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    Illustrated and descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees, grape vines, small fruits, shrubs, plants, roses, etc. /
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    Resembles Gregg in many ways, but is much earlier and better and is firm, sweet and good, maintaining its large size to the last picking.The canes are of ironclad hardiness, very prolific and make a strong, healthy growth.It ripens early.Gault.An especially desirable variety for the home garden on account of its ever-bearing character, it being a truly perpetual bearer.The berries-are large and firm, of a beautiful, clear black, with fine, rich flavor, The young canes begin fruiting the first year, before the regular crop is gone, and bear successively until frost.Munger.Fruit black, resembles Gregg very much, Better flavored berry than Gregg, tougher in texture 'and a better shipper.In size it is much larger than Gregg, being extra fine for canning and evaporating.Its season of ripening is from five to ten days later than Gregg, and has a special faculty of withstanding drouth and hot sun, Older.Especially recommended for the North and sections where other varieties-do not succeed.Very hardy, vigorous and prolific; profitable for both home use and market.Berries sweet and rich, of large size, jet black; ripens before Gregg.Progress.(Pioneer Cap.)A very valuable and profitable early variety, ripening with Souhegan, but larger in fruit, with canes more vigorous and of greater yield.Berries jet black, very firm and of good quality.Redfield.The fruit is a pretty red, and the firmest of all red hare? of excellent quality and a tremendous bearer.The plant i is very bushy and stocky, Does not sprout, but propagates from the tips.One of the best for family or market.Does not crumble or masH down.Its immense bearing qualities make it exceedingly profitable, and its quality will always make it in demand.In size, only medium.Golden Mayberry.Originated by that celebrated experimenter, Luther Burbank, ofCalifornia, who describes it as follows: ''The earliest raspberry known, of golden straw color, 'as large as Cuthbert, and ripens here in April, before strawberries and the earliest of the standard raspberries have hardly awakened from their winter's rest, The bushes grow like trees, six to eight feet high.Ali along the branches large, white, well-shaped blossoms are pendent, which are soon followed by the great, sweet, glossy, golden, semi-translucent berries, the plants, when well established, will surprise one with their abundance of fruit.''Japanese Raspberry.(Wineberry.)Berry round, deep red, glossy, handsome and fairly firm.Borne in large clusters, and each berry at first tightly enveloped by the large calyx, forming a sort of burr, which is covered with purplish-red hairs.These gradually open and turn back, exposing wine-colored fruit of medium size, brisk, sub-acid, retaining flavor when cooked.Logan Berry.(Raspberry-Blackberry,) Originated in Cadifornia in 1884, supposed to be a cross between a red raspberry and a blackberry, In California for several years it has been grown in quantity for market and has been well tested in eastern States.Vine a strong grower, spreading like Dewberry, free from disease; canes large exceedingly prolific; ripens very early, Fruit size of large blackberries, same form and shape; color bright red, seeds small, flavor combination of blackberry and raspberry; mild, pleasewts vinous, excellent. Strawberry-Raspberry. (Rubus Sorbifolius,) Oneof the remarkable recent introductions from Japan.A beautiful dwarf raspberry, seeming from its character to be a hybrid between the raspberry and the strawberry.Bush dies to the ground in the fall, makes a handsome low-spreading plant, with dark green foliage.Fruit is early, stands well out from the foliage; size and shape of a strawberry; color brilliant crimson.OF FRUIT, ORNAMENTAL TREES, ETC.¥ GOOSEBERRIES.. Chautauqua.Combines size, beauty and quality with vigorous growth and productiveness, Fruit large, light yellow, free from spines and hairs; averaging one inch to one and one-fourth inches in diameter.Thick skinned, sweet and exquisite flavor, Columbus, This is a native American seedling of the English type, of large size, oval in form, skin greenish-yellow, smooth, of fine quality, Plants very strong growers; foliage large and glossy; so far has not shown a trace of mildew.Golden Prolific.As its name implies, this also isa heavy bearer; being an American seedling of the English type, it requires partial shade and a cool, rich soil for best results, It is comparatively free from mildew; a good grower andentirely hardy.The #2 berries are large, of a deep, rich golden-yellow, and of excellent quality. Josselyn.(Red Jacket.)A purely American variety r.valing the foreign sorts in size.A strong, thrifty grower, entirely free from mildew, very hardy and exceedingly productive.Berries large, smooth, of a beautiful ruby red and of fine flavor.Pearl.Native American seedling.It has a vigorous, healthy bush, free from mildew and | enormously productive.Berries one-half larger than the superb Downing; rich and =. sweet.Promises to be the greatest of all American gooseberries, CURRANTS.Pomona.This currant, while not the largest, yet is of good size and always attracts the buyer on market, It is a beautiful, clear, bright, almost transparent red, Ki@ieet Ku2heet \ a) wr ae ee jocmiues A5350s4, 30 feetexagortcet.-.4: a 5 Rectre.3Teetuuna nh reyes: va We ieeeds 2pO OA AGC ee ky COMeeE f ..teeBeteet Ki4 HeCie me ae: cchal
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