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bushels to an acre. They do not blossom until late in the spring — later 

 than the strawberry — the fruit maturing in from four to six weeks after 

 blossoming — hence they are seldom if ever injured by late frosts in the 

 spring. They are very hardy — having succeeded as far north as Wis- 

 consin and the northern part of Iowa.' An account of methods of culti- 

 vation is then given. ' I shipped some of my dewberries to New York 

 city from this place for which I received sixteen dollars per bushel. I also 

 shipped to Rockford, 111., St. Louis, Mo., and to Independence, Iowa, 

 for which I received twelve dollars and eighty cents per bushel; while the 

 highest price paid for straw-berries did not exceed, on an average, six dollars 

 and forty cents per bushel. I consider the dewberry the most profitable 

 fruit raised.' Mr. Purdy gave roots of this dewberry as a premium to his 

 paper at this time, and among those who obtained it were I. N. Stone, of 

 Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, and Hon. B. F. Adams, of Madison, Wisconsin, 

 the only persons, probably, as Mr. Stone writes me, ' who had stifficient 

 confidence in it to give it a fair trial.' Mr. Stone has made a marked success 

 of its culture, and all the plants set in recent years appear to have come 

 directly or indirectly from him." 



The Bartel, while probably the first dewberry to receive a name, was 

 not the first one to be grown commonly and largely by fruit growers. That 

 honor belongs to Lucretia, long the standard commercial sort and still a 

 favorite. We must again go to Bailey^ for the first fuU historical account 

 of this berry. He says : — 



" The story of its discovery and introduction is told me by B. F. Albaugh, 

 of Covington, Miami Co., Ohio, who introduced it to the trade. A young 

 man named Williams enlisted in the civil war from Miami Co., Ohio. 

 During most of his service he was stationed in West Virginia, part of the 

 time near Beverly. While guarding private property there he became 

 acquainted with the woman who afterwards became his wife. He settled 

 on her plantation after the war, and upon it found the dewberries growing 

 wild. He transplanted some to his garden, and these attracted the atten- 

 tion of his father who visited him in 1875. The following year plants were 

 sent to the father in Ohio and they were distributed among a few friends. 

 The plants were carelessly dug, however, and only five of the genuine 

 variety happened to be in the lot and these, along with many worthless 

 ones, chanced to fall into the hands of Mr. Albaugh. From these five 

 plants the present stock has sprung. When the variety was offered for 

 sale Mr. Albaugh named it Lucretia, for Mrs. Lucretia Garfield. Mr. 

 Albaugh tells me that the five original plants are still vigorous and fruitful. 

 A portion of one of the original plants — about one-ninth of it — was 

 exhibited at the Association of American Nurserymen at Washington in 



' Cornell Sta. Bui. 34:287. 1891. 



