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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, QUEENS CO., N. Y. 
The San Jose Scale 
This Most Instructive of all Fruit Tree Pests 
Does Not Exist in our Nurseries. 
READ THE FOLLOWING CERTIFICATE: f 
New York I , I 
Agricultural Experiment Station, S . 
October 5th, 1895. 1 I 
1 hereby certify that I have Inspected the Nursery I 1 
Stock of John Lewis Childs, on two separate ( 1 
occasions, and have been unable to find any trace of , 1 
the “San Jose" or Pernicious Scale on his Stock. , I 
As the San Jose Scale has been extensively 
distributed from some Nurseries, we take this 
occasion to inform our customers that our 
stock is, and always has been, clear of it. 
JOHN LEWIS CHILDS. 
Childs’ Golden Japanese Mayberry. 
This is the most remarkable of all fruit novelties ever 
introduced, and. like the Wineberry. belongs to the 
Raspberry family. It.grows in sturdy tree form, six 
feet high, and ripens its fruit before Straw- 
a month before the earliest Raspberries, and 
before some of them have hardly’wakened from their 
winter’s rest. The bushes are distinct from other 
berries, with spreading, tree-like tops, large, bell-shaped, 
pendulous blossoms, which hang along the entire length of 
the branches in pairs or triplets. These large, handsome 
blossoms arc followed by great glossy berries which are of a 
golden-yellow color, aud in quality sweet and luscious be¬ 
yond description. Tliere'is nothing like It in cultivation, 
and its extreme earliness makes it at once the most import¬ 
ant of all small fruits. The bushes are entirely hardy in 
any location. We purchased this berry when there was only 
about a dozen plants of it. and it cost a small fortune. I lie 
stock is yet limited. We have every reason to believe that 
the common wild Salmon Berry of Oregon is being sola as 
the Japanese Mavberry. As the introducer we. have the 
genuine stock, and we hope people will not be deceived by 
that which is bogus. Childs’ Japanese Golden Mayberry is 
not a wild or native berry of any country, but is a Hybrid 
raised by Luther Burbank, from Japanese species. 
Price. Strong two-year-old plants, from open ground. 
25c. each ; 5 for $1.00: l*for $2.00. Green plants, ready April 
first, 15c. each; 4 for 60c.; 10 for $1.00; 25 for $2.00. 
