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veloped as perfect fruit, while accross the field, in thinly matted rows the Parker 
Earles were like chuncks of pudding, blunt on the ends, thick wedge shaped 
highly colored like they used to grow, before we bred vine vigor out and fruiting 
vigor in, supposing that this last was true, but we are not breeding certain sorts 
in that direction now. A truly successful variety must possess vigor of vine and 
fruiting vigor in like degree with health and hardiness, such is the Senator Dun¬ 
lap. No other variety ever won its way so quickly, or is so universally admired 
today by growers, dealers and consumers, a prize indeed, and as such we would 
give it credit, whether old or new, or whether the plants sold at $3 per 1,000 or 
$3 per dozen. From the first we were greatly pleased with it, but it seems to do 
better and we like it better every year. It has always yielded heavily and the 
fruit commands the highest prices paid. A canner and a table berry unsurpassed, 
an all around good variety for the home garden or the city fancy trade, for the 
careless grower or for the most exacting. We would prefer a strong sandy loam 
for fruiting or to grow best plants for the trade, but we have grown it in several 
different places each season for the past four years and on different soils, and it 
always is reliable, most satisfying and exceedingly profitable. 
There are other strawberries worthy of especial mention here, but we want 
to tell our friends about a new red raspberry that is, without doubt, the most 
valuable variety in existence, a good thing to have and hold, as growers of choice 
fruit, and more especially as it is not a variety that suckers as freely as do most 
sorts, but it is too good a thing to deny our friends until we have a large stock. 
The Eaton Red Raspberry originated with one of our customers in Indiana, 
who sent us plants for trial, and we have now fruited it three years. The canes 
and foliage are a picture of vigorous healthy growth. The fruit is larger and 
handsomer than the i^ouden, of a deeper, richer red color, much more abundant 
of the finest quality, and the plants are entirely free from root-gall that has 
driven that otherwise good variety almost out of existence. The canes came 
through the past servere winter entirely uninjured, a sufficient test for hardiness, 
and though of extra strong and robust growth were bent low with the load of 
fruit which commenced to ripen a few days later than the Early King and con¬ 
tinued bearing on the new canes in the hill as well as the fruiting canes (a 
regular feature with this variety) until late in the season, after all other red and 
cap varieties were done. We had about 150 of the original plants to fruit, and 
sold the berries from our market wagon, keeping no account. We will not 
venture an estimate of the yield per acre, but it would have been immense. They 
were in an out of the way place,, a stony hill alongside of the railroad, about the 
poorest ground we had and received no cultivation the last two years whatever. 
We have never seen such large and handsome berries or such a load of fruit oi> 
any variety. We paid 50 cents for our first plant of the Early King red rasp¬ 
berry when introduced, and it would have been a good investment at many timey 
the price, it has made good profits for the growers, but we predict still greater 
profits with the coming Eaton, and expect to see it grown hereafter “as soon as 
it becomes well known and sufficiently disseminated” more largely throughout 
this section than all other red varieties combined. 
We have arranged with the originator to control the whole supply of plants. 
We are proud to be the introducers of so valuable a variety and will be glad tc* 
see it making money for our customers in every section as soon as possible. 
A word to the wise.—There is money in red raspberries for the city trade. 
The markets are never half supplied, and the fruit commands high prices, with 
the passing of the Louden and certain other sorts that have developed root-gall 
and are rapidly dying out all over the country there is need of a great commercial 
berry that is proof against this weekness. We believe we have it in the Eaton. 
Get a start with this new berry now, it will be some time before the price of 
plants is very much reduced. 
_ x , Ottawa Co., Michigan, Oct. 11, 1904. 
Gentlemen: I just telephoned you in regard to the 5,000 strawberry plants 
you sent me. Your plants are just fine. Now I want you to send me 7,000 more 
right away. I enclose $10. Send C. O. D. for balance. Yours, 
J. Jewett. 
_ Bowstring, Minn., July 11, 1904. 
Gentlemen:—Please send me strawberry plants for the enclosed. Your selec¬ 
tion of sorts you think will do best here. The varieties I got of you last year 
are simply grand. Great big berries and lots of them, but I have moved to 
another farm. ' I want some plants now, if it is late, and will get some more 
next spring. Respectfully, 
Mrs. Robt. Christie. 
_ . Charlevoix Co., Michigan, April 26, 1904. 
i . m?, received the plants in good shape, couldn’t find a poor one in the 
lot. rhanks for the numerous extras. I never received better treatment from 
any firm and I shall remember to remember you. Sincerely yours, 
E. H. Newman. 
