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V. ARE DEWBERRIES WORTH GROWING? 



Nearly five years ago, we published a bulletin (No. 34) upon 

 the dewberry and concluded, from the results of our experi- 

 ments and inquiry, that there is a future for the berry for com- 

 mercial purposes. There was a brisk demand for the bulletin, 

 largely due, it seems, to the novelty of the subject; but it ap- 





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133.— Lucretia dewberries trained to stakes. 



pears to have had comparatively little immediate effect in en- 

 couraging the cultivation of the fruit. The dewberry is so unlike 

 all otlfer small fruits in its habit of growth, that growers seem 

 to be slow to learn how to handle it; and many of them are no 

 doubt prejudiced against it because the species is so common, 

 and often so troublesome, in old fields and vineyards. The rasp- 



