Proven Berry Plants i i KNOTT’S BERRY PLACE , 
Trees and Vines 
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The Y oungberry 
A Basket of Young-berries —% Actual Size 
The Young-berry —The fruit is very 
large and very juicy, with a rich blended 
flavor that is pleasing to nearly every¬ 
one. The color so very dark red that it 
is nearly black and the seeds are few in 
number and soft. The vines are vigorous 
growers; trailing in habit, and should be 
trellised. The fruit is borne on long 
fruit stems that thrust it away from the 
vines ready to be picked, and the canes 
are not very thorny, which makes pick¬ 
ing very easy. If you are not growing 
Youngberries you should, for you are 
missing something. It thrives well over 
nearly all of the United States. 
The Youngberry is now the most pop¬ 
ular berry grown in Southern California, 
excepting only strawberries, and its con¬ 
sumption is gaining very fast on straw¬ 
berries. It is popular with the consumer, 
because it is so very good, and good for 
so many different uses. It is popular 
with the growers because it is easier to 
raise, and cheaper to prune and to har¬ 
vest than most other varieties, and be¬ 
cause it produces large crops regularly. 
These are all points that are quickly re¬ 
flected in net profits. 
The acreage in Youngberries has been 
increasing steadily all over the United 
States and the acreage in the southern 
half of California has been increasing by 
leaps and bounds. The Government Mar¬ 
ket News Service reported 56 car-loads 
sold on the Los Angeles market during 
1932, 127 carloads sold in 1933, and in 
1934 there were 205 carloads of Young¬ 
berries sold in Los Angeles. And in ad¬ 
dition to this there were approximately 
ten carloads canned, and nearly ten car¬ 
loads frozen for the bakers, and some 
two hundred carloads sold directly to 
consumers and to stores in other cities 
outside of Los Angeles. In spite of this 
tremendous increase in production, aver¬ 
age prices remained just about the same 
during the three-year period, which 
clearly indicates that the public demand 
for the fruit is increasing just about as 
fast as the production. 
While figures like these are a little 
unusual for a catalog, our reason for 
giving them is so that growers in other 
sections of the U. S., where Youngberries 
are not yet heavily produced, may realize 
what a demand there is in store for 
them when they produce enough berries 
for the public to get acquainted with 
them. One berry grower, back in the 
Middle West, who got plants from us 
two or three years ago, told us that when 
his Youngberries were ripe he took a 
few baskets to town and distributed 
them as samples to a few prominent 
people. He said, that from that time on 
he had no trouble in selling his berries 
and that most of the time the customers 
drove out to his farm for the berries. 
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