CHAPTER XXX 



VARIETIES OF BLACKBERRIES AND DEWBERRIES 



Nurserymen offer about a hundred sorts of blackberries and 

 dewberries, but each year sees new introductions of both groups, 

 so that, even with the inevitable discarding of old varieties, 

 there is likely to be an increase from year to year in named 

 sorts. The progeny of at least twelve species are to be found in 

 the cultivated blackberries and dewberries of this continent. 

 These have been crossed and recrossed until it is now quite im- 

 possible to classify varieties with reference to the species from 

 which they came. About all that can be done is to group black- 

 berries in one division and dewberries in another, not an easy 

 task, for the characters of the two fruits in the wild forms 

 intermingle, and by crossing have been further confused under 

 cultivation. It is impossible to separate the varieties sufficiently 

 well from their fruit characters to make a workable key to 

 varieties, as has been attempted for the tree-fruits. 



INDEX TO VAEIETIES OF BLACKBERRIES AND DEWBERRIES 



Blaclcherries Lowherry, 681 



^^„ McDonald, 680 



Agawam, 667 ^.u ao^ 



» • ^ T^ -J. ecQ Mammoth, 681 



Ancient Briton, 668 Mersereau 682 



Atlantic, 669 ' »„ 



-r., , ' , ^^n New Bochdle, 679 



Black Diamond, 669 ' 



T>7 7 T T, ao-i Rathbun, 683 



BlacJc Loganberry, QSl _, . '„, 



■Di a'7rx Snyder, 684 



Blowers, 670 „.-^ ' „ 



^ , ,' aoa Star, 669 



Crananll, 686 _ ' ___ 



Dallas, 671 ^*y'°^V '^ fi«« 



Early Harvest, 672 T,^.f ^ E"l.y, 686 



x^ 1 i^- ano Wilson Early, 687 



Early King, 673 Wonder 669 



Eldorado, 674 ^^ '''''^^''' ^^^ 



Erie, 675 -n i, • 



77 • w ^ ceo Dewoemes 



Ewings Wonder, 669 



Giant Himalaya, 676 Aughinbaugh, 688 



Iceberg, 677 Austin Improved, 692 



Kittatinny, 678 Laxton, 689 



Lawton, 679 Laxtonberry, 689 



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