VARIETIES OF BLACKBERRIES AND DEWBERRIES 427 



Logan Blackberry, 690 Phenomenal, 693 



Loganberry, 690 Premo, 694 



Lucretia, 691 Primus, 695 

 Mayes, 692 



BLACKBERRIES 



667. Agawam (Fig. 247). — For many years Agawam was the 

 most prized of early blackberries, and it is still widely grown, 

 but not so commonly in commercial planta- 

 tions as formerly. Productiveness of plant 

 and high quality and earliness of fruit are the 

 chief assets. The faults are : the plants suffer 

 from winter-killing and the berries run too 

 small to make the variety wholly satisfactory. 

 The variety originated with John Perkins, 

 Ipswich, Massachusetts, between 1865 and 

 1870. 



Plants of medium size and vigor, productive, up- 

 right-spreading; canes numerous, tender to cold, fur- 

 rowed, dark reddish-brown, covered wdth strong 

 straight prickles. Leaflets 3-5, long, with a tapering 

 apex, very pubescent beneath; margin finely, some- 

 times doubly serrate. Flowers 1 inch across, 12-16, 

 in long open prickly clusters. Fruit early, small, % 

 inch in length, broad-oblong, glossy black; drupelets ^^' ^^'^- Agawam. 

 few, large, round; core white, soft; flesh rather soft, 

 sweet and pleasant; quality very good; seeds of medium size, soft. 



668. Ancient Briton is a prime favorite in northern regions, 

 Wisconsin and Minnesota particularly. The plants are very 

 vigorous, very productive, and the berries are of the best quality. 

 It is an old sort and a well-established standard for commercial 

 plantations. The origin of the variety is uncertain, but it came 

 into prominence in AVisconsin in the sixties of last century. 



Plants medium in size and vigor, very hardy, very productive; canes 

 moderately numerous, roundish, brown, with numerous thick straight 

 prickles. Leaflets 5, palmate, oblong-oval, heavily pubescent above and 

 below; margin serrate and hairy. Flowers li/4 inches in diameter, 16-18, 

 in a long, open, prickly raceme. Fruit medium to late, medium to large, 

 long, rather narrow, tapering, glossy black; core white^ conical, soft; 

 drupelets large, numerous, elliptical; flesh tender, juicy, sweet but sprightly; 

 quality good. 



