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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



EARLY HARVEST BLACKBERRY. 



THE EARLY HARVEST BLACK- 

 BERRY. 



The following remarks concerning 

 this new Blackberry are from the pen 

 of Mr. Parker Earle, one of the most 

 extensive small fruit growers of Illinois : 



This new Illinois seedling, or, if you 

 please, "wilding," is attracting a good 

 deal of attention among backberry culti- 

 vators. Having tested it in a small way, 

 and written some words in its favor to 

 the introductor, I am the recipient of a 

 multitude of inquiries concerning its 

 merits. If you will permit me, I will say 

 all I know about it in the Country 

 Gentleman, and so possibly save the 



fraternity of inquirers, and myself too, 

 some trouble. First of all, the Early 

 Harvest is not the same as Brunton's 

 Seedling, another Illinois production, as 

 has been stated in some horticultural 

 papers. The two are much alike as to size 

 of fruit and season of ripening, and also 

 in appearence of the plants, but they are 

 distinctly unlike in their blossoms, the 

 Harvest having perfect flowers, while the 

 Brunton is entirely pistillate, and will not 

 bear a berry without having some good 

 staminate variety planted with it. Both 

 these sorts are very early, but which is 

 first I cannot say, as my experience with 

 the Brunton was terminated some years 

 before the Harvest was sent out. 



