Title: Forage plants and grasses, vegetable and flower seeds : plants, bulbs and seed potatoes
Identifier: CAT31291751 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Drew, Oliver H; Oliver H. Drew (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Forage plants Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Hibernia, Dutchess County, N. Y. : Oliver H. Drew
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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JapaneseWineberry. This grand new fruit is the greatest novelty of the age, and universally conceded to be one of the most valuable introduc- tions of the century. It belongs to the Raspberry family, is a strong, vigorous grower, attain- ing the usual height of a Rasp- berry, and is perfectly hardy m all situations, needing no pro- tection. The fruit is borne in large clusters, often 75 to 100 berries in a bunch. The flavor of the fruit is entirely differ- ent from any other berry, being very sprightly, sweet and juicy. It retains its fresh, sprightly flavor after being cooked and for cooking in any form there is nothing which can compare with it. Fruit ripens in July and continues in bearing for a long time; very prolific. PRICE—First-class, vigorous Slants, for fruiting first year, y mail, postpaid, 10c. each; 4 for 30c; 16 for $1. TwOf-year old plants, 15c. each; 15 for $1; 100 by express $5. SEED—The Wineberry grows freely from seed and produces strong, vigorous plants, which fruit abundantly the second year. To get seed to germinate freely, allow the soil in which it is sown to freeze. Fall is the best time to sow seed; pkt. 5c. Japanese Golden Mayberry. A Raspberry which ripens its fruit before Strawberries. The earliest Raspberry known. The berries are of a golden straw color; 20c. each; 3 for 50c. The Strawberry Raspberry. This fine and novel fruit, in- troduced by as, is a beautiful dwarf Raspberry, growing only 15 to 18 inches high. Fruits early; pot plants, 20c. each. Lucretia Dewberry. An immense sort, sweet and juiev, berries borne in clusters; 8c. each; 10 for 50c; 25 for $1. 11. ,$MM
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Buffalo Berry. Perhaps more ornamental than useful, in sections where fruit is scarce it is highly prized. Valuable as a winter fruit, as the berries remain upon the bushes until early spring, and can be picked at any time all winter. Before severe freezing the fruit is exceedingly sour, but after first frost the flavor is much richer and sweeter. Berries are a bright scarlet and in size somewhat larger than a large Currant. Fine for jellies, sauce or pies. It should have a place in every collection; 20c. each; 3 for 50c JAPANESE WINEBERRY. The Dwarf Rocky riountain Cherry. One of the most productive fruits grown, 15 to 20 quarts of fruit being picked from a three-year-old bush. The fruit when ripe is jet black and in size somewhat larger than the English Morello. In flavor it is much like sweet cherries. It is ornamental in both flower and fruit. It bears every year and has never been affected by insects or disease. It grows to a height of four feet and will grow in a little space where there would not be room to plant a large tree; price, 20c. each; 3 for 50c. The Otaheite Orange. This wonderful Orange is a regular little dwarf, growing no larger than a good specimen geranium and equally as easy to manage. Incredible as it may seem it hps produced flowers and ripened its fruit perfectly in a two inch pot. Its beautiful blossoms are produced in the greatest abundance, are as fine and large as other Orange flowers and same delicious fragrance. The fruits are about half the size of ordinary oranges with a flavor resembling the Mandarin. Fine mailing plants, large enough to bloom, 20c. each; 3 for 50c.

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