. 19th annual catalogue : strawberry, raspberry and blackberry plants, choice fowls and eggs, celery plants, Nursery stock Delaware Dover Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. SLAY MAKER & SON', DOVER, DEL "ROUGH ; Originated in Oswego county. New York, by Charles Learned, a leading grower of that famous strawberry lo- cality. A seedling of Eureka fertilized by Gandy. Prolific runners like Eureka; the individual plants closely resembling the Gandy in leaf and stock. Enor- mously productive, hardy and free from disease. Berries very large; roundish but elong
. 19th annual catalogue : strawberry, raspberry and blackberry plants, choice fowls and eggs, celery plants, Nursery stock Delaware Dover Catalogs; Strawberries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. SLAY MAKER & SON', DOVER, DEL "ROUGH ; Originated in Oswego county. New York, by Charles Learned, a leading grower of that famous strawberry lo- cality. A seedling of Eureka fertilized by Gandy. Prolific runners like Eureka; the individual plants closely resembling the Gandy in leaf and stock. Enor- mously productive, hardy and free from disease. Berries very large; roundish but elongated, mostly shape of illustra- tion, but some flattened and pointed. Color dark red like Gandy. The latest and firmest strawberry in existence; | was shipped to New York and Boston in 1899 and sold for nearly double most j varieties. Of seventeen crates sold in > Boston July 1st, three brought twenty cents per quart :md the balance sixteen to eighteen cents wholesale. Although the p;ist season was earlier than usual,good pickings were made till near August 1st. It « a* shipped without ice July 12th, 350 miles in an ordinary express car and sold for 12 c-mts per quart Its blossom is perfect. (Originators description) January 1, 1900. December 17. 1900, Mr. Leonard says: "The Rough Rider surpassed all others here the past season. $1,150 was received from his patch of 2 acres for berries sold in market. Published in Rural New Yorker October 1, 1900. Rough Rider Strawberry.—I visited the home of the Rough Rider straw- berry recently. when they werein full fruit Mr. Leonard had the Glen Mary and Bubach by the side of the Rough Rider, and they were burned to the ground. He said they had no rain since April. The Rough Rider stood up 15 inches high, and as green as 'in May, and loaded with green berriec. He said he picked 40 crates on one day and would pick 50, two days lattr. The R ugh Rider is the coming berry. Charles siddons. Price 75 cents per dozen; $ per 100; $25
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