. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants : cultivated for sale at the Great Northern and Southern Garden and Nursery. Nurseries (Horticulture), Delaware, Wilmington, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seeds, Catalogs; Berries, Seeds, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 52 QUEEN OF THE MARKET. The largest, and best productive, hardy red raspberry; flesh firm and deli- cious, carries well and sells better than other varieties in the market, hence its name; color, a beautiful bright red; berries of the largest size, measuring 2%^ and selected specimens 3 inches around. Plant, a st
. Descriptive catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants : cultivated for sale at the Great Northern and Southern Garden and Nursery. Nurseries (Horticulture), Delaware, Wilmington, Catalogs; Fruit trees, Seeds, Catalogs; Berries, Seeds, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs. 52 QUEEN OF THE MARKET. The largest, and best productive, hardy red raspberry; flesh firm and deli- cious, carries well and sells better than other varieties in the market, hence its name; color, a beautiful bright red; berries of the largest size, measuring 2%^ and selected specimens 3 inches around. Plant, a strong, vigorous, healthy grower, 5 to 6 feet high, well covered with tough rich foliage, protecting the fruit and canes from the hot rays of the sun. Have been tested five years without any protection, and not injured by heat^ cold or any defect whatever, although a heavy sleet one winter, lasting two days, near- ly destroyed other raspberries, both red and black. It is a strong grower, and differs from all the other varieties. It throws strong tap roots, which go deep into the ground, which protects the plant from severe heat, or cold and severe drought, while all other varieties have only lateral or surface roots, and easily affected by those changes. As a bearer it is second to none, distributing its fruit nicely through the bush, bearing a large, plump berry; comes off easy ; does not crumble; has a fine flavor and is an excellent Hansell. An accidental seedling, found growing on the farm of the late James S. Hansell, of Burlington county, N. J., a fair grower, berry medium, roundish, color best, productive, flavor Sood. Its main value consists in its extreme earhness,{ripening about ten days before the Brandywine,) and its carrying qualities, it having been shipped over 400 miles in good order. The new raspberry, Marlboro, which is to be offered first to the public in the fall of 1884,—very strong canes, healthy foliage, very productive, berries bright red, earl
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