THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
433 
THE ROYAL PURPLE RASPBERRY 
By Wick Hathaway, Madison, Ohio. 
This recently introduced new Royal Purple raspberry 
has proved on my grounds, to have surpassed all other 
purple varieties as the standard of its class. 
The black raspberry has always been more extensively 
grown throughout the country than any other kind. 
First principally because of the firmness of the fruit 
for shipment—and second, because of that fact, many 
localities never tried out any other colored varieties— 
and the growers did not—and many yet do not consider 
any other sorts worth growing. As hardiness of plant, 
flavor, firmness and yield of crop is the issue sought in 
any variety of berry, we have found it combined in the 
Royal Purple, which at once places it at the top over all 
purples, and equals the black varieties in “standing up” 
for shipment. 
It is a wonderfully vigorous plant grower, producing 
A block of Hydrangea P. G., containing 3000 3 yr. large bushy plants at the Westminster Nurseries, Westminster, 
Md. J. E. Stoner, Proprietor. 
strong canes which often stand to seven or eight feet 
high, and are almost thornless, a most desirable feature. 
The young canes are a pea green color, gradually turn¬ 
ing to a mahogany or dark cherry color when the wood 
has ripened. 
When pruned during summer growth—say in June, 
the canes will produce an abundance of laterals before 
fall, which explains how it is possible for the immense 
crops ol berries it is capable of producing the following 
season. 
In shape and size the berries resemble more those of 
the black than of any of the several other varieties of 
purple kinds, though the color of the berries when fully 
ripe, is like that of the Columbian. Right here, it may 
be well to mention that the berries are a bright red be¬ 
fore turning purple and will pick without crumbling— 
though they will color up more or less to the ripened 
purple color if left a day or so before using. Mr. L. J. 
Farmer, I believe introduced it and claims 'that the 
first plant of the Royal Purple raspberry was found 
growing on a farm in Indiana and attracted notice by the 
color of the berries and big crop the plant bore. The at- 
