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less expense than any sort we know, chiefly because they are so large and so 
many of them. To use a home-like term, we are going in for this new berry 
for fruit to ship, for the firmest, biggest, handsomest, best quality red raspber¬ 
ry on the city market. 
Red raspberries are in great demand. Note the prices in the cities for the 
past few years. The larger markets never have been well supplied, and less so 
of late than formerly, because of root gall and the destruction of many large 
plantations. The country needs a great commercial berry that is proof against 
this weakness; that is hardy and productive, large and handsome; that will 
hang upon the bushes longer after ripe, firm to ship, and with a longer fruiting 
season. For canning or for jam the Eaton is unequaled. The Eaton brand would 
bring fancy prices in the cities. 
Those who hold red raspberries as finest fruit, but do not grow them for 
market, because accustomed to regard them as moderate producers, compared 
with strawberries, will be surprised at the great productiveness of this new 
variety, and more so as the plants get well established and the crop increases 
year by year. They begin to ripen at the close of the strawberry season, among 
the first, but continue to bear fine fruit until all other red raspberries are done. 
Eaton Awarded Large Bronze Medal at the 
Pan-American Exposi tion. 
A Silver Medal for Eaton at the St. Louis World’s Fair. 
Dear Sirs: — I send you a few letters which please return. The Eaton began to 
ripen Just at the close of strawberries, June 19, and our last picking was August 10 
(seven weeks and two days).. They were much larger and more pro/luctive than 
Loudon, firm and of high quality. We sold at our village market at 10 cents per pint. 
Prof. Green, of the Ohio Experiment Station was here to see them while in fruit 
and he advised me to exhibit them at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. You 
can tell what he thinks of them by what he wants now. The last letter from Virginia 
comes voluntarily. Note that Prof. John Craig, of Iowa, speaks in high terms of the 
Eaton for quality, yield and size, the largest of 75 varieties at the Agricultural College, 
etc., but reports them a little crumbly. This is when he tries to pick them before 
fully ripe. When ripe to pick they are firm and solid and do not crumble. The only 
fault I could find with them is this: the berries are so very large they have to turn 
down before fully ripe, as the stems cannot support the weight, so that if there should 
come a long rainy spell at ripening the berries would get more or less watersoaked, If 
left to fully ripen on the bush, but the berries are so fine In color before fully ripe, 
that they may be clipped at such a time and allowed to finish ripening in the box and 
sold like strawberries with the hull and core. If you wish to ship a long distance 
(New York or Boston) clip the stem close to the berry when full size and bright 
scarlet red. They are solid and will not leave vhe core, but ripen up beautifully and 
be in perfect condition three to four days later. 
This is the way I sent them to the Pan-American Exposition at Burfalo. I sent 
♦hem to Prof. H. E. VanDeman to exhibit and he pronounced them fine. I believe 
I told you I received a large bronze medal for the exhibit. Yours for the good that 
we can do. AMOS GARRETSON. 
Indiana, July 9, 1904. 
Gentlemen: — We are advertising you pretty extensively at the World’s Fair with 
Eaton cards with your address as the introducers, also a large card with fancy hand 
painted fruit as well as by the fruit itself. Have made four shipments to the exhi¬ 
bition so far and Intend to send three times per week until the middle of August. We 
are selling 10 to 15 crates per day at 10 cents per pint box. To say they are fine is 
onlv to say what everyone says. Please state in your catalogue that we will not sell plants 
so that no one will write to us for them, Yours truly, 
AMOS GARRETSON. 
