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Red and Purple Raspberries 
Cuthbert—This variety is the standard of 
excellence. The plants are strong, 'upright, 
healthy growers and are hardy in most sec¬ 
tions. They are quite free of diseases and 
will do well in the same place from year to 
year if well cared for. To get the best re¬ 
sults the grower should plant them on strong 
well drained soil and use plenty of commer¬ 
cial fertilizers. The surplus canes must be 
removed, cut out same as weeds, and the 
canes kept in hills or narrow continuous 
rows. If allowed to choke the rows, the 
young canes will come up as thick as grass, 
and the berries will be small, of poor quality 
and inferior in every way. When grown as 
it should be, the Cuthbert raspberry is large, 
fine colored and firm. It is the best flavored 
red raspberry and in great demand among 
consumers. There is no variety of fruit of 
any kind more sure of a ready market than 
Cuthbert red raspberries. It ripens midsea¬ 
son and continues late. Very productive. 
Columbian—The most popular of well 
known purple raspberries. It is a strong, 
healthy grower, sometimes making canes 1*4 
inches in diameter. The canes are distin¬ 
guished by the yellowish color and are very 
thorny. It is fine for home use and for com¬ 
mon market where large quantities of rasp¬ 
berries are wanted at a fair price, they can 
be grown so cheaply. The fruit is very large, 
meaty and firm, but picks rather hard unless 
the patch is well cultivated and the fruit well 
ripened. Even then it will crumble some. Its 
dull red color is overlooked when the house¬ 
wife learns that they can be 
purchased for a few cents a 
quart less than real 
red raspberries. They 
are s o enormously 
productive 
that the 
grower can well afford to sell them at a mod¬ 
erate price. When canned they are of ex¬ 
cellent flavor. The Columbian is a great; 
money maker. 
Golden Queen—A yellow variety of great 
merit; similar in habit, quality and size to 
Ciithbert. Should be in every home garden. 
The King—Mr. Charles E. Chapman, of 
Connecticut, the raspberry specialist, says the 
King raspberry is the earliest, the brightest 
in color, the firmest, the most productive and 
the hardiest red raspberry in cultivation. It 
ripens here in Connecticut before strawber¬ 
ries are gone and the fruiting season con¬ 
tinues for a month. Mr. Chapman says he is 
familiar with every variety of raspberry in 
cultivation, red and black, grown commer¬ 
cially in the United States, and has discarded 
all except King in red and Plum Farmer in 
black. He says King will turn more money 
per acre than any other variety of raspberry 
in cultivation. He has had an acre of King 
bring an income of $500.00 per acre. 
Loudon—The superior points of this excel¬ 
lent red raspberry are vigor of growth, large 
fruit; beautiful rich crimson color; good qual¬ 
ity and marvelous productiveness and hardi¬ 
ness. Season medium to late. 
Miller’s Red—-Very early. Berries bright 
red, large and hold their size to the end of 
the season. Very firm, hence valuable to ship 
to distant market. 
St. Regis —Red. This promises to be the 
most valuable addition to the list of red rasp¬ 
berries. It succeeds upon all soils, whether 
light and sandy or heavy clay, and the canes 
are absolutely hardy al¬ 
ways and everywhere. 
The canes are of a 
stalky, strong growth 
with a great abun¬ 
dance o f healthy, 
Columbian 
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