Immense New Boysenberry 
GET A PARTNER 
If you live in a 
city ox- happen to 
be a fruit dealer 
and have a little 
money to spare 
why not make the 
acquaintance o f 
some nearby far¬ 
mer and grow 
Boysenberries on 
shares. It will be 
a pleasant diver¬ 
sion and you can 
make some mon¬ 
ey- 
If you live in the 
country and have 
the land and the 
ability t o raise 
these berries, but 
not the necessary 
money to buy the 
plants, why not 
make the ac- 
q u a in t a nee of 
some fruit dealer 
or other indivi¬ 
dual in a nearby 
city who will be 
glad to put some 
money in a part¬ 
nership. 
ORIGIN 
The Boysenberry 
was d e v e 1 oped 
from three black- 
fa e r r i e s of un¬ 
known o r ig i n, 
Cuthbert rasp¬ 
berry, and Iogan- 
berry. All o f 
these berries are 
hardy and while 
we have only had 
the Boysenberry 
for two winters, 
our experiments 
have indicated 
that it is just as 
hardy as its par¬ 
ents. 
Cold Sections 
B o y s e n b erries 
have been expos¬ 
ed to 17° below 
zero during the 
past winter and 
were not killed, 
while other bram¬ 
bles around them 
were completely 
frozen. See 
Country Gentle¬ 
man article page 
39, August num¬ 
ber “The Boysen¬ 
berry Proves 
Hardy.” 
Facts Relative To the Sensational New Boysenberry 
CURIOSITY 
In California w’here the Boysenberry 
has been offered for sale for two sum¬ 
mers, had you been passing the fields of 
those lucky growers who had them, when 
they were ripe, you would have thought 
they were holding an old time camp 
meeting. Hundreds of people came from 
many miles around in order to see, taste, 
and purchase this marvelous berry right 
in the fields at two to three times higher 
price than that for which other vineber- 
ries were selling. 
FRUIT KILLED. 
During the past year we have had an 
extremely cold winter followed by an in¬ 
tensively hot summer, with a killing 
drought in many sections of our country. 
Many fruit trees and fruit bearing vines 
have been completely destroyed. There¬ 
fore, there will be large plantings of new 
fruit to take their place. It is very doubt¬ 
ful if you could find anything to equal 
the Boysenberry to take the place of lost 
trees and vines that so quickly will give 
you a profit. In California young or¬ 
chards of all kinds are being interset 
with Boysenberries. It is suggested that 
you give this some thought. 
TRELLIS. 
Vines grow much better if left on the 
ground and merely trained in straight 
rows. This does not give the sun an op¬ 
portunity to burn your vines nor the 
wind a chance to break them to pieces. 
Do not put vines on trellis until they 
commence to bud or about February or 
March, just before they start to set your 
crop. Trellis should consist of three 
wires, No. 14 gauge, 20 inches apart. 
TRUE TO NAME 
We specialize on Boysenberry plants and have 
available far more plants than any other grower. 
The fact is, east of the Rocky Mountains, we 
have 90of all plants. 
Our plants are growing in eighteen carefully 
selected plantings from Virginia to Oregon. These 
plantings have all been carefully inspected by 
state and federal authorities and have been pro¬ 
nounced clean. The stock was shipped from the 
original acreage. We have plants either in your 
state or in a neighboring state and they will 
reach you in perfect growing condition. 
All business is done through the Mentone of¬ 
fice, but you can reach us by air mail even from 
the Atlantic coast within twenty-four hours. 
If you prefer we will ship your plants direct 
from the original acreage. 
FERTILIZATION. 
There is nothing better for fertilization than 
barnyard or chicken manure. However, you may 
carefully use any kind of fertilizer that is high 
in nitrogen. 
RETAIL PRICE LIST 
j No. 1 strong tip rooted Boysenberry plants s 
j prepaid to any express or post office in the ? 
{ United States. Plants 25c each; 10—$2.00; j 
i 100—$12.00; 1000—$100.00; 5 at 10 rate; 50 i 
at 100 rate; 500 at 1000 rate. If you desire 
| to plant more than 1000 consult us relative | 
| to price and terms. Please send check with j 
reservation for at least !4 of the total. It 
I is understood that the balance is to be paid I 
| before shipment. We absolutely guarantee j 
| our plants to be true to name and to be so 
j packed that they will reach you in good j 
| growing condition. | 
CULTURE. 
If you will set out Boysenberry plants 
very early you may have a few sample 
berries the first season, but your big crop 
will come the following summer. 
Where plants are to be irrigated they 
may be planted 6 by 6 but we advise 
more room to be allowed where irriga¬ 
tion is not practiced. 
Boysenberries should be treated just 
like any other bramble and will do well 
in almost any soil, either heavy or light 
providing it is not alkaline, and is fertil¬ 
ized and receives sufficient moisture. 
CULTIVATION. 
Berry vines are shallow rooted. There¬ 
fore, deep and frequent cultivation mere¬ 
ly tears to nieces the roots which cost 
good money to develop. It has been found 
that about the only cultivation necessary, 
to most soil, is to remove weeds. 
RESERVE NOW. 
Boysenberry plants are now ready for 
shipment. Growers in California and 
along the southern border to Florida 
should plant immediately. Where ground 
freezes and continual rains can be ex¬ 
pected planting should not start until 
the middle of February and continue 
through May, but the earlier planted the 
better. 
Not 5% of our population has seen or 
tasted this berry, yet we have already 
sold more plants this season than we 
sold during the entire past season and 
we would earnestly advise you to send 
us a part payment immediately and re¬ 
serve plants to be shipped when you 
want them. AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT 
RflNCHO VERDflD, Mentone, California 
