CHAPTER XIV 

 The Loganberry and other Berried Fruits 



DURING recent years the Loganberry has become very popular, 

 and has been widely planted. This is scarcely to be wondered 

 at, for it is particularly easy to grow and invariably bears a 

 good crop of large berries. Though some people like them as 

 dessert fruits, most of us prefer them when cooked or made 

 into jam. The Loganberry is a hybrid between the Raspberry 

 and the Blackberry ; the fruit is similar in appearance to a 

 large Raspberry, but, unlike this fruit, the Loganberry does not 

 part cleanly from the core. The aim of raisers of new berried 

 fruits has been to do away with the hard core of the Logan- 

 berry, and this has been accomplished. 



The latest, and possibly the best, of the comparatively new 

 berried fruits is called the Laxtonberry. This is the result of 

 a cross between the Loganberry and Superlative Raspberry, 

 and the fruits may be pulled off as clean as those of the Rasp- 

 berry. The raisers describe it as an enlarged Raspberry, 

 with the flavour of the Raspberry and the vigour of the Logan- 

 berry. Other modern berried fruits to be recommended are 

 the Lowberry, Newberry, King's Acre Berry, and Hailsham- 

 berry. 



Then there is the Parsley-leaved Blackberry, a splendid kind 

 which bears regularly a heavy crop of large Blackberries of 

 excellent flavour. Even the common Blackberry is worth 

 growing in the garden, providing a good form of it is obtained. 

 The fruits are much finer under cultivation than in the hedgerow. 



All these fruits need similar treatment so far as their cul- 

 tivation is concerned, and that is of the simplest. The best 

 crop and the finest fruits are produced by one-year-old stems ; 

 that is to say, by those that developed during the previous 

 sminn<T. ruining therefore takes the form of cutting out the 

 old branches, those that have borne a crop of fruit, as soon as 

 the fruit is gathered ; the fresh stems of the current season's 



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