. Descriptive catalogue and price list : raspberry, blackberry, strawberry plants and grape vines, season of 1901. Nursery stock Michigan Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs. jjg Grand Mere Plant Farms, Stevensville, Mich. 15. SPI/ENDID.— This variety has come to stay. I fruited it last year and it produced an immense crop of medium large berries. It is a wonderful plant maker and stands the drouth exceedingly well. It has perfect blossoms. Season medium. Continues bearing a long time. THE ROUGH RIDER.—I have not fruited this berry only on spring set plants, which had s
. Descriptive catalogue and price list : raspberry, blackberry, strawberry plants and grape vines, season of 1901. Nursery stock Michigan Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Grapes Catalogs. jjg Grand Mere Plant Farms, Stevensville, Mich. 15. SPI/ENDID.— This variety has come to stay. I fruited it last year and it produced an immense crop of medium large berries. It is a wonderful plant maker and stands the drouth exceedingly well. It has perfect blossoms. Season medium. Continues bearing a long time. THE ROUGH RIDER.—I have not fruited this berry only on spring set plants, which had some of the largest aud finest specimens I ever grew. The plant is vigorous and healthy, it was in- troduced last spring by L. J. Farmer of New York, at $12 per 100 or $100 per 1000. Originator's Description—Originated in Oswego county, New York by Chas. Learned, a leading grower of that fa- mous strawberry locality. A seedling of Eureka fertilized by Gandy, prolific runners like Eureka. The individual plant closly resembling the Gandy in leaf and stock. Enormously productive, hardy and free from disease. Ber- ries very large; roundish but elongated, mostly shape of illustration, but some ROUGH rider. flattened and pointed, color dark red like the Gandy. The latest and firmest strawberry in existence; was shipped to New York and Boston in 1899 and sold for nearly double most varieties. Of seventeen crates sold in Boston July 1st, three brought twenty cents per quart and the balance sixteen to eighteen cents wholesale. Although the past season was earlier than usual, good pickings were made till near August 1st. It was shipped without ice July 12 th, 350 miles in an ordinary express car and sold for twelve cents per quart. Its blossom is perfect. "The berries did not reach us until the morning of July 15. They were packed in cotton batting, and sent in small wooden box. When they reached us, they were three days from the vine, and had been two days on the road. It is v
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