SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901, 
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NEW YORK. 
Hew York— This is the big fellow that won the $100 gold 
prize last year over the Glen Mary. After fruiting the. 
berry another year we find it still in the lead for large 
size, productiveness and health and vigor of plant. Miss 
Martha Gf. Yates of Tompkins county, N. Y., an ex school 
teacher who prefers fruit growing to teaching, was the 
lucky winner of the $100 in gold. Tim following is her 
description of the berry : “The strawberry plants I sent 
you to compete with Glen Mary were seedlings of a large 
Bubach No. 5 Strawberry, circumference 7M inches, fer¬ 
tilized with Jessie. We always call these “The Big Berry." 
Everyone who sees them is astonished at their size and 
productiveness. AVe always sell of these berries at a fancy 
price to people who board here during the summer.” 
As fruited here the berries are large to very large, season 
of ripening medium; color dark scarlet, changing to 
crimson when fully ripe; colors all over at once, no green 
sides or green tips. When the berry commences to ripen 
on one side you will find it in the same stage of ripening 
all over. The duality is good. In growth of plant it is 
very large and stalky, equaling in this respect the very 
largest ever grown and for health and vigor of plant we 
have yet to see one that would surpass it, though we 
have grown hundreds of varieties. 60c. per doz.; $2.00 per 
loo; $i5.oo per 1 , 000 . 
IVlineoia— For a general all-round Strawberry, we believe 
this to be the finest variety in cultivation. It originated 
on Long Island and has been cultivated here for ten or a 
dozen years by a few growers, and was first introduced 
into general cultivation by us. The fruit is of very large 
size and exceedingly sweet and luscious in quality, in 
this respect surpassing any other variety. It is a most 
vigorous grower, its foliage being of great size and 
wonderfully healthy and luxuriant. The fruit is borne on 
tall stems, which hold them well up from the sand and 
dirt below. The berries are perfect in shape, beautiful in 
color, enormous in size and exceedingly prolific, suc¬ 
ceeding well on all soils. Either as a market, home or 
exhibition berry it is par excellence. Fine plants, 40c. per 
dozen; $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 1,000. 
Grim’s Double Cropper— A new sort, which was originated 
in New Jersey by a Mr. Crims. The introducer says of 
it. “In the spring of 1896 I planted 2 fi acres of the 
Double Cropper and in June, 1897, gathered and marketed 
several hundred bushels of fruit, and in the following 
September I gathered and marketed in New York over 
100 bushels more of fine large berries, which sold for 
prices ranging from 50c. to 75c. per quart.” This state¬ 
ment, being verified,- is sufficient to make the Double 
Cropper at once an acknowledged acquisition. "With us 
it is a most healthy and vigorous grower, with fine dark 
rich foliage. Our plants are from the originator and 
are therefore genuine. 40c. per dozen; $1.50 per loo; 
$ 10.00 per i,ooo. 
&PFCIAF OFFER—6 plants each of all 8 fine Strawberries 
for $2."\ 12 plants each for $3.50 , or 100 plants each for $10.GO. 
The galloon gerry. 
Plant grows 10 to 15 feet high, and, like the AYineberry the 
canes are covered with silky red hairs. Fruit ripens all 
summer, and is very large, shaped somewhat like a straw¬ 
berry, or more like a balloon, from which its name is de¬ 
rived. Color of fruit, clear yellow, tinged red; as large and 
as handsome as the Tree Strawberry. Luther Burbank 
who has grown this berry for several years, and from whom 
we purchased the entire stock, says of it: “Itcame to me 
from my collector in Japan, whq found it back in the in¬ 
terior. It is a large-growing, vigorous, hardy plant, some¬ 
what 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 
noarly all summer, is clear yellow, shaded red, inflated so 
as _ to resemble a balloon. Cultivation will make it as de¬ 
licious as it is ornamental. A most unique, highly orna¬ 
mental and valuable berry, unlike anything else. Fruits 
finely here, even up to November. Fine plants, 20c. each * 
3 for 50c.; 7 for $ 1 . 00 . Seeds, 10c. per pkt. It grows very 
quickly and rapidly from seed. 
Tree Strawberry, 
OR STRAWBERRY-RASPBERRY. 
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, groov¬ 
ing on a bush two feet high. 
The plant is entirely hardy in 
any location, and a most pro¬ 
fuse yielder, ripening an enor¬ 
mous crop of fruit in July and 
August, and more or less all 
the time up to November. In 
quality the fruit it 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, throw¬ 
ing up numerous, strong,branching shoots,which are covered 
with its large, beautiful berries the whole summer, from 
early in July until freezing weather, rendering it a per¬ 
petual bearer. T he canes or shoots die to the earth in winter, 
new ones being 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 ex¬ 
empt 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. 15c. each; 
5 for 50c.; 12 for $1.00; 30 for $2.00. Seed, 10c. per pkt. 
