from some of 
these plants, which had been ripening fruit since July 8th. 
They are exceedingly sweet, juicy and delicious, melting in 
the mouth without a particle of hard core. Its delicate 
flavor, great productiveness, enormous size, long season of 
bearing, and perfect hardiness in the coldest pans of the 
country, make it the most valuable of all berries for family 
use. Some of our customers who bought it last year report 
that the plants fruited last summer and berries proved to be 
the largest and finest ever seen, and that the symmetrical 
branching of the plants makes them perfect little trees. 
Price, first quality, large ana strong, toe. each; $ for 50c.; is 
for $1.50. 
Straw’berry, 
GREAT WASHINGTON. 
The real giant among big Strawberries. This important 
now sort originated in the State of Washington. Samples 
which we received in February were potted, and bore fine 
fruit in April. Several hundred plants planted out in April 
■fruited fairly well, though no fruit was expected the first 
season. The berry is not only the very largest and hand¬ 
somest m cultivation, but by all odds the best flavored. It 
is also a great cropper, and vines are extremely healthy and 
vigorous, a merit not possessed by any other large sort. 
W hat more need be said. It is certainly the grandest Straw- 
herry .ever introduced. 6 plants for 50c.; 12 for 80c.; 25 for 
$l.o0; 100 for $5.00. 
The Balloop Berry- 
Another wonderful new fruit from Japan, offered last 
year for the first time. The plant grows 10 to 15 feet high, 
and, like the Wineberry, the canes are covered with silky 
red hairs. Fruit ripens all summer, and is very large, shaped 
somewhat like a Strawberry, or more like a balloon, from 
which its name is derived. Color of fruit, clear yellow, 
tinged with red; as large and as handsome as the Tree 
Strawberry. In fact, it contrasts magnificently with that 
superb fruit, the ruby color of the oi!e and golden yellow of 
the other, together with the enormous size of both, makefe a 
glorious show. Luther Kurbank, who lias grown this berry 
for several years, and from whom we purchased the entire 
stock, savs of it: “It, comes to me from my collector in 
Japan, who found it. back in the interior. 'It is a large- 
growing, vigorous, hardy plant, somewhat inclined to trail, 
Grows 10 to 15 feet long, and an inch or more in diameter at 
the base in good soil. Leaves very handsome, compound, 
lanceolate. Fruit, which is ripening nearly all summer, is 
clear yellow, shaded red, inflated so as to resemble a balloon. 
Cultivation will make it as delicious as it is ornamental. A 
most unique, highly ornamental and valuable berry, unlike 
anything else. Fruits finely here, even up to November. 
Fine plants, 20c. each : 2 for 50c.; 7 for $1.00. Seed, 10c. per 
pkt. It grows very quickly and rapidly from seed. 
