BUSH STRAWBERRY 
Description By Originator — Chas. T. Davis 
We have a new plant to offer to our customers this 
season. It is refered to as the BUSH strawberry. This 
plant grows to a height of about 18 to 24 inches, and 
produces well. The big advantage of the Bush berries is 
that the plants do not have to be moved every three 
years. The BUSH berries can grow approximately 5 years 
in one place. They have been known to yield as much as 
one gallon of berries per bush, where they have been fer- 
tilized and well cared for. 
PRICES 
12 25 
50 100 
$1.50 $2.50 $5.00 
$10.00 
Method of Setting Plants 
A trowl, spade or hoe are the tools most often used 
in setting plants, and a good job can be done with them. 
It is important to have the roots straight down. Spread- 
ing them might help a little but not much. The crown 
must be held just at the surface of the ground so that 
when the soil is packed back against the roots with the 
hand or foot, the bud will not be covered nor the roots 
exposed. 
Just Right 
Too Shallow 
Cultivation 
The plants should be cultivated and hoed soon after 
they have started growth after being set out. It is 
important at the first hoeing to uncover the buds of any 
plants that may have been planted too deep. If this is 
not done early plants will die as a result. Cultivate often 
enough to keep the surface of the ground from becoming 
crusted and to keep down grass and weeds. It is not 
necessary to practice deep cultivation. A depth of 1 to 
114 inches is deep enough for the hoe or perhaps slightly 
deeper with the culaivator. Remember that one cultiva- 
tion made in time is much more helpful than two made 
after grass and weeds become bad. Frequent hoeing and 
plowing make larger, stronger fruiting beds and a better 
crop of berries. 
Vine Berries 
~THORNLESS BOYSENBERRY 
Vines are free of thorns which means much in hand- 
ling. Ripens several days ahead of the thorny variety, 
which alone is a material advantage as it gets your 
berries on the market while the prices are higher, and 
that often means a big difference in your profit. You 
can handle these canes with your bare hands and enjoy 
picking the large attractive fruit. 
DEWBERRY - BLACKBERRY 
We are offering a new Dewberry - Blackberry cross 
that is most outstanding in its earliness, size and vigor. 
There are two strains of the cross. One which ripens 
right in behind the strawberry season, another which 
comes about 7 to 10 days later. The first of the berries 
is calledyEarli-Ness and has a value largely for the fresh 
market. The next one known as\Big-Ness is extremely 
large and attractive in appearance and is the best berry 
that we have found for quick freezing. The multiplica- 
tion is similar to that of the young and boysenberry. In 
addition to the commercial angle of this berry, it has 
great possibilities for special home garden sales at a 
fancy price. We have only a very limited amount of 
these plants for sale. 
Histony of the 
‘TREE EVERBEARING 
BLACKBERRY 
(The following description of this unusual plant has 
been furnished us by the originator.) 
This new berry came into our possession as a seed- 
ling some seven years ago. After years of painstaking 
efforts, the undesirable plants have been taken out, now 
having a variety that comes true and exactly alike. 
Due to the nature of their growth and over the long 
period of ripening, we have named it TREE EVER- 
BEARING BLACKBERRY. It grows in any soil or 
climate, has stood twenty below zero without any injury. 
Berries are round, very large extra sweet, yet 
enough acid for jams and jellies. An excellent keeper, 
has to be picked only once a week. Plants are very 
thorny, but berries grow on a long fruit stem in clusters 
of seven to thirty berries. Ninety per cent of the fruit 
extending above the thorns. There being no berries on 
the market when they ripen, therefore its possibilities 
are unlimited as a commercial berry. 
Another feature why people prefer it: they grow up 
off the ground, ninety-five per cent are free from dirt 
regardless of the weather. 
Rain must be in abundance or it must be planted 
where it can be watered. The undreamed of feature of 
this berry is that people in our towns and cities who have 
been deprived of fresh fruits may now grow all the 
berries they can use for pies, jams, and jellies from six 
plants in their yard or small garden, taking no more 
care of them than a common shrub. From a two-year- 
old plant we have gathered three gallons or 24 pounds. 
Three-year-old plants have broken all records with a 
yield of 6 gallons of fruit from one plant. 
Waller Brothers do not hesitate to recommend these 
plants as an excellent berry, as we fruited some of them 
the past four seasons with very satisfactory results. 
THE ABOVE PICTURE SHOWS OUR IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN OPERATION. 
