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Show THE WONDERBERRY OR SUNBERRY Has Proved a Great Success Thousands Thou-sands Say It's the Dest Thing They Ever Grew. The Wonderberry or Stinberry, the marvelous garden fruit originated by Luther rUirbank, and Introduced . by 'ohn Lewis Childs, the -well-known Seedsman of Floral Park, N. Y., has proved a great success all over the country. Thousands of people say It is the best thing they ever grew. Mr. John Burroughs, the well-known uithor, Naturalist and bosom-friend of Theodore Roosevelt, says It is the most delicious pie berry he ever tasted, and a marvelous cropper. A Director of the New York Agricultural Agricul-tural Experiment Station says it fruits abundantly even in pure sand. In tho short season of North-western Canada it !s a godsend, and fruits long after frost has killed most garden truck. D. S. Hall, Wichita, Kan., says thirty people grew it there last season with perfect satisfaction. K. S. Enochs, Hammond, La., says it yields $230 worth of fruit per acre with him. airs. J. H. Powers, 4732 Kenwood avenue, Chicago, raised enough berries on a space 4x10 feet to supply herself and friends. J. P. Swallow, Kenton, Ohio, says its equal for all purposes does not exist Rev. H. B. Sheldon; Pacific Grove, Cal., says he likes the berries served in any and every way. W. T. Davis, Enon, Va., says it n true to description in every way, and fruits in three months from seed. Judge Morrow, of U. S. Circuit Court, says the Wonderberry is simply delicious raw or cooked. Mr. Childs exhibited one plant five months old bearing 10,375 berries which measured about eight quarts. Mrs. Hattie Vincent, Hayden, New Mexico, says it stands the long, hard droughts of that climate and fruits abundantly all summer. It is certainly the most satisfactory garden fruit and the greatest Novelty ever introduced. |