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Title: Spring 1898 : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries
Identifier: CAT31294428 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Parry's Pomona Nurseries.; Parry, John R.; Parry, William.
Subjects: Nursery stock Prices New Jersey; Nurseries (Horticulture) New Jersey Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Nut trees Seedlings Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Parry, N. J. : Parrys' Pomona Nurseries

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36 PARRYS' POMONA NURSERIES.
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The LOGAN BERRY (Raspberry-Blackberry.) ~ This unique fruit has now been well tested in the Eastern States and proven itself a valuable acquisition to our list of small fruits. It is a seedling from the Aughin- baugh Blackberry, a wild variety, pistillate, of California, crossed or fertilized by pollen of the Red Antwerp Raspberry. The plants are described as unlike either the Raspberry or Blackberry, and are of low growing habit more like the Dewberry, of very large strong canes or vines, without thorns, but have very fine soft spines like those found on Raspberry plants ; leaves of deep green color, coarse and thick, more like those of the Raspberry than Blackberry. The fruit is as large as the largest size Black- berry, is of the same shape, with globules similar to that fruit; color, when fully ripe, a dark rich red. It partakes of both the flavors of the Raspberry and Blackberry, being a combination of the two mixed, a very pleas- ant, mild, vinous flavor delightful to the taste, not found in any other fruit, but peculiar to this alone. It is excellent for the table, eaten fresh or cooked, and for jelly or jams without an equal. The fruit is firm and carries well, seeds small and few. The vines are enormous bearers. Ripening very early—beginning with Straw- berries and the bulk or nearly all ripe and gone before Raspberries become plentiful, ren- dering it a very valuable fruit for market. Genuine stock very limited. Beware of seed- lings offered by some. JPrice, by mail, postpaid, 10 cents each ; $1.00 per dozen; $7.50 per 100; $50.00 per 1,000. THE JAPANESE WINEBERRY. There have been few novelties introduced in this country that are more interesting \ox beautiful in their way than the Japanese Raspberry, brought out recently under the name of Wineberry. It originated from seed sent home by Prof. Georgeson, late of the Imperial College of Agriculture, Tokio, Japan, and gathered by him from a plant growing in a wild state on the mountains of that country. The canes of this interesting plant are large, robust and entirely hardy here ; they are thickly covered with purplish red hairs, which extend along the stem to the extremity. The leaves are large, tough, dark green above and silvery grey beneath. Each berry is at first tightly enveloped by the large calyx, forming a sort of burr, which is also covered with purplish red hairs so thickly as to present the appearance of a moss rosebud. These gradually open and turn back, expos- ing the fruit in all its beauty. The berries are of medium size as compared with our rasp- berries, but of a beautiful, translucent ap- pearance, running through all the shades of amber to crimson as they ripen. There is a freshness and brilliancy about them impossible to describe and we know of nothing in the w&y of rasberries so attractive. A bush in full fruiting is a sight not readily to be for- gotten and a decided ornament to the gar- den. In quality it is good, with a rich and sprightly flavor, but decidedly brisk sub-acid. When cooked it is simply grand, surpassing by far, when canned, the huckleberry and all other small fruits. Season of ripening early in July. ~Pvice9 mail or express, strong, well-rooted plants, 10 cents each; 50 cents (per dozen; $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 4,000.

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