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5,000 quarts to the acre at one picking. 
It is fine for home use and for common 
markets 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 cul¬ 
tivated and the fruit well ripened. Even 
then it will crumble some. Its dull red 
color is overlooked when the housewife 
learns that they can be purchased for a 
few cents a quart less than real red 
raspberries. They are so enormously 
productive that the grower can well 
afford to sell them at a moderate price. 
When canned they are of excellent 
Most Everybody. 
mercury has gone 35% below zero. 
The canes arc model growers, very vig¬ 
orous and healthy, upright in growth. 
The color of the bark is a deep rich 
red, unlike Columbian or Schaffer, and 
the canes are smooth except near the 
roots. Pickers can go through these 
bushes and gather the fruit without tear¬ 
ing clothes or scratching their skin. The 
berries are large, purple in color, very 
firm, good keepers and shippers. They 
pick easily from the bushes and can be 
gathered before fully ripe if wanted, 
when the color is more attractive. It is 
so firm that they can be handled and 
shipped in quart baskets. They do not 
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flavor. The Columbian is a great money 
maker. Doz., 50c; 100, $1.50; 1000, $10. 
Schaffer's Colossal, Haymaker, 
Cardinal. — Doz., 50c; 100, $2; 1000, 
$15.00. 
Royal Purple. — This variety is the 
greatest advance yet made in Purple 
raspberries. What I think of it is best 
expressed by the fact that I pay $1,000 
for the original stock of plants. It orig¬ 
inated in Indiana by an old nurseryman 
with years of experience who says it 
surpasses everything he has ever seen in 
the raspberry line. The original bush 
stands in a stiff blue grass sod and has 
borne 14 successive large crops and 
some of the time in the winters the 
crumble when picked and present a bet¬ 
ter appearance in the basket than other 
purple raspberries. One strong point 
in their favor is their season of ripen¬ 
ing. With us they were fully two weeks 
later than Columbian in ripening the bulk 
of the crop, although they were ripe 
fully as early to start with as that vari¬ 
ety. The past season we were able to 
get 2c per quart above other purple rasp¬ 
berries. It is unquestionably the most 
valuable purple raspberry and if I were 
confined to one variety of raspberry of 
any kind, it would be Royal Purple. We 
have fruited it three seasons. Price of 
plants, 30c each; 4 for $1.00; doz., $2; 
100, $10; 1000, $75. 
