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BARGAIN PRICE LIST OP BERRY PLANTS, Etc. 
SPECIAL UNHEARD-OF BARGAINS-(Contmued) 
homo, it often doubles the yield of the Rural New 
Vorker and other potatoes of that class. It is 
jfood to eat as soon as dus in the fall, unlike 
other potatoes. It continues to be good to eat 
and is the finest (juality of potato that I have 
ever tasted. It re^iulres a long season to grow in 
and if planted in June, the vines will generally 
get frosted before they mature. Price. 75c per 
pk.; bushel. 52; 10 bushels. $15. Medium sized 
tuber, 16c; large tuber. 25c. 
THE CARRIE GOOSEBERRY. 
This new variety originated in Minnesota and 
is. we believe, the best variety for health, yield 
and profit, now l)efore the public. We have had 
It growing several years and cannot say too much 
in its favor. It is a red gooseberry, larger and 
deeper red than the Houghton. A leading grower 
of Minnesota writes of it as follows: “I feel that 
I cannot be too strong in the praise of this won¬ 
derful new gooseberry. I have tried it out to 
my own satisfaction and find it everything that 
is claimed by the originator. The plants are of 
upright nature and grow very fast, coming into 
bearing the year after setting, which has not 
occurred in my experience in any other variety. 
My plants raised fruit enough the second year, 
after setting, to more than pay for them. They 
seem to be immune from disease, as 1 have them 
near other varieties with mildew, but the Carrie 
AGENTS FOR BERRY PLANTS. 
We employ no salaried agents to sell 
Berry Plants or other goods for us, and 
if any person represents himself as such 
you must have nothing to do with him, if 
he is a stranger or an unreliable person. 
We have no objection to people taking 
orders for us. but they must do it on their 
own responsibility. To reliable parties who 
will go among their friends and neighbors 
to solicit orders for plants, we will give our 
best and lowest rates for large (luantity 
shipments. We do not and cannot, how¬ 
ever, allow a certain commission below 
catalogue rates. Our prices are too low to 
admit of this. If you order goods of us at 
lowest 1000 rates and sell out to your cus¬ 
tomers at dozen and 100 rates, it makes a 
pretty fair commission. It is sometimes 
possible, when we have a surplus, to quote 
even lower prices than are listed here, on 
large orders. Better write us. 
THE BLACK DIAMOND BLACKBERRY. * 
Description by a Prominent Hew Jersey Fruit 
Grower. 
This was originated several years ago by Geo. 
H. Biepe, from the seed of the old Evergreen, a 
variety of the cut leaf class of blackberries. The 
plants are very vigorous and stocky, thus enab¬ 
ling them to carry to maturity their 
immense loads of perfect fruit. The 
foliage remains, remarkably green until 
late in autumn. It is also free from 
rust and is not troubled with borers or 
rose scale. 
The fruit is jet black, and firm, and 
will not soften on the bush or after it 
has been picked. It has an exceptionally 
fine flavor, spicy and melting. The berry 
is about the size of the TCrie or Ohmer. 
an abundant bearer, frequently perfect¬ 
ing as many as 2,000 berries on one 
vine, and sometimes nine quarts have 
been gathered from one plant. 
They are easily harvested. The 
berries hang in large drooping clusters, 
well elevated above the bush, and in 
gathering the fruit the pickers do not 
come in contact with the thorns as is 
tlie case with other varieties. The 
plants grow to considerable size and 
form hedge-like rows, but no clusters 
of fruit are hedged in; all are easily 
gathered from tlie outside of the bush. 
In shipping qualities, it Is far above 
all others. The lilack Diamond can be 
shipped long distances, being a hard, jet 
black berry that will remain firm and 
glossy for a week after picking. This 
berry always finds a ready market, as 
its season is later than that of any 
other Blackberry, and, therefore, always 
sells at the highest prices obtainable 
for such fine fruit. Its season in New 
Jersey commences August 1st, and con¬ 
tinues to September 1st. 
The Black Diamond is very easily 
grown, adapted as it is to a great variety 
of soils. It will thrive well on poor 
!ias never mildewed with me yet. They are prac¬ 
tically thornless.” Another leading nurseryman 
vrites: “Special attention is called to the Carrie 
' fooseherry, which we believe, all things con¬ 
sidered, is one of the best varieties for northern 
• ulture that has ever been put on the market. 
It is vigorous, hardy and very productive. It 
ha:< a very thin skin and yet is firm and a good 
shipper. Free from mildew entirely. Far more 
prolific and successful in this section than other 
varieties.” Medium sized plants, 20c each; dozen, 
$2; 100, $10. 
sandy soil and yield heavy crops where nothing 
else will grow. The young canes droop to the 
ground, dewberry-like, and are tied to three feet 
stakes or wires. Culture is the same as for other 
blackberries. 
Most blackberries decline in productiveness 
after the fourth or fifth year. The Black Diamond 
will bear well for 20 years. I have a field of 
Black Diamonds now in Its ninth year, bearing 
its best crop thus far, and all strong healthy 
vines. Price. 40c each; dozen, $2; 25 for $3.50; 
100, $10; 1000, $50. 
