The NEW BOYSENBERRY-The Finest Berry of Them all 
THE BEST EVER 
Boysenberry —For ten 
years, ever since we 
brought the first Young- 
berry plants to Califor¬ 
nia, we have been bring¬ 
ing in new varieties 
from all over the United 
States, and some from 
foreign countries, and 
trying them out here, 
always with the hope of 
finding an outstanding 
new variety for our¬ 
selves and our custo¬ 
mers. The Youngberry 
was such a berry, and 
those who started eight 
or nine years 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 superior to the 
kinds we were already 
growing we have dis¬ 
carded it without ever 
offering it for sale and 
very, very few have 
passed this test. We 
have dug up and thrown 
away thousands of ex¬ 
pensive bushes after 
caring for them until 
they came into bearing. 
Some we have kept two 
or three years before 
discarding them. Al¬ 
ways with the hope of 
finding a berry that 
would be superior to 
the Youngberry, jus as 
the Youngberry has 
been superior to the 
varieties it has super¬ 
seded. 
In 1932 we secured 
the few plants there 
were in existence of a 
new berry that Mr. 
Rudolph Boysen, Super¬ 
intendent of Parks of 
Anaheim, California, 
had propagated by 
crossing Loganberries, 
raspberries, and black¬ 
berries. They grew won¬ 
derfully and when they 
fruited in 1933 we re¬ 
alized that we had the berry that 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 variety would 
be a great help to hard-pressed growers during this 
depression period. We have twenty acres now and 
we are preparing land to set out more about February 
first. We have named this, finest of all berries, BOY¬ 
SENBERRY, in honor of Mr. Boysen. We will have a 
limited number of plants to sell this season. Nearly 
half of all we can produce this year were ordered, 
before our catalog went to press, by commercial berry 
growers, nurserymen, and home owners, who saw 
the fruit at our place this past summer. 
We have been right here in the commercial berry 
business for 14 years, and are perhaps the largest 
individual producer of berries in Southern California, 
so we are very familiar with all phases of berry 
growing and marketing. We believe, and, in fact, we 
are very sure, that the Boysenberry will be the best 
money maker of all of the berries during the next 
few years. We believe it so strongly that we are mak¬ 
ing our new planting this season nearly all Boysen. 
The Boysenberry makes a vine very similar to the 
Youngberry, except that the cane growth is a little 
more vigorous and the leaves are darker green and 
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 Boysenberri«s. 
basket held one pound instead of a half pound, which 
the small varieties of berries are marketed in. 
HOBE CHOP 
Last summer, our best field of Youngberries pro¬ 
duced 14,010 half-pound baskets per acre (7,000 lbs.). 
Our best field of Macatawa blackberries produced 
15,000 half-pound baskets per acre (7,500 lbs.). Our 
best field of Boysenberries made 11,500 one-pound 
baskets per acre (11,500 lbs., nearly six tons). And 
average seasons, and they last several weeks after i^^ajpumy '\ooked h and W they^ol^readify"at^nearlv 
iTaESSL M a^te^lTlaK ‘double the" price 'received "for blackberries and 
the fruit spurs, that grow in the spring from each 
leaf joint on the main canes, average 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 
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 canning and it keeps better and stands shipping 
better than Youngberries do. 
The Boysenberry is exceedingly prolific. 
For a number of years all berries, except straw¬ 
berries, have been marketed in California in half 
pound baskets. Three of these baskets are equal to 
the quart basket used in some parts of the east. 
Boysenberries are so large, and it took so few to fill 
the small size basket, so the past season we had a 
special basket made for our Boysenberries. This 
double the price 
Youngberries. 
MORE MONEY 
The last berries were in greater demand and 
brought higher prices than the first. You will find 
returns in dollars listed in the enclosed folder on 
Boysenberries. 
Back in prosperous times, and when Youngberries 
were new in California (1927), we sold $1,520.00 from 
an acre of Youngberries, which record we have never 
since equalled, until our Boysenberries broke the 
record in 1934. Our returns per acre were $1,760.10 in 
1934, and again in 1935, the returns from our best 
acre were $1,737.50. (All of the above sales are retail 
direct from our roadside market at the farm. Whole¬ 
sales returns were lower.) 
EESS COST 
The surest way to 
know the comparative 
size of different vari¬ 
eties of berries, is to 
take an average basket, 
as they come in from 
the field, count the ber¬ 
ries required to make a 
pound. This was done 
many times at our place 
last summer, by county 
agent, agricultural 
writers, interested ber¬ 
ry growers and our¬ 
selves. The average re¬ 
sults were Boysenber¬ 
ries, 55 to 65 per pound: 
Youngberries, 90 to 100 
per pound, and the dif¬ 
ferent varieties of 
blackberries averaged 
from 120 to 160 per 
pound. Think what this 
means in cost of har¬ 
vesting; in yield, and in 
salability! 
If you are in berry 
business for PROFIT 
be SURE to plant this 
berry, for of course you 
know that finer and 
larger fruit will 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 pretty 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 aJnuary first. 
We have 20 acres in Boysenberries now, and have 
just bought 15 additional acres, which we will plant 
in the spring. 
The Boysenberry is absolutely new! It was offered 
to the public for the first time last spring (1935). 
All of the available plants were taken early and it 
was necessary for us to return 600 orders unfilled. 
This season we have a much larger supply of plants, 
but many of the people, whose orders could not be 
filled last spring, have already reordered for this 
season. Nearly half of this season’s supply of plant 
is already spoken for. The leading nurseries of Cali¬ 
fornia and Oregon have placed their orders for Boy¬ 
senberry plants early. Although planting is done later 
in the east many eastern orders have already been 
received. 
We hope you will place your order before the 
plants are all gone, because the best profits will be 
made while this variety is new and you do not have 
much competition. 
BOYSENBERRY. 
(Average Size) 
