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June, 1886. This specimen bore 978 berries. E. Y. Teas, now of Irvington, 

 Indiana, appears to have been the first to figure and offer for sale the 

 Lucretia." 



From time to time other dewberries appeared of greater or less value, 

 but the dewberry remained until the beginning of the present century a 

 suspicious inhabitant of the fruit plantation. Its vicious thorns and 

 unmanageable canes condemned it, and, as with all new fruits, the pre- 

 sumption was against an unfamiliar plant in cultivated grounds, especially 

 when its near of kin have been troublesome intruders from fence rows and 

 forests. And so, although several interesting forms of the common or 

 northern dewberry appeared before 1900, it was not until this date or after 

 that dewberry culture began to take form as one of the small fruit industries 

 of the country. Several quite distinct types now came under ciiltivation, 

 some of which must be mentioned, but the reader must turn to Chapter II 

 on the botany of this fruit for a full list of the species of dewberries now 

 under cultivation. 



The dewberries so far discussed belong to the northern states, or more 

 accvirately the northeastern states and may be roughly lumped into the 

 northern dewberries. About 25 varieties belong here. Perhaps as many 

 more sorts, mostly of comparatively recent introduction, belong to the 

 southern dewberries, and nearly as many more to the western dewberries. 

 The botany of the three groups is little understood. Several species are 

 involved, accounts of which have been given in previous pages. It must 

 suffice here to give a brief sketch of the introduction of a few of the earliest 

 and most prominent varieties from these widely separated parts of North 

 America. 



SOUTHERN DEWBERRIES 



The southern dewberries are for the most part evergreen or nearly so 

 and rather more prostrate than the northern varieties. Bailey names the 

 following dewberries as coming from southern species:' Bauer, Drishill, 

 Eight EUs, Extra, Houston, Howard, Lime Kiln, Long Branch, Lost Ball, 

 McDonald, Manatee, Muchee Grandee, Race Track, Rockledge, Rogers, 

 White (from Louisiana) and Wilson's (from Texas). Of these seventeen 

 southern sorts, only Manatee, McDonald, and Rogers have been tried on 

 the grounds of this Station. No one of the three have been sufficiently 

 hardy, vigorous, or productive to merit recommendation for any purpose 

 in the North. As wiU be seen from the histories in the chapter on varieties, 



' Bailey, L. H. Gent. Herb. 170. 1923. 



