. Catalogue of pedigree plants for season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Nursery stock Connecticut Glastonbury; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CHOICE SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 17 NORTH STAR.—Ttiis famous new Currant from the iar northwest has now been grown by us two years, and we are greatly pleased w ith its wonderful wood growth. And as no currant can be a great cropper that does not annually make plenty of new wood, we are inclined to hare great faith in the statements of the introducers, who say : " We have spent five y
. Catalogue of pedigree plants for season of 1893. Nurseries (Horticulture) Connecticut Catalogs; Nursery stock Connecticut Glastonbury; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CHOICE SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 17 NORTH STAR.—Ttiis famous new Currant from the iar northwest has now been grown by us two years, and we are greatly pleased w ith its wonderful wood growth. And as no currant can be a great cropper that does not annually make plenty of new wood, we are inclined to hare great faith in the statements of the introducers, who say : " We have spent five years in giving ' the north star ' as rigorous a test as the extremes of climate, to be found in a scope of territory ranging from New England to the Rocky moun- tains, would affjrd. It has fully mtt our most sanguine expectations; ani we conscientiously be- lieve the ' North Star' /o be the very best Currant in existence^ The average length of the bunches is four inches; the berries, from a single bunch, thirty is number placed side by side, touchmg, covered a line twelve inches in length : the fruit is superior, very sweet, and rich in quality, firm, a good market berry, desiriible as a dessert fruit in the natural state, and unequaled for jelly. The length and adundance of the clusters make it possible to pick twenty-five per cent, more fruit in the same length of time than from other sorts. What are the claims of the " North Star" ? Extreme hardiness; grows freely from layers or cuttings; early and abundant fruiting and a strong grower. Two year plants, 75 cents each, %% per dozen, ;85o per hundred; one year plants, 50 cents each, per dozen, ^40 per Blackberries are usually grown in rows, six to eight feet apart, with plants two and one-half to three and one-half feet in the row, and allowed to grow so as to form a solid hedge row; how- ever, larger and better fruit and more of it can be grown, and they can be cultivated at less ex- pense, if they are p
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