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THE PLANSBUEGH & POTTER CO. CATALOGUE. 
strong points of merit it stands unequaled and alone. A variety that is at once 
perfectly healthy in root and foliage, and hardy, coming through our most severe 
winters in prime condition; a strong, “not tall and slender,” but a sturdy 
grower, throwing out many laterals and fruiting to the tips and from every 
lateral, a sight to see. An immense cropper, by far outyielding any red raspberry 
we have ever known while the fruit is extraordinary large and handsome, firm 
and of the highest quality. 
We stated in our catalogue last year that it was a seedling found growing 
on the farm of Amos Garretson, of Indiana. Some early correspondence got mis¬ 
laid or lost, and we got this wrong; and soon after our catalogue was out we re¬ 
ceived a letter from a customer in Indiana, in part as follows: 
Please send your catalogue to Mr. Eaton. He Is the man that grows those big 
red raspberries. He told me that he started with one plant that he found growing In 
his orchard. Write to him and he will tell you all about it. They are the winners in 
the market. When the Eaton berries come to town we all have to stand back. Look 
for my order soon. Yours truly, 
M. H. CRULL. 
We forwarded this letter to Mr. Garretson who replied: 
I feel quite sure I previously stated this contract between Mr. Eaton and myself. 
In the first place I bought a few plants of him. They did so wonderfluly well that I 
went back the next year in bearing time with another party, and bought more plants 
and the right to introduce it. He desiring me to name them Eaton, which I did. He 
had been calling them Eaton Seedling. Prof. John Craig suggested dropping the word 
seedling, and I think you are familiar with what has followed. The credit of discovery 
belongs to M jr. Eaton, "a one-armed soldier of the Civil war," who felt himself unequal 
to its proper introduction. 
Plants of this new and valuable variety were received from Mr. Garretson in 
April, 1902. To give them the severest test possible, we set them on about the 
poorest ground we had, a stony hill alongside the railroad that never had or has 
been manured or fertilized in any way. The plants have not been cultivated 
since 1902, or mulched, but allowed to do what they would without further at¬ 
tention except to pick the fruit each season. Denied the advantages of even or¬ 
dinary cultivation it still outranks anything in red raspberries we have ever 
seen or heard of. We think it not too much to say, after fruiting it three years 
(now four years, including the first season on the spring set plants) that it is 
without a doubt the finest red raspberry in existence, and destined to supercede 
all others for commercial growing and heavy planting in the future. 
The fruit is larger than the Loudon, a deeper richer red when fully ripe, 
and of the most sprightly exquisite flavor possible to imagine, fresh or canned. 
The firmest and the handsomest of all varieties, and the most productive. It 
will outyield the Loudon two to one as we have grown it, before the Loudon de¬ 
veloped root gall and we plowed them up. 
The Eaton is not an untried novelty for spectacular introduction merely, but 
has a record, as will be plainly seen by what will follow. More than this, we 
know it too. We are proud to be introducers of so distinct nad valuable a 
berry. We have proved it well before we offered it, and we like it better every 
year. At first we tried to pick them before fully ripe, when bright red. They 
were so large and fine, but they pulled off hard and crumbled more or less. After 
that we picked only those that were a deeper red, still more beautiful and fully 
ripe, and they came off easily and whole and firm. When ripe to pick they hang 
on well and do not drop with every touch, but can be picked more rapidly and at 
