The Home Berry Planting 
The First consideration in planting a small country place or a large fann 
should be to grow everything in the way of foods that can be consumed by the family. 
A good garden, a well planned family orchard and a home berry planting such as we 
suggest herein will insure good living as well as a small grocery bill. 
One of the best berry regions of the country lies west of the Cascades yet 
very few people are taking full advantage of this fact in their home planting. From 
the time that gooseberries start in the spring until grapes, everbeai’ing raspberries 
and everbearing strawberri(is are put an end to by fall frosts, there are few days that 
the grower cannot have fresh berries on his table. 
Avoid the “Feast and Famine’’ tj'pe of berry planting. Gooseberries 
produce the first fruit of the season in the berry planting. Plant half a dozen for a 
supply of fruit for fresh pies and sauce. Double the number if you wish to can them 
for pie making in the winter. 
Plant an equal number of curi'auts for jelly and juice. For strawberries 
plant a few Gold Dollar for early berries and IMarshall for main crop, followed by 
Ettersberg 121 or Corvallis for later berries. Everbearing strawberries will produce 
a fall crop, often permitting a November shortcake. These do best where irrigation 
is available. Progressive is the common variety. Mastoden should be avoided because 
of danger of introducing a troublesome insect into the patch. The best of all ever- 
bearings is the new Rockhill which is high priced because of scanty production of 
runners. 
Plant several varieties of raspberries to obtain a long season. Chief, Lloyd 
George and Latham give a long season with Lloyd George producing an off-season crop 
ill addition. Munger is a fine black ras])berry. 
One of the finest of all berries is the new Youngberry which should be in 
every garden. 
Plant Ideal wild blackberiies and have this best of all pie fruits growing in 
your yard. One plant of Himalaya or Braiuard blackberry Avill supply the family need 
for this type of berry, as they are very productive. 
Grapes are too often overlooked in the family planting. They are valuable 
as fresh fruit as well as for jelly, juice and wines, and are very easily grown. Prane 
them back heavily each year for best results. Island Belle or Campbells Early is the 
best local variety. Three of these and one each of Niagara, Concord and Deleware make 
a nice small family planting. 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF SMALL FRUITS FOR HOME USE. 
Ideal Wild Mountain Blackberry. This is a domesticated fonn of the wild 
blackberry of the Northwest—the best pie berry that is grown. You no longer have 
to hunt thru the woods for this fine berry, now that we are offering a domesticated 
\ariety with the same high quality. Early attempts at cultivating the wild blackberry 
failed but our Ideal is being grown commercially in Western Oregon, yielding 2 to 3 
tons per acre. It should be grown on trellis like loganberries, in rows 7 or 8 feet 
apart and 6 feet apart in the rows. A dozen plants will supply the average family. 
No planting should be without this vaiiety as it is unexcelled for ])ie, canning and 
jam and jelly. 
Youngberry. This cross between a blackberry and a loganbeiry is to our 
taste the finest cane berry grown for eating fresh. The berries are very large, wine 
colored and have a fine flavor. None of the tartness of the loganberiy and without 
the large, hard seeds of so many types of blackberries. For flavor, size and quality 
this berry is hard to beat. Besides being delicious eaten fresh, it makes fine pies and 
has high quality canned or as jam or juice. Plant it as loganberries, 8 feet apart and 
train on a trellis. 
Raspberries.—Plant in rows 2j/^ feet a])ai’t in the row. 
Cuthbert is the great commercial canning berry. Quality is high but not as 
productive as some of the following: 
ntiipf.—Tkia now variety is irrobably the most hardy red raspberry grown. 
It fr’uits a week or ten days earlier than Cuthbert. The berries are large, quality good 
and a heavy producer. Should be in every home planting. 
Lloyd George.—If we could have but one red raspberry in our garden it 
vould be Lloyd George. Fruit is large, quality high and very productive. Produces 
a fall crop which is especially productive if irrigation is possible, as is often the case 
in the home gardeir. 
Latham.—A very productive producer of large berries. Not as early as Chief 
and Lloyd George. 
Munger Black Raspberry.—This blackcap is a very satisfactory variety for 
home and cantring use. 
Gooseberry.—Oregon Champion is still about the only gooseberry in local 
use. A few bushes of this berry should be in every home plarrting as the berry makes 
a nice canned fririt and excellent pies arrd ripens early in the spriirg before any other 
fresh fruit is available. 
Currants.—Perfection is the best red variety and White Grape the leaditrg 
white variety. No housewife who prrts up jelly will be without this fruit. Half a 
dozen well eared for birshes vail provide fruit for an ample supply of jelly. 
Brainard Blackberry.—This variety is similar to Himalaya blackberry and is 
claimed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to be srrperior to that variety. Used 
for juice, jelly aird caniring. An eiroranous producer. One bush is all that airy one 
family requii’es, but allow jilenty of room for it’s expansion. Does its best in hot 
locations. 
Grapes.—Campbell Early.—(Island Belle).—A large, early, blue-black variety 
of high quality. Ripens 2 weeks ahead of Concord. 
Concord.—The best known American grape. Large, blue-black grapes of 
highest quality. 
Deleware.—Among the best red varieties. 
Niagara.—Most poplar white variety. Hardy and productive. 
Worden.—Similar to Concord but earlier. 
PRICE LIST OF BERRY PLANTS. 
Oregon Champion Gooseberry.—2 year bushes.—$1.50 doz. 
Perfection and White Grape Currants.—2 year bushes.—$1.50 doz. 
Chief, Lloyd George, Cuthbert, Latham Rasiiberries. — Husky trans¬ 
plants.—$1.50 doz. 
Youngbei'ries.—Husky transplarrts.—$1.50 doz. 
• Ideal Wild Mountain Blackberry.—Strong transplants.—$1.50 doz. 
Munger Black Raspberries.—Transplants.—$1.50 doz. 
Loganberry.—Strong transplants.—$1.50 doz. 
Brainard Blackberry.—50c each. 
Gold Dollar, iMarshall, Oregon, Corvallis and Ettersberg Strawberry plants. — 
40c doz. ; $1.25 irer 100. 
Progressive Everbearing Strawberries.—60c doz,; $2.00 per 100. 
Rockhill—the best everbearing strawberry in existence.—$1.25 doz. 
Grapes.—Two year plants 30c each; $3.00 doz. 
SPECIAL PRICES.—tlrders of $1.50 or over will be shipped postage free 
qwest of the Cascades. 
Three dozerr for $4.00 jiostpaid for any combiiratiou of gooseberries, currants, 
raspberries, youngberries, blackberries and loganberries (not less than 6 of any 
\ ariety). 
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We grow a full line of nut, fruit and shade trees, roses, 
and berry bushes. 
Pearcy Bros. Nursery . 
' Salem, Oregon 
