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licious nonalcoliolic beverage, for wliicli pinposc it is now more 

 used than for tlic other i)r()(Iiiets. So far, tlie h)<ianberry is sue- 

 cessfully grown only in parts of California, Oregon and Wash- 

 ington. The plants do not yield to tlie climates and soils of the 

 regions east of the states named, sueeumbing to cold in the North 

 and proving almost barren in the Soutli. 



Variously ealled a blackberry, a dewberry and a hybrid be- 

 tween the western dewberry and a red raspberry, the loganberry, 

 by reason of its trailing canes, and habit of rooting at the tips, 

 is probably best classified with the dewberries, it being, as most 

 authorities now agree, a red-fruited variety of the western dew- 

 berry, R. vitifoUus. The original plant was discovered by Judge 

 J. H. Logan, Santa Cruz, California, in 1881, and was consid- 

 ered a hybrid between the Aughinbaugh dewberry and a red 

 raspberry, a theory untenable in light of recent investigations. 

 Plant and fruit are sufficiently well described in the description 

 of R. vitifoUus, page 186. 



691. Lucretia (Fig. 255) has attained high place because en- 

 dowed with a constitution fitting it for a great diversity of soils, 



and for a range in latitude from the coldest to 

 the warmest in which dewberries can be 

 ■z, -7 \ui NT- \ grown. The plants have the faults of being 

 1/ m\ ^^^v\ susceptible to anthracnose, and of producing 

 ' — /\\\\^^ { many double blossoms with resultant sterility. 

 The quality of the fruit, while not the best, is 

 good, but the large jet-black berries are more 

 inviting in appearance than in taste. The 

 variety was introduced from Ohio about 

 1876. 



Fig. 255. Lucretia. Plants vigorous, trailing, productive, half-hardy, re- 



quiring winter protection; canes slender, long, numer- 

 ous, round, greenish-brown, with strong rather blunt prickles. Leaflets 3-5, 

 sometimes 7, oval, variable in shape, pubescent above and beneath, coarsely 

 serrate. Flowers nearly 2 inches in diameter, 3-5, in short, open, leafy, 

 prickly corymbs. Fruit early midseason, large, cylindrical, tapering slightly, 

 jet-black; core long, conical, soft; drupelets large, round; flesh firm, juicy, 

 sweet, rich ; quality good ; seeds large, soft. 



692. Mayes (Fig. 256). Austin Improved. — Of the many dew- 

 berries and dewberry like brambles m Texas, Mayes is the lead- 



