Tills picture is just part of one Boyseuberry vine. IiOo!k bow it is loaded, and, remember, tbese are gfreat bigf berries one incli 
tbrougrb and 1^ inches long! Can you imagine how much fruit you will get from a row in your garden, or how many crates of 
top-price berries an acre will produce? Let us tell you about it! 
BOYSBNBBBBY. 
(Average Size) 
BOYSENBERRIES 
ARE 
MONEY MAKERS 
THE BEST EVER 
Boysenberry — For ten years, ever 
since we the first Youngberry 
plants t"' we have been 
bringing in new varieties from all 
over the United States, and some 
from foreign countries, and trying 
them out here, always with the hope 
of finding an outstanding new variety 
for ourselves and our customers. The 
Youngberry was such a berry, and those who 
started eight or nine years ago with them have 
made money; of course, the biggest returns came 
during the first few years, while the demand was 
greater than the supply of fruit. Unless a new 
variety was superior to the kinds we were already 
growing we have discarded it without ever offer¬ 
ing it for sale and very, very few have passed this 
test. We have dug up and thrown away thousands 
of expensive bushes after caring for them until 
they came into bearing. 
In 1932 we secured the few plants there were 
in existence of a new berry that Mr. Rudolph 
Boysen, Superintendent of Parks of Anaheim, 
California, had propagated by crossing Logan¬ 
berries, raspberries, and blackberries. They grew 
wonderfully and when they fruited in 1933 we 
realized that we had the berry that we had been 
looking for all of these years. Since then we have 
increased our planting just as fast as we possibly 
could, for we saw a great future for this berry 
and we wanted to give it to our customers just 
as soon as possible. First planting stock was 
distributed in 1935. 
This very superior new variety has been named 
BOYSEN BERRY in honor of Mr. Boysen. 
Since trial plantings made in various parts of 
the world last year came through the past winter 
without damage, orders for Boysenberry plants 
are coming in from all parts of the United States 
and many foreign countries. Just as soon as 
growers in any district see this variety in pro¬ 
duction then there is an instant demand for plants 
from that district. Even though we have 30 acres 
in production and will have a fine supply of 
plants this season we hope you will order early 
as many of our plants are engaged before this 
catalog goes to press. 
BXFBBIBNCB HAS TAUGHT US 
We have been right here in the commercial 
berry business for 15 years, and are perhaps the 
largest individiual producer of berries in Cali¬ 
fornia; so we are very familiar with all phases 
of berry growing and marketing. The past three 
crops of Boysenberries were so much more profit¬ 
able than other kinds that our new plantings are 
being made practically all Boysen. 
The Boysenberry makes a vine very similar to 
the Youngberry, except that the cane growth is a 
little more vigorous and the leaves are darker 
green and the fruit spurs, that grow in the spring 
from each leaf joint on the main canes, average 
about two inches longer. These long fruit spurs 
project the berries well away from the vines and 
make picking very easy. There are one or two 
more berries per spur than with Youngberries and 
the berries are much larger and ripen more slowly. 
It should be grown on a trellis four or five feet 
high. The fruit starts ripening about ten days 
after Youngberries, which would be about June 
first in this locality on average seasons, and they 
last several weeks after Youngberries are gone, 
which means that we finish picking here in Aug¬ 
ust. It is absolutely the largest bush or vine 
berry that we have ever seen, and will average 
right through the season at least one-half larger 
than Youngberries. In color the fruit is identical 
with Youngberries, but it is more highly flavored 
and is less seedy. 
The Boysenberry is exceedingly prolific. 
Last summer our best field of Youngberries 
produced 3 Yz tons per acre. Our best fields of 
Blackberries 3% tons per acre. Our best Boysen- 
Ijerries produced 5% tons per acre. This greater 
yield for the Boysenberries was not on account 
of the berries being thicker on the bushes, but 
because each fruit is so much biggei-. Think wliat 
tills means in picking. 
MOBB CROP 
Last summer, our best field of Youngbei'ries 
produced 14,000 half-pound baskets per acre (7,000 
lbs.) Our best field of Macatawa blackberries 
produced 15,000 half-pound baskets per acre 
(7,500 lbs.) Our best field of Boysenberries made 
11,500 one-pound baskets per acre (11,500 lbs., 
nearly six tons). And SUCH BERRIES. They 
were beautiful, and just as good as they looked, 
and they sold readily at nearly double the price 
received for blackberries and Youngberries. 
MOBB MONBY 
The last berries were in greater demand and 
brought higher prices than the first. 
Back in prosperous times, and when Young¬ 
berries were new in California (1927), we sold 
.$1,520.00 from an acre of Youngberries, which 
record we have never since equalled, until our 
Boysenberries broke the record in 1934. Our re¬ 
turns per acre were $1,760.00 in 1934, and again 
in 1935, the returns from our best acre were 
$1,737.50. 
By 1936 our fields were much larger and re¬ 
turns for that year and for 193 7 ran from $900.00 
per acre wholesale, to as higli as $1600.00 per 
acre, for our best acres, retail. M’e now have 3 0 
acres of Boysenl)ei’i-ies. and are prei)aring land to 
plant 24 aci’es moi’e this season. 
BBSS COST 
The surest way to know the com¬ 
parative size of different varieties of 
berries, t iilfc 7" average basket, 
as they come in from the field, count 
the berries required to make a pound. 
This was done many times at our 
place last summer, by county agent, 
agricultural writers, interested berrv 
growers and ourselves. The average 
results were Boysenberries, 55 to 65 per pound; 
Youngberries, 90 to 100 per pound, and the dif¬ 
ferent varieties of blackberries averaged from 
120 to 160 per pound. From a recent publication 
by the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture describing the 
Boysenberry we find this statement, “Under fav¬ 
orable conditions 50 of the largest berries fill a 
quart basket.” Think what this means in cost of 
harvesting; in yield, and in salability! 
If you are in berry business for PROFIT be 
SURE to plant this berry, for of course you know 
that finer and larger fruit will bring you buyers 
and will command prices that will make money 
for you. 
If you are growing berries for your own use, a 
row of Boysenberries will be the pride of your 
garden, and there isn’t any use in our telling you 
how many berries they will make, nor how big 
they will be, for you won’t believe it, anyway, 
until you see them growing. 
YOUB OPPORTUNITY 
We know they are MONEYMAKERS because 
we are growing them. Last summer we had 
thirty acres of Boysenberries loaded just like 
this picture. At the height of the season we used 
125 pickers. We sold thousands of baskets per 
day from our retail stand; stores came to oui- 
field for these berries; we sent a great truck load 
of berries to market each night, and in addition 
to all this we canned 31,000 cans of Boysenberries 
and pressed 4000 gallons of juice. During the 
height of the season this field turned out more 
than $1000.00 worth of berries per day. Our pui-- 
pose in telling you all of this is not to brag. We 
do feel that we were very fortunate in being the 
first commercial grower to have this wonderful 
berry, and we are telling you about our success 
with the hope that you will become interested and 
that it will prove as much help to you as it has 
been to us. 
We aie planting more Boysenberries tJiis season 
because they sell for more per pound, because 
they produce more per acre, and because we can 
gi'ow them and pick them cheaper than other 
varieties. We liope that you will place your order 
while plants are still available, and tliat you 
will make youi- plans to plant this season, because 
best profits will be made while the variety is new, 
and you will not have much competition. 
