Title: (Choice new fruits)
Identifier: CAT31282733 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: W. N. Scarff (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Catalogs; Raspberries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio New Carlisle
Publisher: New Carlisle, Ohio : W. N. Scarff
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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12 Choice New Fruits. BLACKBERRIES. Our plants are extra fine this season, the most of them are root cuttings. Plants with good strong cross and fiber roots. Our prices too are very low considering the quality of our stock. Plant in rows 6 feet apart. Plants 3 feet in the row. Cultivate shallow or mulch with straw. Top young growth when 15 inches to 24 inches high. Trim back canes in spring and you will find the blackberry as profitable as any fruit you can grow. Eldorado. Like many of our best fruits, Eldorado is an accidental seed- ling, and takes its name from the town close by where it was found in Preble County, O. It has been culti- vated 12 years and under careful test at different experi- ment stations for four years, has never winter-killed or failed to pro- duce a full crop of the finest fruit. The vines are very vigorous and hard)' enduring the win- ters of the far Northwest without injury and their yield is enormous. The berries are very large, jet-black ; borne in large clus- ters, and ripen well together; they are very sweet, melting and pleasing t o taste; have no hard core. Fruit will sell 50c to -SI per bushel, higher than Snyder. We quote words of commendation from the following- high authority. From U. S. Poino- logist's Report, 1892:— "This berry was noted last year, and is of much promise; so much that a special colored plate has been fruiting in pendulous, slender, hairy
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made. It is an oblong, irregular berrv of large size spikes with few thorns, qualitv and very good." H.'E. VAN DEMAN, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C Color black; flesh deep crimson, with tender core; flavor sweet, rich $1 per dozen; $3 per 100: 825 per 1000. Our book on transplanting and careingfor all kinds of trees, plants, shrubs, etc. with each SI order and 2c stamp for postage. sent free

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