THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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New Everbearing Raspberry—“Erskine Park” 
By L. J. Farmer , Pulaski, N. Y. 
This new everbearing red raspberry originated at “Erskine 
Park,” the estate of George Westinghouse, the inventor of the air 
brake, etc., at Lee, Mass., several years ago. It was found near 
a Cuthbert raspberry plant and is undoubtedly a seedling of that 
famous variety. It attracted the attention of Mr. Edward J. Nor¬ 
man, who is superintendent of another estate in that locality and 
who secured some plants of it. Mr. Norman is really the one who 
is responsible for its introduction, as he tested out the variety and 
was the first to demonstrate what it would do. It is the practice of 
owners of these estates to come down from Boston at the end of 
the week to spend Sunday at their estates and there was much 
rivalry among the superintendents to get up the best dinner for 
the proprietors on this occasion. Mr. Norman has been able to 
out-class all his rivals, because he could serve these red rasp¬ 
berries in the fall, after the usual season for raspberries was 
done. The variety was kept in that locality in this way for sev¬ 
eral years. Finally a well-known landscape gardener and nursery¬ 
man who resides on the Hudson was attracted to the new berry 
while on a visit to the estate for the purpose of laying out new 
grounds, etc. He induced the gardener to give him 100 plants. 
These plants were sent to a well-known propagator of plants and 
it has been our good fortune to acquire all the new plants pro¬ 
pagated from these 100 plants during the past few years. 
Mr. George M. Darrow, of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture visited 
the estate of Mr. Westinghouse in 1916 
and writes as follows “I have seen the 
Erskine Park at Mr. Norman’s. It 
seems very hardy, having stood the win¬ 
ters in Eastern New York, Massa¬ 
chusetts and Southern Vermont without 
injury. The berries are very large for 
a red raspberry, tart, of good quality 
and conical in shape. In quality of fruit 
and quantity produced on young canes 
in the autumn, in places where I have 
seen it, the Erskine Park surpasses the 
St. Regis or Ranere.” 
Mr. Burt Baker, a large raspberry 
grower of Eastern N. Y., writes us that 
100 plants of the Erskine Park bore 
more fruit with him in the fall than 
several acres of St. Regis, under the 
same conditions of culture. 
Mr. Edward J, Norman writes us as 
follows under date of Lee, Mass., Aug. 
22, 1919: 
“Mr. L. J. Farmer, Dear Sir:—Yours 
concerning Erskine Park everbearing 
raspberry received. I find best treat¬ 
ment for fall fruit is to cut down canes 
after frost and to fruit on the new 
canes. This variety is a very heavy and 
continuous cropper, sending out bunches 
of fruit all down the canes, and a very 
heavy feeder, likes lots of manure; and 
a few good waterings (if it does not 
rain) during July helps out Your de¬ 
scription in pamphlet just received is 
about right, but a few errors should be 
corrected. This berry originated at Er¬ 
skine Park, the estate of George West¬ 
inghouse, the inventor of the air brake, 
not a Mr. Norton. Where his name crept 
in I do not know. Tell your customers 
not to expect big results until they get 
good strong canes. I am getting lots of 
berries now and expect to continue till 
hard frost.—Edward J. Norman.” 
Those who are familiar with the 
small fruit plant game know that the 
demand for everbearing strawberry and 
raspberry plants is almost unlimited, 
and growing from year to year. The 
St. Regis has been in great demand; 
and for the past year or so, the demand 
has been far beyond the supply, at ex¬ 
travagant prices. The fruit of the Er¬ 
skine Park is large, while the St. Regis 
is only medium; the plants are very 
strong and vigorous, the strongest 
growing cane of any red raspberry ever 
known. They are fully three times as 
productive as the St. Regis at its best. 
We have fruited the Erskine Park for 
two years and it simply out-classes the 
St. Regis as the Neverfair everbearing 
strawberry outclasses the old Pan 
American. We own all the available 
plants of the Erskine Park for sale, at 
wholesale, in the world. Our supply is 
ample to meet the demands. Fortunes 
were made in the Columbian and St. 
Regis raspberries. Now is the time to 
stock up with the new Erskine Park. 
Write for prices. Address L. J. Farmer, 
Pulaski, N, Y,—Advt, 
Drawing Showing L, J , Farmer's Youngest Daughter Picking Erskine Park in October 
