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ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
NAME. 
Highland Hardy, 
Philadelphia, 
Pride of the I 
Hudson, f 
Rancocas. 
Reliance 
Shaffer’s Colossal 
Marlboro. 
Turner, 
Brinckle’s Orange, 
Caroline, 
Golden Queen. 
Gregg, 
Johnston's Sweet. 
Mammoth Cluster 
(McCormick), 
DESCRIPTION. 
Plants very hardy and thrifty ; unusually productive ; succeeds on most any soil, 
and ripens the fruit very early ; berry good size, bright red and sufficiently 
firm for shipping. Valuable for market. 
This is undoubtedly one of the most profitable Red Raspberries for marketing now 
under cultivation. It is a stout, healthy grower, very hardy and immensely 
productive. The fruit is of the largest size, and presents a fine appearance,, 
even after it has been transported a long distance to market. 
Mr. Charles Downing asserts it is the “ best flavored of the Red Raspberries.” It 
will not thrive in the South or on light soil, but in the garden with partial 
shade, or in conditions like those on which it originated, it is unrivalled. 
There is scarcely a country home where moist and partial shade spots cannot 
be found. The northern side of a wall, hedge, or row of pear trees would 
supply just the condition of success with this most delicious fruit. Is not 
exquisite quality worth a little trouble? 
Very vigorous, throwing out numerous fruiting branches, giving it the appear¬ 
ance of a miniature tree. Its productiveness cannot be excelled, apd it has- 
that most valuable quality in a market berry of ripening its fruit in a short 
space of time. As a shipper it is perfect, ripening with the earliest; the color 
is a bright red ; size medium to large ; quality best. 
New ; produces berries of the largest size ; color dark, and quality better than 
Brandywine. Enormously productive : very desirable. 
Colossal both in bush and berry. Carries to market well; excellent to dry and 
unsurpassed for canning. Berry dark crimson in color and excellent in qual¬ 
ity ; a very valuable variety. Does not sucker, but roots from tips like Black 
Caps. 
Large size, light crimson color ; good quality and firm. Plant vigorous and pro¬ 
ductive The first berries ripen quite early, but the entire crop covers a 
period of four or five weeks in ripening. 
A beautiful red berry of fine size and excellent quality : said to be the hardiest and 
most productive variety known. 
YELLOW RASPBERRIES. 
Large, orange yellow ; high flavored, tender. 
Said to be a hybrid between Brinckle’s Orange and Catawissa. The fruit so 
closely resembles Brinckle’s, both in appearance and quality, as to require an 
expert to distinguish them. The canes are vigorous, prolific and quite hardy, 
without protection. From its superior quality and hardiness, it is of great 
vame for the home garden. 
This variety is a seedling of the .Cuthbert, but the color of the fruit is a rich 
golden yellow. The flavor is of the highest quality, pronounced by some supe¬ 
rior to the old Brinkle’s Orange, the finest flavored of all the Raspberries. 
In size equal to Cuthbert; immensely productive ; a very strong grower, and 
hardy enough even for extreme Northern latitudes, having stood uninjured 
when even the Cuthbert suffered. The desire for a yellow raspberry of high 
quality combined with vigorous growth and perfect hardiness, is believed to 
be fully met in this variety. 
BLACK CAPS. 
'This is decidedly the largest Blacic Cap that we have ever seen, far surpassing in 
size the famed Mammoth Cluster, avei aging, when grown side by side, with 
i the same treatment, from one-third to one-half larger. 
New. This is the sweetest Raspberry grown. It takes less sugar either for the 
table or for canning or evaporating, than any other sort. The flavor is delic¬ 
ious. It is a great bearer; nearly equal in size to Gregg, and if you can have 
but one kind, choose this. 
jOf all the Black Cap family, this has | i oved one of the most wonderful in produc¬ 
tiveness, size, and uniformity of fruit, and stockiness and hardiness of plant. 
The bush a strong, upright grower ; foliage a rich, dark green ; fruit large and 
ho ds out large to the very last picking; black, with a rich purplish bloom; 
very juicy, high flavored and delicious; perfectly hardy, the surface suffi¬ 
ciently firm to bear transportation to distant markets. 
1 he greatest producer among Black Caps, and for canning or evaporating claimed 
to be the most profitable of all sorts. Berry nor quite as large as Gregg, but 
finer quality and the plants more hardy and will bear more successive crops. 
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