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pearance and immense productive¬ 
ness. It is fairly firm, but not so firm 
as Uncle Jim or Dunlap and it is 
quite tart. It has a long fruiting sea¬ 
son and the selling qualities, bringing 
top prices, and some people prefer 
tart berries as does our customer 
whose letter we will copy in full since 
it refers to a new raspberry we are 
growing here—these three varieties 
especially and his crop in general. 
Pendleton, Ind., July 20, 1903. 
Friend F.:—The Indiana State Hor¬ 
ticulture Society hold their summer 
meeting near Pendleton August 4 and 
5. I will be very glad to have you 
come and attend the meeting, then 
we can talk berry, especially the Ea¬ 
ton red raspberry. I expect to be pre¬ 
pared to show the finest red raspber¬ 
ry at St. Louis next year that has 
ever been seen or heard of. I am de¬ 
termined to make them create a sen¬ 
sation in the berry world. We had 
a good crop of strawberries, 500 
bushels sold at good prices, iocts. 
being the lowest I sold my best ber¬ 
ries at. What sorts djd the best with 
you? I think so much of the Marie 
that I will write a few lines to ex¬ 
press myself. 
* * * 
Marie, Marie, beautiful Marie, 
Just as tart as she can be. 
With lots of sugar and plenty of 
cream, 
Makes her most delicious seem. 
She comes very near the first 
Is determined to stay until th$ last. 
She is as handsome as she can be, 
Oh beautiful, delicious, tart Marie. 
She can flavor more sugar and cream 
Than any strawberry so to seem; 
She gives plenty of runners strong 
and stout, 
And will head the list, if you don’t 
look out. 
Well, now, as for the Uncle Jim, 
The other fellow may have him; 
He is large and sweet and good, 
But I want it understood, 
Of all the berries that I see 
Give me beautiful, luscious, tart Ma¬ 
rie 
It seems that beautiful tart Marie 
Must have a partner, so you see 
To set by her side I take Dunlap, 
For he is sure to fill the gap. 
Then by the way, if you don’t care, 
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He has berries to sell and berries to 
spare, 
Berries red and berries good, 
And so it shall be understood, 
That Sister Marie takes a partner 
free, 
So she says to me, Dunlap is the best 
I see. 
Yours truly, A. G. 
* * * 
There are other new varieties, and 
old ones, too, that are well deserving 
of especial mention here, but we will 
tell you about them elsewhere. We 
have had more than the usual inquiry 
—letters from all sections—about va¬ 
rieties, our crop, etc., since the fruit¬ 
ing season, and it is largely from 
these letters which otten contain val¬ 
uable information that we are able to 
keep in closer touch with all of you 
and better able to advise new begin¬ 
ners in these different sections, what 
to plant, etc. We want to emphasize 
the fact that it pays to mulch for 
fruit, in finer, cleaner berries, as any 
one may know at fruiting who digs 
among the unmulched rows for 
plants. Our plants are all grown for 
hardiness and vine vigor as well as 
fruiting vigor, but without irrigation 
or petting of any description. Our 
rows were all well set with plants 
and bore as well last year where left 
unmulched, but there were sandy ber¬ 
ries when it rained and some that 
rotted where they lay upon the 
ground, but not among the Dunlap. 
In these broad matted rows each plant 
bore its burden more often on single 
stem supported upright by the other 
plants while isolated plants of these 
that had been left in digging, or part¬ 
ly covered with soil and overlooked 
grew several stems and produced 
more fruit than it would have done 
in a thickly matted row. 
There is a great and growing inter¬ 
est everywhere, especially in new and 
improved varieties, and progress is 
the watchword all along the line; 
but there is one thing that we want 
to speak about to new beginners: 
Many have the idea that summer is 
the best time to set plants, but there 
is only one best time and that is in 
the spring. In a walk over our fields at 
fruiting time one may see on every 
hand plants that had been thrown 
away as culls when digging in the 
spring, but which had taken root 
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