SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. 
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■ Guilds’ F^ e rbearii>g 
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 its fruiting period 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 productive¬ 
ness, enormous size, long season of bearing, and perfect 
hardiness in the coldest parts of the country, make it the 
most valuable of all berries for family use. Some of our cus¬ 
tomers 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, 20c, each; 3 for 50c.; 12 for $1.50. 
TWo Fii>e Blackberries. 
Price, 3 for 25c.; 12 for 75c.; 100 for $2.50. 
Erie—It is in every sense a superb Blackberry, being enor 
mously prolific, hardy, the fruit large in size, perfect in 
shape, sw T eet and luscious in quality. Is soft and melting 
to the taste, being ripe and sugary to the very core. 
Early Harvest— The earliest Blackberry grown and in every 
way a grand good sort. Often grows eight feet high, and 
a perfect mass of fruit from top to bottom. 
SPECIAL OFFER. 
1 each of the 5 Blackberries here ofieredfov 60c.; 3 each for $i.- : 
i& BLACKBERRY 
New 7 Blackberry Ratfibap. 
Surpassing any other variety. Two comm on quart boxes,, 
one of the Bathbun and one of the Snyder variety, were- 
picked and counted. The basket of Bathbun was filled by 
45 berries, while it required 164 berries of the Snyder to fill; 
the quart. One of the Bathbun berries was, at the same¬ 
time, measured and found to be 1% inches long and 1% 
inches in diameter. A large proportion of the berries will 
measure from' IK to lK inches in length, and the whole crop, 
is very uniform. The fruit of the Bathbun, unlike most 
Blackberries, has no hard core, in fact, no c-ore is perceived 
in eating it. All is soft, sweet and luscious, with a high flavor.. 
It'is superior to ali the well known varieties in cultivation in 
this quality. On this point it may be said that there is nothing- 
more to be desired, and it is ndt probable that there wall ever 
be a variety to surpass it in this particular. The Bathbun 
was severely tested for hardiness during the winter of l895-96„ 
when for several days the temperature was 20 degrees below 
zero, but did not kill the vines. The plant is a strong, erect 
grower, and, unlike m ost varieties, it produces but few suck¬ 
ers. It sends up a strong main stem which, branches freely. 
These branches curve.over and bend downward till the tips- 
touch the ground. Then late in the season they send out; 
roots from the tips of the branches and thus propogate them¬ 
selves in the manner of a Black Cap Baspberry. 25c. each ~ 
5 for $1.00; 12 for $ 2 ".00. 
Iceberg 
Blackberry. 
It bears loads, of delicious. 
Snowy berries, which are 
not only white, but so trans¬ 
parent that the seeds, which 
are unusually small, may be 
seen in the ripe berries. 
“ Clusters larger than those « 
of Lawton: berries at least as |j| 
large, earlier, sweeter, and 
more tender and melting 
throughout, though as firm 
as Lawton is, when ripe.” No 
garden should be without 
this grand White Black¬ 
berry. Strong plants, 20c. 
each ; 3 for 50c.; 7 for $1.00; 
, 15 for $2.00. 
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