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PLANT HAUPT BERRIES
IN SUMMER AND FALL

THE AUSTIN NURSERY

F. T. RAMSEY & SON
AUSTIN, TEXAS

THE VALUE OF NATIVES

Plants that grow wild in any country will withstand diseases and
the extremes of the weather better than plants that are not native.
It is strange that nurserymen did not sooner begin paying attention to
our native berries, but all men everywhere are inclined to undervalue
native plants and flower. Thus they cheat themselves.
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THE HAUPT BERRY.

The late Colonel Haupt, of Hays County (twenty miles from Austin),
tramped the woods and prairies hunting dewberries. His friends helped
him. He secured a new berry from Wharton County that is a cross
between a blackberry and a dewberry, that eclipses anything we have
ever seen.

Several years ago we paid Colonel Haupt $30.00 for a hundred plants.
After watching and testing them for a few years we decided it was the
most valuable single variety of all fruits we had ever seen. We at
once gave Mrs. Haupt $900.00 for the privilege of digging the plants
from her small patch for three years (practically all there were in
existence), and later gave her $600.00 to have the contract extended
two years.

The Vine is a rank grower and bears so lavishly that the berries are
fairly in heaps. Every bloom makes a berry, and every berry is sweet
and large. It commences to ripen the last days of April and continues
five weeks.

You never find a half pollenized berry on the Haupt.

The foliage is always deep green, even on lime land where fruit trees
and most other berries are a yellow color. It is partial to rich black
land. There are really two or more slightly different strains mixed. The
cross pollenization is beneficial. =

ITS VALUE.

The Haupt is the only berry we have ever planted extensively our-
selves for market. Our two old rows paid at the rate of over $1000.00
an acre, above cost of crates and picking. Every year, when other vari-
eties almost failed entirely, the Haupt has yielded abundantly.

With a hundred vines of this berry a housekeeper may put up a year’s
supply of the finest jelly, jam, and canned berries, and do it in pleas-
ant spring weather.

CAN BE PLANTED IN SUMMER AND FALL.

Like the dewberry of the southern strain it is an evergreen—that is,
it grows all winter if the weather is not too severe.

Trees are planted in the winter because they are dormant—not grow-
ing. We observed that the severe dry spells we usually have in July
and August caused these plants to suspend growth as completely as they
do in winter, becoming possibly more dormant. This fact, together with
our desire to get two crops of plants a year from the old patch and to
get a large lot on our own place, prompted us to dig over the patch in
August, 1908. We planted nearly 30,000 and practically every plant
lived. Some died in a severe drouth a few weeks later. In 1909 we
again dug and planted. We know the practice is a success.

It is cheaper than winter planting because the plants, with little or no
care, get a good strong start in the fall and winter while the weeds and
grass are not growing. The winter set plants require tedious care in
competition with weeds and grass in the spring.

With careful handling we have planted in June with splendid re-
sults. The vines produced a crop the following spring.

A POLLENIZER FOR McDONALD.

Of recent years the McDonald berry on many locations has failed to
set good crops, often having but two or three drupes on a berry on
account of not being perfectly pollenized. We find that every Mc-
Donald growing near the Haupt is loaded down with big, perfect, firm
berries. In one instance, on the ends of some McDonald rows that came
against a patch of Haupt, the berries were perfect, while on the other
ends of the rows they were hardly worth picking. The planting of Haupt
near McDonald brings the latter back to the productiveness of former
years.

If you have McDonald, plant a row of Haupt on each side of them.

NUMBER TO AN ACRE.

If you plant Haupt in rows 6 feet apart and 4 feet in the row, you
will need 1815 on an acre. It may pay to put them 7 by 5 feet, using
1244 on an acre.

A Vine of Haupt Berry—the Same Every Year.

HAVE GROUND IN GOOD CONDITION.

Do not order unless your ground is in fine condition. Plow and har-
row thoroughly. If it is moist from rain, the plants can be dropped
in bottom of furrow, tramped down firm, and covered with a cultivator.
When the young shoots begin to start, drag off the rows, thus killing a
crop of young weeds.

If the ground is dry, each plant should be watered, and the loose
soil mounded up to the top. However, in our own plantings, we always
water every plant. As a matter of insurance, we believe it pays.

You can plant ‘Taupt berries between cotton rows, but they are good
enough to justify the plowing up of some cotton.

THE ADVANTAGES OF BERRIES.

They begin to bear in one year and a failure is unknown.

They begin to ripen a month ahead of early peaches, and are the most
profitable of all fruits, whether for home or market.

Marketmen say they can come nearer selling dewberries at every house
than anything they ever put on their wagons.

A patch of Haupt pays in one year after you plant it, and at ten years
of age pays just as well as at four years.

Mr. E. P. Norwood, who lives twelve miles from Austin, met us at
our Farmers’ Institute, and took us aside and made the following state-
ment. We vouch for its truth. ‘“‘You remember, I got a thousand dew-
berries from you a year ago last February. This spring when they be-
gan to bear, one of my renters proposed to pick and sell for half the
money. I agreed to it, but I was to pick all I wanted, and I am sure
that all I used were worth more than the plants cost. He turned me over
$67.50. So from one-third of an acre I have received average cotton
rent for twenty-two years and a half in advance on a whole acre.”’

THE FIRST OFFER OF THIS KIND EVER MADE.

Hereafter we expect to be ready to fill orders for Haupt on short
notice during July, August, September, and October, as well as during
the winter months. If you have a good rain, or if you can water when you
plant, let your order come right in, and we can have the plants to you
within a very few days. No farm, market, or city garden should be with-
out the Haupt berry.

PRICES OF HAUPT.

One dozen, by mail or express prepaid, $1.50.

One hundred, by express prepaid, $6.00.

One thousand, by express prepaid, $40.00.

Our catalog rule of replacing at half price anything that dies in one
year after planting applies also on summer shipped Haupt. .

If you want at any time other sorts of berries or any kind of fruit
trees, shades, pecans, or ornamentals, write for our new catalog. In it
you will also find full directions for planting, pruning, watering, etc.
If you wish to make any further inquiries, we are always glad to answer
them.

We are offering to plant budded or grafted pecan trees in large lots
and take pay for the trees that are alive at the end of the first season.
If you are interested in Pecans, write for our Pecan Circular.

Catalog, special circulars, and any information we can furnish are
sent free upon request.

THE AUSTIN NURSERY

F. T. RAMSEY & SON, Proprietors
AUSTIN, TEXAS

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POINTS FROM THE PRESS AND
THE PEOPLE.

Everybody likes berries and berry fixings.

It is cheaper to grow berries at home than it is to gather them wild,
even if they do well around your place.

The roots of a dewberry go twice as deep in the ground as do the roots
of a blackberry.

A dewberry patch never needs resetting. The roots, like pecan roots,
never quit coming.

When you set a patch of Haupt, you have something that will be with
you all your life.

A patch of Haupt gives you fine, sweet, fresh berries one-tenth of the
year, and the best of anything ever put in jam jars or jelly glasses the
balance of the year.

A pure dewberry bears one berry on each stem thrown up in the spring
from the growth of the previous year. The Haupt bears in clusters of
five to seven like a blackberry, but the vines spread on the ground and
take root (tip) like a dewberry. A blackberry never does that.

Texas has more wild dewberries than all the balance of the world.
She is the proud mother of some fine ones.

Never tie up or trellis a dewberry vine; the largest and sweetest berries
grow near the ground.

A Bit of Science. The animal families that are of most use to man
are the ones in which we find the most variation, in color, size and other
qualities. The buffalo, zebra, and giraffe are of but little service to man.
The tame pigeons of many colors lay more eggs than the one-colored
wild ones. Chickens, with their countless colors, lay more eggs than
any other fowls. Dogs know more than do wolves.

There has never been on this earth a country occupied by a people that
differed so widely and in so many different degrees of temperament,
complexion, form, and physiognomy as do the Americans of this day,
and none ever went forward so rapidly in the fields of mental and physical
effort, the sum of which we call success.

You never saw two pecan trees nor two dewberry vines alike, unless
they were propagated from one seedling. A nut or a seed of these never
produces its exact like. Other nuts are monoform, or nearly so.

When we consider that the pecan and the dewberry are the only ones
in their respective families that possess the quality of variableness—
.a quality we find only in the best of fruits and animals—no one can
hesitate in declaring them the princes of their kind. This quality of
persistent or universal variation seems developed to a higher degree in
them than in anything else in the animal or vegetable kingdoms. Is
this a newly written law? A knowledge of it is helpful. PP Re.

ORDER BLANK.

F. T. RAMSEY & SON, Austin, Texas:

Please send to me by mail or express prepaid the following plants:

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REMARKS:

If possible, I should like to have the above order arrive about

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In making this order, it is understood that you will replace at half
price, if I desire it, all plants that die the first year after planting.

My name.

Postoffice.

Express office.

Salesman.

Note.—We can always ship promptly, and upon receipt of your order
will notify you before shipment is made, so that there will be little or no
delay-before or after plants are sent. We guarantee them to arrive in

first-class condition.
(SEE OVER) F. T. RAMSEY & SON.

We shall appreciate it if you will write below the names of a few
friends who might be interested in our catalog and special circulars.

NAMES OF THOSE WHO NEED A CATALOG ADDRESS
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