ALPINE EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES. 
Red, Black, White and Bush or Runnerless Varieties, Which Fruit Freely From Seed 
the First Summer, and Bear Continually all the Season. 
To many this plate will be the most interesting thing in our Catalogue. The idea of growing Strawberries from 
seed, the plants bearing a good crop of fruit the first summer, and continuing to bear until frost, will seem most re¬ 
markable. Our experience with them is as follows: Last March or April we sowed seed (under glass) of the varieties here 
offered. The young plants appeared in a short time and grew well, and in May were transplanted to the open ground 
By the first of July they commenced blooming and the first fruits ripened about the 14th of that month. From that time 
there was ripe fruit continually until late in October, The berries while not quite so large as the garden varieties are much 
higher flavored. In fact they are in quality far superior to all others. A few of them will perfume a whole room so great 
is their delicious aroma. Who could desire a more unique novelty than this. Grow Strawberries from seed, like Pansies 
and have delicious fruit all summer, some, white, some red, some black, and some (the bush varieties) which produce no 
runners. We can recommend all our customers to try them, feeling sure that the result will be even more satisfactory than 
one can anticipate. 
^Ipii^e KVerbearipg, 
Rapper Varieties. 
These are everbearing, fruiting freely from June till 
October. The plants increase rapidly by runners like 
ordinary sorts. All perfectly hardy in any climate. 
Red Alpine —Long, dark crimson, high, aromatic flavor, 
great yielder. Pkt., 10c. 
White Alpine —Same as the above, but a beautiful 
snowy white in color. Pkt., 10c. 
Black Alpine —A sort bearing large fruit which is of a 
dark crimson black color, and highly flavored. Con¬ 
trasts finely with the white and red varieties. This is 
the black variety shown on this plate. Pkt.. 20c. 
Janus Improved —Is a very fine variety characterized 
by the fruit being conical, large and well shaped, and 
becoming almost blackish when perfectly ripe. It is 
very productive, a very continuous bearer and highly 
worthy in every respect. Very scarce. Pkt., 30c. 
Berger —A new and improved sort, resembles somewhat 
the improved red, but its fruit is still longer and thicker 
than that variety. It is a vigorous kind, giving a con¬ 
tinuous supply; specially on the young plants, of good 
flavored, fine scarlet fruit, remarkable for its large size. 
Pkt., 20c. 
Mixed Sorts —Fine mixed seed of above five sorts, all 
of which fruit well the first season. 20c.per pkt. 
Plants —We can supply plants of the above varieties, 
mixed, at 60c. per dozen. 
s^Ipiae EVerbearipg, 
Basfy Varieties. 
Wonderful berries having no runners, but growing 
into immense stool plants; fruit similar to other Alpine; 
enormous yielder, single plants in this State having yielded 
one pint of berries at a picking in November. Fine for 
borders, as they throw out no runners, and are singularly 
beautiful when loaded with their dense crops of fruit; grow 
easily from seed; the seedlings bearing well the first summer. 
Perfectly hardy and of exquisite flavor. City people, or 
others, who desire to do so, can grow the bush varieties 
admirably in pots. They are well adapted to pot culture, 
and will even fruit well during winter. We know of no 
greater novelty than these charming Bush Strawberries. 
Everbearing Bush White— Beautiful snow-white 
fruit of exquisite flavor, as shown on this colored plate. 
Per pkt., 20c. 
Everbearing Bush Red— Like the above, but a fine 
crimson color; finely represented on this colored plate. 
Per pkt., 20c. 
One packet each of the two sorts for joc. 
Plants —We can supply fine plants of these Everbearing 
Bush Strawberries, either separate or mixed, as follows: 
3 for 25c.; 12 for 85c. 
THE TREE STRAWBERRY, OR STRAWBERRY-RASPBERRY. 
The Largest, and Most Beautiful Berry in the World, and the 
Most Froductive and Easily Grown. 
This is one of the most unique and at the same time the largest and most beautiful berry of any kind that has yet 
appeared before the public. It comes to us from Japan, and is of the Raspberry family, though in many respects it re¬ 
sembles a Strawberry, growing on a bush two feet high. The plant is entirely hardy in any location, and a most prolific 
yielder, ripening an enormous crop of fruit in July and August, and more or less all the time up to November. In quality 
the fruit is called good, though not so finely flavored as either the Strawberry or Raspberry, but quite as good as most 
Blackberries. It is very fine when cooked, and makes a jelly which has a unique flavor and is superior to the jelly of any 
other fruit. In habit of growth the plant is distinct from both the fruits named. The root is perennial, throwing up num¬ 
erous strong branching shoots, which are covered with its large, beautiful berries the whole summer, from early in 
July until freezing weather, rendering it a perpetual beater. The canes or shoots die to the earth in winter, new ones be¬ 
ing thrown up the following spring, which begin blooming and setting fruit at once. The foliage is light green in color 
bright, clean, cheerful and pleasing, and exempt from attacks of all insects and diseases. The berries are globular 
slightly oblong in form, monstrous in size, a rich, glossy, ruby-red color, sweet and melting and of such transparent beauty 
as to cause everyone to shout with amazement upon first seeing a plant in bearing. The blossoms, too should not be 
overlooked. They resemble in appearance single roses (the petals being cupped) snow white in color, and are richly 
and deliciously fragrant. As these exquisite flowers are produced constantly from early spring until autumn, the plant is 
well worthy of cultivation if it produced nothing but flowers. This berry is so hardy and vigorous that it may be planted 
in any waste or out of the way place, along fences, etc., where it will naturalize, take care of itself and bear enormously as 
a wild berry. The past season we gathered thirty bushels of berries from three rows, each 600 feet long 
Strong plants, 20c. each; 3 for 50c’; 7 for $1.00; 15 for $2.00; 30 for $3.00. Seed, 15c. per pkt. 
LITHO BY H.M.WALL,BROOKLYN,NY 
