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vigorous, upright, unproductive; prickles numerous, strong; fruit small, many berries 

 imperfect, juicy, sweet; good; later than Snyder. 



Lovett. I. A'. Y. Sta. Bui. 63:667. 1893. 



Lovett's Best. 2. Lovett Autumn Cat. 16. 1891. 



Jewett. 3. III. Sta. Bui. 30:325. 1894. 



A chance seedling from New Jersey prior to 1885; introduced in 1891 by J. T. Lovett, 

 Little Silver, New Jersey. At this Station the variety is inferior to standard sorts. Plants 

 tall, vigorous, upright, half hardy, unproductive; canes medium in size, green tinged brown, 

 glabrous; prickles numerous, strong; flowers late; fruit small, irregular, roundish; drupe- 

 lets mediirm in size, many failing to develop, glossy black, juicy, sprightly; fair; core soft; 

 very late. 



Luther, i. N. Y. Sta. Bui. 63:668. 1893. 



A chance seedling foimd on the grounds of R. D. Luther, Fredonia, New York, by 

 whom it was sent to this Station in 1891. Plants vigorous, fairly hardy; fruit of medium 

 size, juicy, nearly sweet; good. 



Lux. I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt. 284. 192 1. 



Offered by W. L. Lux, Topeka, Kansas. Described as very hardy; fruit very large; 

 finest quality; late. 



McCracken. i. Card. Mon. 24:269. 1882. 



Found in the woods near Fulton, Illinois, by a Mr. McCracken. Plants hardy, very 

 productive; fruit large, good: early. 



McDonald. 1. Rural N. Y. 60: s^6. 1901. 2. i?MmZ A/'. F. 73:252, fig. 1914. 3. Ibid. 

 76:419. 1917. 4. Hedrick Cyc. Hardy Fr. 288, fig. 251. 1922. 



McDonald is a blackberry-dewberry hybrid with rather remarkable qualities of 

 both plants and fruits. The plants are very vigorous, remarkably productive, wholly 

 immtme to rust, better able to withstand drought than almost any other bramble, and 

 ripen their crop two weeks before the blackberry season, the first of its kind to bloom and 

 ripen fruit. The canes trail the first season, dewberry-like, but in succeeding seasons send 

 up strong drooping canes partaking more of the blackberry parent. The berries are of 

 largest size, borne in prodigous quantities, jet black and very handsome, among the best 

 in quality, and hang in good condition on the plants for several days after ripening. The 

 variety has one serious fault ; it is self -sterile and must be interplanted with another black- 

 berry or dewberry for a pollinizer. McDonald is not proving of very great value in New 

 York and the East, but is much grown in Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. This blackberry- 

 dewberry hybrid, probably of Texas origin, has been grown in several southwestern states 

 for the past quarter century. In 1909 the American Pomological Society added McDonald 

 to its recommended list of fruits. 



Plants vigorous, spreading and drooping, tender to cold, variable in yield, healthy; 

 canes long, variable in thickness, numerous; leaflets 5, rather small, long-oval, thin, dark 

 green, glossy, with shallowly serrate margins. Flowers early, self-sterile, few, white, in 

 long, open, leafy, slightly prickly clusters; pedicels long, medium in thickness, heavily 

 pubescent, seldom prickly. Fruit very early; large, oblong-conic, jet black; drupelets 



