How would you like to pick these big berries? Vines just loaded with berries one inch through and one and one-half inches long. 
Only 30 to 35 berries to the basket right down the row, and customers waiting for them. You will enjoy it; and your pickers will beg 
to be allowed to pick Boysen berries. 
BOYSEN BERRY. 
(Actual Size) 
The BOYSEN BERRY—a 1935 Berry Sensation 
THE BEST EVER 
Boysen Berry —For ten years, ever 
since we brought the first Youngberry 
plants to California, we have been bring¬ 
ing in new varieties from all over the 
United States, and some from foreign 
countries, and trying them out here, al¬ 
ways with the hope of finding an out¬ 
standing new variety for ourselves and 
our customers. The Youngberry was such 
a berry, and those who started eight or 
nine vears ago with them have made 
money; of course, the biggest returns 
came during the first few years, while 
the demand was greater than the supply 
of fruit. Unless a new variety was supe¬ 
rior to the kinds we were already grow¬ 
ing we have discarded it without ever 
offering it for sale and very, very few 
have passed this test. We have dug up 
and thrown away thousands of expen¬ 
sive bushes after caring for them until 
they came into bearing. Some we have 
kept two or three years before discard¬ 
ing them. Always with the hope of find¬ 
ing a berry that would be superior to 
the Youngberry, just as the Youngberry 
has been superior to the varieties it has 
superseded. 
In 1932 we secured the few plants 
there were in existence of a new berry 
that Mr. Rudolph Boysen, Superintend¬ 
ent of Parks of Anaheim, California, had 
proj>agated by crossing Loganberries, 
raspberries, and blackberries. They grew 
wonderfully and when they fruited in 
1933 we realized that we had the berry 
taht we had been looking for all of these 
years. Since then we have increased our 
planting just as fast as we possibly 
could, for we saw a great future for this 
berry and we wanted to give it to our 
customers just as soon as possible, for 
we knew that a new and profitable vari¬ 
ety would be a great help to hard- 
pressed growers during this depression 
period. We have five acres now and we 
are preparing land to set out fifteen 
acres more about February first. We 
have named this, finest of all berries, 
BOYSEN berry, in honor of Mr. Boysen. 
We will have a limited number of plants 
to sell this season. More than half of 
ail we can produce this year were or¬ 
dered, before our catalog went to press, 
by commercial berry growers, nursery¬ 
men, and home owners, who saw the fruit 
at our place this past summer. 
We have been right here in the com¬ 
mercial berry business for 14 years, and 
are perhaps the largest individual pro¬ 
ducer of berries in Southern California, 
so we are very familiar with all phases 
of berry growing and marketing. We be¬ 
lieve, and, in fact, we are very sure, that 
the Boysen berry will be the best money 
maker of all of the berries during the 
next few years. We believe it so 
strongly that we are making our new 
planting this season nearly all Boysen. 
The Boysen berry makes a vine veri¬ 
similar to the Youngberry, except that 
the cane growth is a little more vigorous 
and the leaves are darker green and the 
fruit spurs, that grow in the spring from 
each leaf joint on the main canes, aver¬ 
age about two inches longer. These long 
fruit spurs project the berries well away 
from the vines and make picking very 
easy. There are one or two more berries 
per spur than with Youngberries and 
the berries are much larger and ripen 
more slowly. It should be grown on a 
trellis four or five feet high. The fruit 
starts ripening about ten days after 
Youngberries, which would be about 
June first in this locality on average sea¬ 
sons, and they last about two weeks 
after Youngberries are gone, which 
means that we finish picking here late 
in July. It is absolutely the largest 
bush or vine berry that we have ever 
seen, and will average right through the 
season at least one-half larger than 
Youngberries. In color the fruit is iden¬ 
tical with Youngberries, but it is more 
highly flavored and is less seedy. It is 
very superior to Youngberries for can¬ 
ning and it keeps better and stands ship¬ 
ping better than Youngberries do. 
The Boysen berry is exceedingly pro¬ 
lific. In our fields this past season our 
average production for Youngberries was 
twelve thousand baskets per acre, while 
our Boysen berries produced at the rate 
of twenty-two thousand baskets per acre. 
Our Boysen berries sold readily at 30% 
higher prices than Youngberries when 
we had them side by side and at the 
end of the season, when our Youngber¬ 
ries were all gone, we got fine prices 
for the Boysen. 
From our original planting of Boysen 
berries, consisting of one hundred plants, 
which were bearing their second crop 
last summer, we kept an exact record 
through the whole season and here are 
the results. We started picking May 
22nd and finished July 19th. which made 
eight weeks of picking. The heaviest 
production came in the twenty days be¬ 
tween June 5th and June 25th. (In con¬ 
sidering these dates take into consider¬ 
ation that all varieties of berries were 
at least two weeks early in 1934 season.) 
From this hundred plants we picked 
2200 baskets which brought an average 
price of 8c per basket, making the re¬ 
turns in money $176.00. These plants 
occupied just one-tenth of an acre. 
In 1927 we sold $1520.00 from an acre 
of Youngberries, which record we hav" 
never since equaled, until our Boysen 
berries broke it this past summer with 
returns at the rate of $1760.00 per acre. 
In order to beat this Youngberry record, 
which has stood unequaled on our farm 
for seven years, our Boysen berries had 
to produce 50% larger crop than the 
Youngberries did, because all berry 
prices are so much lower now than they 
were in 1927. 
One of the surest ways there is to 
know the actual size of a berry is to 
count the number that is required to fill 
a standard box. Last season our Young¬ 
berries averaged 60 berries per box, our 
genuine blackberries ran from 100 to 
110 berries per box and our Boysen ber¬ 
ries averaged 35 berries per box and 
weighed from two to three ounces over¬ 
weight per basket. (We use %-pound 
baskets in California.) 
If you are in the berry business for 
PROFIT be SURE to plant this berry, 
for of course you know that finer and 
larger fruit wil bring you buyers and 
will command prices that will make 
money for you. 
If you are growing berries for your 
own use, a row of Boysen berries will be 
the pride of your garden, and there isn’t 
any use in our telling you how many 
berries they will make, nor how big they 
will be, for you won’t believe it, any 
way, until you see them growing. 
Like nearly everyone, berry growers 
have had a nretty hard time the past two 
or three years; this we know from our 
own experience, and we are certainly 
pleased now to be able to offer you this 
new berry that will make you money. 
HOW CAN IT HELP IT when it is finer, 
and so much bigger, than other berries, 
and is new and not over produced? Order 
early, for these plants will be sold out 
long before the season is over. Plants 
will be ready any time after January 
first. 
