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We bade the old man

“year” that we called 18g,
a final farewell a few weeks
ago. In some respects the
old gentlemen treated us
well the past year. He gave
is __us a fine spring season for
“ digging and shipping plants, and we thank-
¢ fully made use of it. He sent us patrons from
a wide extent of country ; from our old home
in Illinois, where we shipped nearly one hun-
dred thousand plants, to the most distant
regions of California. Our plant season closed about the middle of May.
Hundreds of testimonials verify the fact that plants were generally satisfactory.
1890 gave us the largest crop of berries we ever raised, and the lowest prices
we ever received. But while 18go failed to fill our purses he did greatly reward
potato and apple growers in our state and Missouri with large crops and the
best prices received for these products in many years.

Thanking you one and all for your kind words and patronage the past year,
we take pleasure in introducing you to the beautiful child we call 1891. We
trust that he will give us an experience that will be more profitable and accept-
able than did his predecessor 18go.

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HIGHLAND SMALL FRUIT FARM.

UR new Highland Small Fruit Farm is half a mile South East of the city
limits, and three-fourths of a mile from our city residence. It is located on
a beautiful elevation overlooking the city of Lawrence, and being near the
Government Indian School furnishes a fine view of that institution with its
numerous and handsome buildings. It is our intention to make this a model
small fruit farm, both for beauty and utility. It will be largely experimental as
many of the latest novelties will be thoroughly tested, and the results given
through our catalogue, from year to year, for the benefit of our customers and
friends. A cordial invitation is extended to our patrons, and others interested
in berry culture, to visit our experimental berry farm this year during the fruiting
season, and note the behavior of both old and new sorts.

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ops catalogue price list is our only agent. We will try to make it our guide
in filling orders. The information we give is almost free. It embodies
twenty-five years of experience, embracing many varieties of small fruits ; ence
ét ts believed that it will give more practical information than any agent could
impart. Then by examining the prices herein, one will notice that they are
much lower than those usually asked by traveling salesman. So whatever
arrangements you find here in prices that agree with your idea, the sale if you
purchase, will be direc? from producer to consumer.

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| I decided to put my new seedling strawberry on the market in the following

| way, at two dollars per dozen, the plants not to be sent out until I got one
thousand orders. It is my No. 51, selected from over five thousand plants, that
I have raised from seed and tested in the last seven years. It has given five
crops in succession and apparently improves each season. It is the largest, the
most productive and tbe finest in quality of any variety that I have ever grown.
I have fruited over one hundred of the most noted varieties which have been
sent out since the advent of the Hovey’s seedling, and none of them have
equaled this magnificent new variety. It is conceded that the originalor of a
new fruit has the first right to name it and if he does not, the Horticultural
Society has the next right. I claim my right and publicly christen it the EpcaR
QueEEN. Edgar is a noble county, worthy of the berry, and the berry is worthy
of the name, and while we as good democrats and republicans differ on poli-
tics, we may now bow to this Queen of fruits and all be united in the verdi@
that it is the most wonderful berry that we have ever known.

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Introducer’s Description :

Lovett’s Early is a chance seedling (believed to have descended from the
| Crescent crossed with the Wilson) that was “discovered in Kentucky in 1885,
near the place of origin of Chas. Downing, Kentucky and Downer’s Prolific.
Both in Kentucky and New Jersey the variety has been tested by the side of all
the best varieties in cultivation, upon poor soil, and without fertilizers and in
every instance it has given results surpassing by far all others, responding to
good soil and culture as generously as any variety we know. In earliness it is
second only to Crystal City (that little extra early sort being but two or three
days in advance of it) and in productiveness it excels all other varieties we have
ever fruited ; and succeeds everywhere, even upon poor, light land. We do not

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claim for it mamoth size, but that it is above medium, averaging large and very
uniform, holding its size to the close of the season better than any other varieties
—by reason of its foliage maintaming perfect health and vigor until all berries
have ripened. The berries color all over at once, never with a green tip; sel-
dom illshaped and never cockscombed.

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\ ROBINSON SEEDLING.

This variety was originated in Franklin County, Kansas. A leading berry
grower recently informed me that the Robinson, was ns best payane strawberry
last year.

J. G. Robinson writes us as follows about its origin : Eebincon Strawberry
originated by planting seed from a Crescent Strawberry which was fertelized by
pollen from the Charles Downing and is therefore a cross of the Crescent and
the Downing and it possesses all of the merits of both parents without the faults
of either. In habit it resembles the Crescent while like the Downing it is. a
strong staminate and is an excellent fertilizer for pistilate varieties, blossoming
at the same time. It is a few days later than the Crescent but continues in
bearing as late as the latest of all varieties and will produce more well developed
berries than the Crescent on a given area of land, while the fruit is larger and
of a superior quality to either of its parents. Its foliage never rusts and it poss-
esses great vitality, and its only fault is its tendency to make too many plants
which should be kept in check by cutting the runners.

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GREAT PACIFIC.

This variety originated with D. J. Piper of Ogle County, Illinois, and was
sent out last spring on contract. All persons who got it had to sign a contract
not to sell any plants before September 2oth, 18g1, for less than $2.00 per dozen
or $10.00 per hundred.

Mr. J. V. Cotta says, ‘after fruiting 1t on his own greunds, it produced ten
times as much as Jessie and is far ahead of anything that has ever come to his
notice of strawberry kind. On my ground it is a very robust, healthy grower,
making lots of runners and good strong plants, growing the past hot, dry season
with great vigor, without a sign of rust or sun-scald.”

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NTHE PEARL.

This variety has made some friends, and good reports have gone out con-
cerning it in many localities. Its fruit is as firm as the Downing, and in color
dark red. , The plant is a strong grower. It is said by all who have fruited it
in the East that it is more attractive than the Captain Jack, but we fail to note
any points in the Pearl that are superior to the Downing, Captain Jack, or
Windsor Chief.

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THE GANDY.

The Gandy is a cross between a Jersey Queen and Glendale combin-
ing the size, beauty and good quality of the former with the firmness and lateness
in ripening of the latter. The plant is a very strong grower, productive and
with perfect blossoms, its foliage never rusts or has any other disease and the
fruit never scalds, no matter how hot or wet the weather. ‘The berries are of
mammoth uniform size and shape, of bright crimson color, very handsome

and showy, of superior quality. Truly the ideal /a¢ strawberry, ripening two
weeks after Sharpless.

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Do not set plants on a dry,
windy day if it can be avoided.
For setting plants hardly any two
men adopt the same methods or — Wrong way of planting.
use the same kind of tools. While some use a spade,
and boy to carry the plants, others mark off the rows
with a horse and narrow shovel plow, opening a furrow
three or four inches deep; boys follow dropping plants, while others follow,
spreading the roots and packing the soil firmly around them. We use a line and
employ men to set all our plants. To each line two men with bright garden
trowels and a small box or basket of plants, with roots moistened with water.
The men keep the plants heeled in the ground in one of the roads, before
referred to, taking out only two or three bundles at a time.

Remember, plants received from abroad mws¢ be unpacked on arrival.
' Loosen the bunches and heel them in the ground.

When it is desired to grow strawberries in hills or in the garden, make the
beds about six feet wide, three rows to a bed, with an alley two feet wide
between each bed. Set plants twelve inches apart. ®

Great care should be exercised in setting plants. Careless planting never
pays. ‘The roots should go down their full length into the soil, being spread
with the fingers somewhat in the shape of a fan; then the soil should be firmly
pressed with the hands around them.

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CULTIVATION.

OH ten days or two weeke after planting, a small iron-tooth rake will do
effective work in loosening the soil around the plants as well as destroying
young weed growth. ‘To follow this, a small steel or iron-tooth horse cultivator
may be worked betweed the rows every ten days during the summer-

When weeds begin to grow the hoe must be used, tenderly, around and
near the plants, to loosen up the soil. When the runners begin to grow, they
must be trained to set in the spaces between the plants. At no time during the
summer allow the strawberry beds to lay long after hard beating rains, before
you stir the soil between the rows. As soon as the rows are well set with young
plants, making a continued row ten inches wide, then cut off all runners, keep-
ing an open middle. Keep down all weeds from their first appearance after
planting, to close of the weed-growing season, which, in our climate, is about
the middle of September.

Much more might be said of cultivation. We could occupy a dozen pages
in taking in all the details of cultivating the berry field the first and second
years after planting. It is a much easier matter to set out a berry field than it
is to take care of it after it is planted. There are but few new beginners and
comparatively not many old planters who realize the importance and real bene-

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fits of thorough culture in the berry field. Weed growth in the west is very
rapid, and when the season is a wet one it will tax the energy and calculation
of planters to the uttermost to eradicate the weeds in the months of June and
July. Summing up the whole matter, the berry grower should be an active person,
not giving away to any of the discouraging features that lie along the road, such
as dry or wet weather, frost or hail storms.

STRAWBERRY LANDS.

lo’ no one who loves the strawberry and who lives on a town lot, or who is
the owner of a forty-acre farm, think that he has not a plot of land fit for
strawberries. To one who may be in doubt of the fact let him go. abroad on
the prairies or along hedge fences and he will discover the wild strawberry
growing where the seed were dropped bythe sweet singing birds of the forest.
Here all among the grass the seedling strawberry grows and bears its tiny fruit
every season. Here, too, the birds get their supply of berries when there are
no neighboring berry growers who raise larger or sweeter berries. For birds
are like children, they always pick the largest ones that they can find.

The strawberry vines seen on the highways are standing witnesses to the
certainty that berry lands are present, and the farmer who desires to raise a
supply for his own use or for market can do so.

The best soils may be found in the timbered lands bordering on the creeks
or the slopes: near the foot of hills. But berries may be planted on any soil
that will produce good wheat or corn. The year previous to planting the ground
should be broken and well pulverized; and harrowed several times during the
season. Land where sweet potatoes or cabbage grew the vear previous to
planting will work nicely for any kind of berries.

If such grounds are not convenient to be had, and if it is desired to plant
this vear, then seek a location in a corn field where the ground is clean. Break
it in February or early in March, and harrow and cross-harrow till thoroughly

THE STRAWBERRY FIELD.

berry field may be of any size that will afford the greatest convenience to

the cultivator. It may contain one, two, five or ten acres, or only a few rods
for home use. Whatever the size may be in acres, there should be wagon ways
around and across it for the purpose of hauling manure when necessary, or
mulching for winter protection.

For field culture. plant in rows from 3% to 4 feet apart, and in the rows
plants should be set from 12 to 15 inches apart. When plants are low in price
the space may be shortened, or when high they may be set from 18 to 20 inches
apart. With good culture and a moderate season for plant growth, the space
between the plants will be well filled up. It is always best to break the land for
the berry field late in the fall or early in the winter months, as freezing kills the
white grubs and the ground is in much better condition for planting than if
plowed in the spring.

A few days before planting a drag or fine smoothing harrow run over the
field will leave the soil very much in the condition of a pulverized bank of ashes.

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> Observations on Behavior of Strawberries<

SEASON 1890.
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ATLANTIC.—On account of its lateness and firmness we planted more
of this sort last season than formerly. In weight it is the heaviest berry we
ever saw. A crate of this berry weighs five pounds more than any other variety.
The Crescent is half gone when it begins to ripen. It is about as firm as the
Captain Jack and a few days later. In productit equals the Downing. Berries
are a bright scarlet, long pointed and glossy. It stands up well in transit from
Lawrence to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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VY BELMONT.—This variety was originated in Massachusetts. It did bet-
ter last season than it did in 1889. While it may be classed fairly productive,
we have at least a dozen sorts that are more profitable.

» BUBACH.—This was the largest
berry in our collection, but it did not attain
my ideal, as it does many of our small fruit
growers. I never was an admirer of a great
illshaped strawberry; especially when being
as soft as the Bubach and Cumberland.
Its fruit is sadly wanting in flavor, and its
color is not of that beautiful scarlet that is
characteristic of the Gandy, Windsor Chief,
Captain Jack, Mt. Vernon and Atlantic.

Vv KENTUCKY.—A late well known old

variety, rich flavor, but too soft for shipping.

NV JAMES VICK.—This sort returned
us a very large crop of firm berries. When
its plants are allowed to set compactly its
berries are small, but when its plants are
Hebeck: thinned out, the fruit is as large as the
Captain Jack.

CHARLES DOWNING.—This old standard sort, whose flavor is admired
by every body ; gave us the best crop it has ever done ; on some of our beds
its berries were as large as the Cumberland.

Y CRESCENT.—This sort, as usual, produced a large crop of berries but
the markets being glutted with them and prices too low for any profit, we gave
the pickers all they would carry away, and left the balance for the birds and
bees, while we picked firmer and more profitable berries.

VY HAVERLAND.—tThis sort is highly praised in many localities. There

is no question about its immense product ; itis even more productive than the
Crescent, but its softness and poor taste render it unsatisfactory. Firmness,
accompanied by excellence of taste is what is wanted by both shipper and
consumer.

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J KSSIE.—In regard to flavor this sort is one of the best. As regards to

product last season, it did better for us than at any previous year since we began
to grow it.

MAY KING.—This has been my favorite in
flavor for several years, but the last season’s product
was not satisfactory.

LIDA.—This variety was introduced by the late
Wm. Parry of New Jersey. It is fairly productive
but we have at least a dozen that are much superior.

MAMMOTH.—In name only, but not in size.
More than half a dozen other sorts lead it.

Y MONMOUTH.—In plant growth it is feeble, and
in fruit product no better, and no earlier than the
Crescent. ;

SO V JUMBO.—See Cumberland, a synonym.
May King. ‘VROBINSON’S SEEDLING.—See under head

of “ New Fruits.”

\y CUMBERLAND ( Jumbo).—Did remarkably well last year. It is much

~ better, to my taste, than Bubach. At the strawberry festival held by the ladies

of the M. E. C. where we had 33 varieties, a committee of ladies gave it first

premium for flavor. Then they sold the quart of berries on exhibition for fifty
cents.

a DUTTER.—We do not know who introduced this berry. We got our
plants of Mathew Crawford, a careful grower of Ohio. On our soil it is worth-
less, not even deserving a description.

NS PARRY.—Among the many berries, the
late Wm. Parry introduced, we place this one
first. In size and taste there are but few better
sorts; but its softness will always hinder it from
reaching distant markets.

PINE APPLE.—tThis sort, including Gold,
Dutter and Itasca, are the most unprofitable on
my grounds. Yet we grow them for a few people
who hearing good reports from them, now and
then, in other localities, want to test them.

OLD IRON CLAD.—Well known for its
earliness ; but the Michel is about four days
ahead of it, and much more productive.

Parry, MICHEL.—This sort is in the lead of all

others for earliness. We picked its first ripe

berries on the 14th of May, and the first of the Crescent’s on the 2oth of the

same month. Its fruit is not as large as the Crescent, but in profit to grow for
a near market it is more satisfactory with me.

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CAPTAIN JACK.—This grand old variety
led the van for shipping long distances (1100
miles) then giving better satisfaction than the
Bubach did when shipped 150 miles. A few
berry growers object to its undersize, but when
its plants are not allowed to set too thickly, it
will grow as large as the Crescent and Windsor
Chief. This is the best variety for fertilizing the
Windsor Chief, Bubach, Jersey Queen, Crescent
and Haverland. Last year the Captain Jack
produced a crop fully equal to the Crescent.

MOUNT VERNON.—This is another of
our late favorites. The very last picking from
our field last season, were the Atlantic, Mount
Vernon, Glendale and Manchester. This is a
grand quartette of berries, to which we will add
the Windsor Chief, for it lacks only two days of
being as late as the quartette above mentioned. Now these five varieties stood
by me last season after the old Crescent was out of the way Captain Jack, how-
ever, gave me abundant satisfaction all through the season, while the soft varie-
ties did not pay for the crates and picking.

’ MANCHESTER. This was a grand berry last year ; for me it was satis-
factory in every respect. It grew too larger size than usual. Its lateness like
the Glendale makes it valuable for late market after the early sorts are out of
the way.

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\ CLOUD SEEDLING.—In all my twenty-five years experience I never
was so disappointed in any new strawberry. Our southern friends sent it North
with a breeze equal to a cyclone, claiming it to be earlier than the Crescent by
at least a week. But with me it is not as early. On the poor thin soils of the
South it may be a success.

Me ONTARIO.—This sort is so much like the Sharpless that deserves no other
name.

“vy SHARPLESS.—This famous variety bore the name of the King of straw-
berries, for several years, or until the Bubach was introduced. Now there is a
doubt in the minds of mays growers as to which is the largest. But the.new
strawberry, Edgar Queen, will doubtless lead them both in the race for the -
crown.

Vo GLENDALE.—This late variety did remarkably wel! last season. We
never approach the close of the strawberry season, but we are very sorry that
we have not more acres of this late sort, as our market is always good when the
soft Crescent is out of the way, and the Glendale then at its best. .We discov-
ered a point in this variety this last year, that we had never before observed.
It was where the picking of a small bed had been neglected four or five days.
The point in question was the great sweetness of its berries after being left on
the vines so long after being ripe enough to ship. .

\ INDIAN A.—Moderately productive. The excellence of its flavor is its
best recommendation.

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JERSEY QUEEN.—Last year was a
good season for this sort. Its berries were
the equal of the Jessie. It is one among
the best for the home garden and family.

“ EDGAR QUEEN.—Scee plate and

description under head of “New Berries.”’
y [TASCA.—Fine in taste, but too small.
V GREAT PACIFIC.—This sort has

not fruited, being first planted last spring.
Its plant growth is very flattering and we
ee some fine fruit this season.

GANDY.—See plate under head of
“New Berries.”

Jersey Queen. V GOLD.—Very poor—not even worth
a description.

x CONNECTICUTT QUEEN and COUNTESS,—These two varieties gave

us a large crop, but they are both too soft for shipping purposes.

\MINR.—This old favorite with me seems to be on the decline. It may
be in our soil. A rich sandy loam is really necessary to bring out all its fine

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LADY RUSK.—New, and said to be late and a good shipper. It will
bear its first berries on my ground this year.

VY WARFIELD.—This is going to be the greatest commercial berry. Its
time of ripening is mid-season, being neither early nor late. Berries on plants
that are not allowed to set too thickly, are larger, of better flavor, and firmer
than the Crescent. There is no doubt but that this sort will, in a large meas-
ure, take the place of the Crescent. It is a great plant producer, and will give
satisfaction over a wide range of country.

WINDSOR CHIEF.—We were the first
party to introduce this fine berry to the berry
growers of Kansas. In the spring of 1881 we
got half a dozen plants, three of which survi-
ved the drouth of that season. We gave them
a new bed near the home and paid special
attention to their culture. Then in 1883 we
set out a larger bed, but it was not until the
berry season of 1884 that we noticed their
great productiveness ; and from that year to
this time the Windsor Chief has paid us more
for the ground it occupied than the Crescent.
While it is hardly as productive, it keeps up
its size to the close of the season, and, being
more attractive and firmer it brings better
prices.

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SUCKER STATH.—We have fruited this sort four or five years, and while
it has some good points, such as firmness, strong growth of plant, it is lacking
in product. It is a late sort, very firm, but the Gandy, Manchester, Mt. Vernon,
Windsor Chief, Glendale and Atlantic are its superiors in productiveness in my
berry soil.

VY WILSON’S ALBANY.—This is the oldest sort in my catalogue. This
famous old variety was originated with a man by the name of John Wilson of
Albany, N. Y. The late Peter Henderson the great florist wrote us about the
origin of the Wilson and its originator John Wilson was a market gardener of
Albany who had but a small plot of ground in berries. Before he knew or
realized the worth of this great strawberry, he had divided plants with his neigh-
bors, and thus lost the control of this once famous strawberry. It hada long
run, for it was the leading strawberry all over the country for nearly 30 years,
and is now In some northern localities planted extensively. On our soil it is a
failure, nor does it succeeed in any part of Kansas.

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IDEAL STRAWBERRIES.

LMOST every berry-grower has his ideal strawberry. It flourishes in about all

localities where berries are grown. In Massachusetts it is one thing, while
in New York it is another. Ohio growers cling to the Sharpless, but in Indiana
the Tippecanoe is the ideal of the Hoosier. Southern Illinois sticks to the
Warfield, and Northern Illinois fights for the Bubach and Great Pacific, while
in-the Eastern part of that state songs of praise are chanted abroad for the new
strawberry Edgar Queen. So here we will give you a pointer, it is this, that we
believe the Queen will lead all in size, that ever preceded it. Arkansas is, like-
wise, lauding the Michel to the skies. Then from good old New Jersey there
is Lovett’s Early; and yet a Kansas man claims the new seedling, Robinson, to
be his best. Now we have all these ideals of other localities, as well as a seed-
ling of our own that may grow into an ideal by and by. As long as we live ideals
will be a little ahead of some of us; but at no time and in no ‘other age of the
world has there been such an array of good productive strawberries as we have
in this new world called the United Stains Would add furthermore, that in no
other age of the world has the brain of man been so intensely engaged in seek-
ing for the best of everything as now.

The plants received all right in first class condition. I received them the
day after they were shipped and set them out in the afternoon. I ploughed them
to-day and I think I won’t lose a dozen in the whole lot.—[John C. Umsted,
Fort Scott, Kansas.

The plants arrived in good order, and I am very much pleased with them.
Accept thanks for promptness.—[M. B. Meily, Warrensburg, Mo.

Thanking you for OE very prompt response to my order, and for the nice
fresh plants sent.—[R. L. Cochran, Editor Peabody Graphic.

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ite best soil for raspberries is a deep sandy loam ; but they will grow and
yield paying crops on any soil that will grow corn or potatoes. The culti-
vation of a raspberry plantation is as simple as it is to grow a field of corn.
Prepare the ground as for an Irish or sweet potato crop, and plant in rows four
by six feet. Planted thus they may be cross cultivated. Mark off the ground
as if intended for corn, and set plants about three inches deep, pressing the soil
firmly around the plants. Red raSpberries should be set an inch or more deeper
than blacks, but the same distance apart. The ground on which they are
planted need not be entirely lost the first season of their growth, as a row of
corn, or potatoes, which is better, may be planted between the rows of raspberries.

Vv THK LOVETE is a chance
seedling. originating in Jefferson
Co.. Indiana, where it has been
fruited for several years by the
side of the Doolittle Improved,
Gregg and other popular sorts.
proving each season as ear/y as
Doolittle, as large as the Gregg,
perfectly hardy, very firm and a
good keeper, very sweet and of
the finest flavor ; the Gregg be-
ing winter-killed to a greater or
less extent in adjacent rows each
season.—[Introducers desc.

“BRANDY WINE.—This is
a hardy red variety; berries
very firm and a shade darker
than the Turner.

V SHAFFER. — This sort is
growing in favor for canning
purposes. It is probably the
most producctive of all rasp-
berries. )slhe. froth 1s\ taedull
purple red not firm enough for
shipping above a hundred miles.
The bush is not perfectly hardy.

THE LOVETT. Very severe winters partially
kill the bush.

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Y PHWACK.—This is the
firmest of all the red sorts.
Berries a bright scarlet, and
a better shipper than any
of the black caps. Shall
plant more Thwacks than
any other reds for western
markets.

4 V GREGG.—This sort is
Ws 6so well known that a des-
cription is unnecessary.

SMITH’S IRON CLAD.
—This variety originated in
Douglas County, Kansas,
about twenty years ago. In
growth of bush and fruit it
is much like the mammoth
cluster. It ripens about
three days earlier.

v CUTHBERT.—This rasp-
berry 1s growing more in favor
in the West. It has not been
injured by cold weather since
1885. The Cuthbert is very
late, and is a great favorite.

”Y MARLBORO.—The berries largest of all the reds. Cane not as strong a
grower as Cuthbert or Thwack.

VY GOLDEN QUEEN.—This sort is fully equal to the Cuthbert, its parent.
in growth of bush and in the size of its berries. The bush is even more hardy
than the Cuthbert.

MAMMOTH CLUSTER.—Old and Reliable.

\; SOUHEGAN.—This is the hardiest of all the black varieties. Neither heat
nor cold has thus far injured its productiveness.

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\ HOPKINS.—Well known.
Y CRIMSON BEAUTY.—This raspberry has never given me satisfaction.

‘YURNER.—Probably best known of the red kinds. Bush is a very strong
erower ; fruit hardly as bright as Thwack. It is not firm enough for shipping
except in pint boxes. -

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PROFITS OF RASPBERRY GULTURE.

oN) ee depends on the season, the cultivation and the prices. The first year
after planting, when properly cultivated, a third of a crop of from fifteen
to twenty bushels may be gathered per acre. Third year, when the patch is at
the full bearing age, from fifty to sixty bushels will be a fair average crop of
black or red raspberries.

When a raspberry patch is in full bearing and the season is favorable, from
$100 to $125 per acre, after expense is paid, may be realized. Twenty-five
years ago $150 to $250 per acre was the estimate on raspberries; but times
and the seasons have changed as well as the markets.

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THE BLAGKBERRY FIELD.

ORMERLY we planted blackberries 3 by 6, but now be plant in rows 8 to 10
feet apart, with a space of 3 or 4 feet between each plant. The same pre-
paration of soil for strawberries and raspberries is good for the blackberry.
The cultivation should be kept up all through the summer the first year. One
or two plowings and a hoeing after the first year is all that is necessary.

V

Karly Har-
vest.—-This is the
earliest of black-
berries. It ripens
at the time of the
Mammoth Clus-
ter raspberry.
The fruit of me-
dium size, glossy
black, and firmer
than any other
berry known.

V

ERIE.—! fail
to see any ad-
} vantage in this
sort over the
Snyder, unless
perhaps it may
be sweeter.

. SNYDER.—Bush a very strong grower, hardy, very productive.
’ STONE’S HARDY.—tThis sort is as productive as the Snyder. Berries

are more oval. Bush is not so strong a grower as the Snyder, but it will stand
more drouth.

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KITTATINNY—Is old and well known.

WILSON JUNIOR.—This is a grand blackberry, but it will not eetand our
cold winters. The bush is a strong grower, but it freezes down nearer the
ground than any blackberry we know of. Hf
Vv.

TAY LO R— Vv

Bush as hardy as -ARIVOUUSTER
Snyder; fruit as
large as Kitta-
tinny, very sweet.
It ripens more
slowly than the
Snyder. Last
year I had Taylor
berries ten days
after Snyder were
gone. No fruit-
grower will make
a mistake j in planting the Taylor.

Very much like
the Early Harvest.
Said to be more pro-
ductive in New Jer-
sey. Fruit is a little
larger on our ground
than the Early
Harvest:

POPES E EFF FOF E FEF

The Strawberry plants arrived on the 16th, in fine condition. This was
the quickest order, I believe, that I ever have had fiilled.—[S. S. Mountz, Belle

Plaine, Kansas.

POLLENIZING.

nN former catalogues and price
lists, we have recommended

four or five rows of pistillate varie-
ties to two or three of staminates.
But our latest experience proves that an equal number
rows of staminates are surer of abundant fertilization.
The best fertilizers, are the "Captain Jack, May King,
Miner and Downing among the older sorts. The Jessie
is probably the best among new varieties. Some berry growers recommend the
Sharpless, Bidwell, and others that are not productive enough within themselves
for profit, but when we have staminates that are productive it is more profitable
to use them for pollen, than to use a dead head variety simply for that purpose.
When we have very wet weather during the blooming period of strawberries,

it is detrimental to the proper fertilization. The pollen dust is not equall dis-
tributed ; hence so many imperfect berries during a wet season. ‘The finest
crop of berries we ever raised was when there was scarcely any rain during the

« blooming period. ‘
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS iN Bide BERRY BEER:

WENTY-FIVE years ago this ais we een a $1500 situation on the
Hlinois Central R. R., to engage in fruit culture. Having been in the
employment of the Rail Road eight years, we had the oppertunity of witnessing
the beginning of the strawberry industry that has made Southern Illinois so
famous as a fruit country. It was while thus engaged about the first of May
1860 that we carried the first four quart package of strawberries in our baggage
car, grown in that region. The package was marked to some of the officials of
the Rail Road, in Chicago. The berries were raised at a small station twenty
miles North of Cairo. As we had been in the employ of the company two
years previously, and not seeing or hearing of any cultivated berries, we feel
assured that this was the first package of cultivated strawberries that was ship-
ped from South of the Ohio and Mississippi railway to Chicago. For some
three or four years the first berries shipped from Southern Illinois sold from one
dollar to one dollar and a half per quart, in Chicago for the first consignments.
Hence the profits of berry culture in those early years so stimulated the industry
that the R. R. Company began to run a regular fruit train in 1867, leaving
Southern Illinois in the afternoon and arriving in Chicago the following morning.
With tke extension of the Illinois Central R. R. through Central Mississippi
to New Orleans, enterprising berry growers have extended this industry along
its line, till now the train starts in lower Mississippi about the zoth of March,
then follows the berry season up into Illinois. When the season is at its best
in Illinois there are from twenty to thirty-five car loads of strawberries delivered
daily in Chicago by this road.

“SHALL WE DISCOURAGE the GROWTH of the CRESCENT ?

OFS berry-growers, for commercial purposes, we should discard the Crescent
strawberry. In my report as Chairman of Committee on Small Fruits, at
the late meeting of the Kansas State Horticultural Society, I did all I could to
discourage its culture, on the grounds that “all the large markets of the country
were glutted with them, because of their softness and ‘unfitness for re- shipping
to the smaller markets of the country towns.’’ My commission merchant in
Denver, writes me every year to ship Capt. Jacks, and other firm berries that he
can re-ship to his trade in the mountain towns. Hence the case in Denver will
apply to all the large markets. The smaller markets would consume a large
amount of berries, were they firm enough for re-shipment. When we ship
berries that are firm enough for further transit, the commission men or other
dealers have to bill them out according to the low grade price that is establish-
ed or governed by the vast quantities of soft Crescents on the market.

When the picking season of the Crescent is about half over, the rest of the
crop is worthless, save for canning or preserving. In fact, it is a great hind-
rance from first to last, to the commercial value of good berries.

I began last spring to curtail Crescent planting, by setting only one-half
acre out of ten acres, which I planted largely in Capt. Jack, and other firm
varieties. “Samuel Miller, of Missouri, and other writers on small fruits, favor
the overthrow of the Crescent as a commercial berry. The question is, to pre-

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vail on or persuade those large commercial strawberry-growers to see that there
are larger profits in a less number of acres, planted with firmer varieties. I
have advice from some of the largest Crescent berry-growers in the West, that
no money has been made out of the Crescents for several years.

Will our berry cultural friends consider this matter candidly ? If we would
be prosperious berry-growers, we must make a study of this matter of over pro-
duction, and how we may combine not to grow a surplus product, beyond a
healthy, active market. To produce a surplus of products, no matter what they
may be, whether fruits, grain, cattle, or manufactured goods, is a waste of life
and capital. Hence, the salvation of the fruit-growers and the common farm-
ers, is to unite and form a sort of secret bureau of information about what the
markets can consume of our fruits. Then let us limit or extend our planting
accordingly, making due allowance for possible failure in short crops. Thus
fortified, we would not plant in darkness, but would have light enough to guide
us in the probable supply of the markets, and thus avoid on everproduct.

ay RASPBERRIES.

HE raspberry crops were less satisfactory in product the past year than they

were in 1889. While it was too wet then, this last season was too dry.

Berries, however, were firmer and stood the racket of transit; and prices were
better than they were in 1889.

For earliness and productiveness the ouhesan is first. However it is not
giving the satisfaction it did a few years ago. The cane growth is becoming
more spindling, while its fruit is not so large. In fact some of its friends are
losing confidence in it, and they are looking for an early variety that has more
vitality. The Gregg is likewise growing less productive, while its cane growth
is not as large as formerly. The old McCormick, Miami, Smiths Ironclad, and
even Hopkins, are not the berries they were eight or ten years ago. Hence it
is advisable that we, as berry-growers, be on the alert for varieties of black-caps
that will stand the extremes of our seasons and return us value for labor bestow-
ed on their growth.

The red varieties, Cuthbert, Thwack and Brandywine seem to be as vigor-
ous in growth of bush and product as formerly. Likewise the Shaffer, which is
neither black nor red, but purple, still holds its own in vigor of growth. The
fruit, however, is too tender for distant shipments.

BLACKBERRIES.

E the race among the blackberries for a long life, the Snyder and Taylor are
in the lead. These two varieties are as strong and vigorous as they were in
the beginning. While there are other sorts whose fruit is larger, their canes are
full of disease, made so, probably by cold winters. Hence the experience
among berry-growers is in favor of the Snyder for first place, and the Taylor
next in the race. The Early Harvest is too small, and too early, coming as it
does, along with the Souhegan raspberry. Stone’s Hardy is but little larger

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than the Early Harvest ; the only merit in it being its continuing a few days
after the Snyder has gone. There is more anxiety among fruit growers for an
improvement in the raspberry than there is on the strawberry. We have at
least a dozen profitable market varieties of strawberries, while we have only two
or three of Blackberries.

There is, therefore, an inviting field open to the finder, or producer of a
few good raspberries, and for at least half a dozen good blackberries.

MARKETING THE BERRY CROP.

HE question of marketing fruit has grown to be a serious one, and by no
means easy of solution. The berry product the last two years, has been
larger than the demand, or in other words, berry-growers are increasing faster
than the consumers. Again, the cost of transportation is not in keeping with
the low price of our berries. Another serious matter is the careless handling
of our berries when transferred from one road to another. The wagon and
truck drivers in the employ of the transportation companies, seem not to under-
stand the necessity of carefully handeling easily damaged fruits. Tender fruits
must be handled tenderly when in transit, even for a short distance, in order
that the packages may arrive at their destination in a fit condition to meet the
wants of consumers. Were a petition signed by all small fruit-growers, and
sent, every season, to the transportation officials, asking for the proper handl-
ing of our berries ; the evil might be remedied.

A WORD TO OUR CUSTOMERS.

E have many customers who have bought plants of us every year since we

began to grow plants for sale. It is always a pleasure to hear from them.

They will find no other plant growers who will try harder to supply them with

good plants true to name. Whether you want plants or not it will do us good
to hear from you, and to know what you are doing in fruit growing.

A few of our old patrons went to California during the great boom craze,
who doubtless failed to realize their cherished desires, as fruit growing in that
sunny land is beset with more hinderances than it is in Kansas, notwithstanding
the extremes of our mid-continent climate. A warm and equible climate is very
agreeable to our bedies, as we grow in age, but the vigor and tonic we get out
of a North-Western blizzard make us more active and better servants of the age
in which we live.

The strawberry plants received the same day, they are in fine condition.
Have them set out, and do not think I shall loose one. Please accept thanks
for 50 extra Jessie plants. When I need more I shall certainly send to you for
them.—[Jas. Johnson, Harveyville, Kansas.

The plants arrived in good condition, can say that you raise good plants.
I willrecommend youto my neighbors. Thanks for good count.—[W. R. Stover.

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Remarks to Purchasers.

OUR LOGATION is in the most fertile fruit growing region in the State of
Kansas. There are more berries, more plants, more apples, and pears shipped
from Lawrence than from any other three towns in the State. Our own ship-
ments of fruits and plants last year was above 5000 packages. Owing to the
drouth of last season, there is a scarcity of strawberry plants throughout the
West, hence the advance in prices, which are regulated according to the supply.
Still my prices are lower than are those of our nursery friends farther East.

OUR SVOOK is of our own growing—pure, strong, healthy plants. Our
plants are tied 25 in a bunch, and packed in light boxes. . We sell only young
well rooted plants from which all dead leaves and runners have been removed.
They are packed in shallow boxes, the roots are in moss and the leaves chests
to the air.

TERMS OF SALE. Cash with the order. No trust, no bad debts. This
is better for us and better for our customers. It enables us to sell. at lower
prices.

REMITTANCE may be made in cash by express, by registered leétter, or
Dy P. O. order, or by draft on Kansas City, St. Joe, or Chicago.

_, DURATION OF PLANT SEASON. Shipping in spring begins about ae
25th of March and continues till about the middle of May, and in the fall from
October first until freezing sets in.

SMALL ORDERS. Orders for less than $1. are not desired, as the cost
of booking, packing and necessary correspondence exceeds the amount in value
of such orders.

.. PRICES OF PLANTS. ‘Five hundred of one kind will be furnished’ at
one thousand rates, but the prices in the table must be the use for mixed
orders of several kinds,

OLD PLANTS CONDEMNED. A standing rule, and leading feature of
our business is, never to send out a two year old strawberry plant, and permit
no plants to go out from my grounds not true toname. J¢ has been our custom
Jor years to take our plants Soi om new one year old beds that have never born a
crop of berries.

PRINTED LABELS. Where orders are mixed with several kinds, each
bunch will have a printed label. In orders for several thousand, seperate boxes
or partitions between different sorts will be the guide for separation.

PACKING HOUSE. The cars on Massachusetts street run direct to our
packing house and residence, where visitors are lee to inspect our mode of
packing berry plants.

NOVELTIES. Among the dozen new varieties of strawberries in our list,
are two exceedingly promising new varieties. These are the Edgar Queen and
Robinson Seedling. No berry grower will make a mistabe in adding these two
varieties to his list, no matter how large it may be.

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LARGE ORDERS. To parties who want from 20000 to roo00o0 straw-
berry plants. Special prices will be made.

BEST RED RASPBERRIES. We have a superior stock of Cuthbert,
Brandy Wine and Thwack, red raspberry plants. These varieties are as hardy
as any of the black sorts, and their berries will bear shipping as far as Denver,
where they bring better prices than the black sorts.

CORRESPONDENGE. We like to correspond with those who want plants,
and especially with our old patrons who have been dealing with us since we
began the business. Now if you want small fruit plants, write to us and get our
prices. Don’t send away off East for plants that you can buy at home for the
same price or less money.

Merits of the Strawberries.

The Michel, Cloud, May King, old Iron Clad, and Crescent. are the
earliest varieties. |

Later sorts are the Captain Jack, Miner, Warfield, Chas. Downing, Jessie,
Bubach, Sucker State, Sharpless, Cumberland, Indiana.

Still later varieties, Windsor Chief, Jas. Vick, Manchester, Kentucky, Parry,
Gandy, Lacon and Lida.

The very latest sorts, Jersey Queen, Mt. Vernon, Gandy, Glendale, Count-
ess and Connecticut Queen.

The best shippers: The Capt. Jack, Jas. Vick, Windsor Chief, Charles
Downing, Glendale, Manchester, May King, Sucker State, Mitchell.

The largest berries: Jessie, Bubach, Windsor Chief, Sharpless, Manchester,
Miner, Parry, Jersey Queen, Mt. Vernon, Edgar Queen.

Best flavored: To our taste, May King is the first in flavor. More than
a dozen varieties claim second honors. We name Mt. Vernon, Miner, Jersey
Queen, Chas. Downing, Windsor Chief, Sharpless, Indiana, Kentucky, Parry.

The Strawberry plants you sent me came all right. I am well pleased with
them. Many thanks for your present, which I appreciate very much.—[Jas. F.
Smith, Burden, Kansas.

Strawberry and Raspberry plants received in fine condition and have al-
ways found plants true to name, bought of you. I am very much oblige for
present of Pearl and Mitchell strawberry plants hoping you may be better known
by men that wants plants true to name.—[G. W. Grown, Winfield, Kansas.

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CHERRY.—Not so bright a scarlet as Fay. Each ro cents, dozen $1.00.

RED DUTCH.— More largely grown than any other variety ; hardy, good.
Each ro cents, dozen $t.0o.

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DOWNING.—Larger than Houghton but not half as productive. Each 25
cents, dozen $1.50.
HOUGHTON.—Most productive. Each 15 cents, dozen $1.00.
INDUSTRY.—New. Each 30 cents, dozen $3.00.

Winter Gardening,
Spring Gardening,
Summer Gardening,
Fall Gardening.

4 lot of delightful, practical articles and pleasing illustrations in window

AN gardening make up the 16-page Supplement of THE AMERICAN
, GARDEN for December.

Sal are? THE AMERICAN GARDEN is a bright and practical mag-
azine for all who love nature, and work or play with flowers, fruits and gardens.
Of many new features in 1891, we can name only a few here:

Fruits, Flowers and plants for the Cold North. Illustrated

Japanese Edible Plants. A series running through the year, by Prof. C. C. GroreEson, for three years
in the Imperial College at Tokio, where he collected materials and photographs for this series. The most
important contribution ever made to our knowledge of Japanese Horticulture.

Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass. Illustrated.

Notes from a Woman’s Garden. Bright, truthful and useful. Illustrated.

Gardening for Women and the Home. Illustrated.

Greenhouse Heating and Construction. Illustrated.

New Varieties in Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables. Illustrated.

Horticulture Upon the Prcific Slope. Tllustrated.

Landscape Gardening, in many features. will be prominent for 1891. Illustrated.

Horticulture in the South. Tllustrated.

- Rare Orchids and Tropical Plants, Illustrated.
Greenhouse Plants and Management. Illustrated.
Notes from a Garden Herbarium: Making plain the confused botany of cultivated plants.

This is the only journal which gives full and clear accounts of the work of
the experiment stations.

Terms to Subscribers, 1 year $1.65; 6 months $1.
Address, B. F. SMITH, Box 6, Lawrence, Kans.

The New Potato Culture

As developed by 15 years of experimentation. Illustrated.

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Annals of Horticulture

For 1890.
By Pror. L. H. Baitey.

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expects to keep up with the progress of the times can
be withoutit. An especial feature of the volume for
1891 will be a census of cultivated plants of American
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